Dreadling Released

halxd2 writes: "Dreadling has finally been released. It's like Quake for Palm. The site says Handspring is not working yet, but they promise to work on it. This is really fun. The shareware version plays very well on my Palm III. I think I'll be buying more batteries."

Comments

Works on Visor and Download link

[doomy]

Hello,

I can confirm that this works fine on my Visor Delux. Very nice. Indeed, small and fast.

You can download it off Palm Gear

PS: Would be nice if the author included a mini-icon (I use launcher3)
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OK, funny, but there is a grain of truth

[guran]

The whole point of a plam as opposed to a Pocket PC (sooner or later MS *will* make something that works) is simplicity.

If games above the level of solitaire becomes common, the handhelds will get caught in the same "upgrade every year, forget compatibility" spiral as the PC.

It will be all fun and games, but I'll miss the days, when you simply pressed the green button and made a note, instead of waiting for a reboot (checking sound card... done, checking 3D accellerator,... )

Oh *Great*

[PopeAlien]

As if I don't waste enough time on my palm throughout the day.. 20 or so Websites on Avantgo, Solotaire, and now this..

I'm gonna have to go back to pencil & paper..

This is an unGodly "innovation"

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one am dead set against this kind of thing appearing on this sort of machine. The Palm Pilot and other machines of its type are meant as tools for increasing our productivity, not for wasting time gaming. The time that we do not spend glorying God and all of His works is time that we should be spending working, not "playing", an activity which encourages sin and leads to damnation.

People that pervert Godly tools like this into machines which allow Satan to corrupt us through the unclean ethics inherent in "games" are themselves tools of the Devil, and we should rid ourselves of them at any cost in order to save the fabric of our society from the ravening hordes of darkness which threaten to overwhelm it.

dreadling is dreadful

[tuffy]

Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I didn't keep it on my Palm very long. The refresh rate of the LCD screen just isn't there, the only way to tell if you're shooting is to watch the ammo gauge decrease and the only way to tell if you're doing damage is when your enemy explodes. I won't even get started on the nasty Palm buttons for control.

Dreadling is an interesting maze demo and the 3D effect isn't half bad, but I can't imagine playing it for any length of time without getting a massive headache.

ahhh

[jbarnett]

You know the stock market crash everyone has been hyping about, it is coming, and this is going to be a big part of it. Think about, all the tech stocks are over rated, now we call all these people in the tech market playing quake say "Yea, I will get right on it, first though I must FRAG some people in my address book, I mean call some people in my address book about venture captial... yea that's the ticket"

Seriously though, quake on the palm, this is cool and all, but seriously do you have a Quake tic-tac-toe game in your paper address book?

If I had a palm though, I would be so totally on this man.

It would be cool to fit the palm into the Game Boy market, it is small, portable and can do a lot more than the gb, just wondering which one has the most cpu crunching power, palm? How are the displays on the palms?

Physical UI Problems

[algae]

In general, I've had problems with just about every PalmOS game that uses the buttons as an interface. They're just way too slow. If you compare the tactile response on a GameBoy pad versus the Pilot, you'll notice that you can get a lot better reaction times on the GB. Also, the layout of the buttons on the Pilot is truly dreadful for gaming; I can't even really play tetris.

What would be a welcome piece of hardware for people who are really serious about this would be a gamepad that plugs into the serial port. But at that point, you may as well just get a GameBoy.

Is this really that impressive?

[Raptor CK]

OK, OK, so I know I'm setting myself to lose some karma, get marked as a troll, etc...

But seriously, It's not Quake. It's not even DOOM. It's Wolf3d. Orthogonal 8-foot-thick walls, no height differences... It's the engine used on a 286 back in the day. Granted, it could be countless fun, but even that's a problem.

I'm on my second warranty-covered Palm V, and I just had a repeat of my old problem. The app buttons come loose far too easily. Play too much of this, or Reptoids, or any other shooter for the Palm, and your Palm V is almost guaranteed to get a button (or two) loosened up.

And forgive me for sounding a tad jaded, but wasn't this also shown off on the TI-85 calculator as the Daedalus engine? Nearly acceptable framerates there, too, and that's a Z80 at around 6MHz or so, and only 32K of RAM.

Lots of fun to be had, but it's a little overhyped, and well... it's been done. Now, when that OpenGL setup for the Palm can handle a true Quake clone, I'll be all over that. This is just proving that a Palm can do something that it's had the horsepower for since greyscale was first hacked.

Just my $0.02. Moderate at will.
Raptor