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Game-development on Compaq iPaq

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-i-take-snes9x-on-the-road-yet dept.

kilaasi writes "Some hard-core game-developers from Finland is making super-optimized games for the iPaq and similar devices, tweaking and tuning every bit of piece there is. These are old Commodore and Amiga-programmers that know the virtues of small-is-beautifull."

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  1. Uhm... by Bob+McCown · · Score: 5, Funny
    These are old Commodore and Amiga-programmers that know the virtues of small-is-beautifull."

    I keep telling my sweetie that, but she doesnt believe me.

  2. Yeah, but... what about the buttons? by cd_Csc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's great that they're doing this - it will certainly allow for some cool games in the future, but not quite yet... the iPaq has a hardware "feature" that prevents programs from detecting simultaneous usage of more than one button. Nothing sucks more than having to stop moving so you can shoot or jump. To counter this, developers have built "virtual buttons" that appear on the touch screen, but this takes up alot of the already limited screen realty. Plues, its hard to get used to not having the underappreciated tactile feedback of physical buttons.

  3. nothing "small" about an iPaq by mj6798 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Small is beautiful"? These people are programming a machine with a 200MHz RISC chip with 32Mbytes of memory. That isn't small, that's high-end desk-top performance of a few years ago.