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id Games for Linux PDAs
Bill Kendrick writes: "Thanksgiving was a great day for Linux PDA gaming. Not one, but two classic id games were ported to not one, but two different Linux PDAs! Quake (screenshots) is available for the Sharp Zaurus and the original Wolf3D is out for the Agenda VR3. Now if only they could do Unreal Tournament over IR ports..."
So, just how much memory does Quake use?
http://www.thehungersite.com
Those messages about low memory are a bit distracting when fragging.
----------- destroy evil immediately!
Now I can waste time even when I'm not at work.
'til i saw the screenies... Half are marked:
Memory is VERY low, please end this application immediately
Not too impressive, yet anyway.
put the what in the where?
And don't forget that the best game of all times (with Civilization) : Commander Keen has been ported to Game Boy Color :-)
Trolling using another account since 2005.
What other games would you guys (and gals) like to see?
SimCity, Civilization and maybe even Starcraft would be a lot of fun. Imagine sitting in a meeting and instead of taking notes on your PDA you're building your empire.
It would be great!
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
It's a North American holiday
Here's some shots of Quake on my iPAQ:
http://www.blakespot.com/ipaqquake/
...but will they port it to the iPod: http://www.ipodhacks.com ?
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I'm not willing to pay for that. If it was a Gameboy Advance game with improved graphics maybe but not for a GBC game.
True warriors use the Klingon Google
"shopping" is a good one too
I've been swashdotted -- Elmer Fudd
This sounds great, but what about controls? There is a big possibility if you use the stylus, your screen will get scratched up. I, personally, would rather have a neat screen rather than games unless it was a dedicated games PDA (which seems crazy).
Here is a basic breakdown of Thanksgiving.
In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
done that...
.pak files, and d'ya know how big those friging paks are ??? Flash memory doesn't grow on trees...
I tried quake for the iPaq version of qpe. it needs the
What ? Me, worry ?
This is way off-topic, but is anyone besides me having wacko problems with slashdot? OSDN bar not disappearing, cant log in, none of the perl seems to work, etc etc???
Which has less (32MB) RAM than what is expected for the consumer version (64MB). Of course no specs are out, so the real thing may be different. I would wonder if usage of CF or SD storage would alleviate some of that.
;-)
Way cool shitter toy if you ask me--playing Quake beats the pants of the newspaper any day!
What do you do if you don't have a successful harvest?
All the best,
--Bob
It should be "Memory is very low", or even better "The system is low on memory" or something.
It's important to have well written error messages, otherwise Linux will always appear unprofessional.
What do you do if you [Canada] don't have a successful harvest?
Thats easy! They blame Quebec.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Thank you.
It means "thanks for giving us all your land". Some people call it SorryTaking, as in "sorry for taking all your land". Both refer to the taking of the land formerly owned by Indians by the evil White People.
You have to be competent enough to know what the bug is before you can fix it. Also it doesn't help that Perl is a write only programming language.
Hmmmmm, those commerical alternatives are starting to look better all the time!
When you needed the latest PC (1500$ aprox) to run quake? However I think that a GameBoy Color should be great with this games
There's already Quake, Doom, a GameBoy, a NES and a SNES emulator for WinCE.
Drop your PDA in the toilet, and you'll be wishing you had been reading the paper...
Lesson 1: Assume the position!
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/handheldquake
Also an incomplete web page for the project is here:
http://handheldquake.sf.net/
The idea is the source code will be able to be compiled conditionally for many different handheld platforms.
The current ipkgs should work not only on the sharp zaurus device but also should work on recently compiled versions of Qt Palmtop on iPAQs.
Packages are at:/
http://qpe.sourceforge.net/packages/ipaq/unstable
Installation instructions from Joris on the sharp-linux@yahoogroups.com mailing list:
RegardsJohn R
Considering its based on the very first settlers, we dont tend to think of harvests that way anymore. They relied on the harvest to live for the year and it was usually a close call if they got enough food from it. Thus, if it was a good harvest it was celebrated by giving thanks. Im not sure where the turkey part came from, but I guess that is when turkeys are generally ready for slaughter and thats what they ate.
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
But my MICROSOFT POCKET PC doesn't give me any Memory errors when I play Quake on it.
Personally, I take my palm with me every time to catch up on some reading. Oh, the joy of reading e-books while grunting out loud!
i remember the reason i bought a $1500 p166 setup, and it was to play quake.
When the pionneer were starving during the discovery of the north american continent, some native americans helped them by giving them food (turkey I guess) and saving their life. So they killed all native americans, stayed there and they are thanking god every year since then.
Wrong! We blame JonKatz.
Yeah, we sure showed those damn redskins good. Of course, now they get all the booze :/
I guess the moral is to always finish what you start.
What do you do if you don't have a successful harvest?
Same thing we always do:
1) Bitch about the how government income support for farmers isn't enough
2) fill out our NISA forms. (goverment hand-out forms for farmers who have a bad year)
3) spend the winter in florida
Mister_IQ
Good to see my port of Quake (Pocket Quake) made it to Linux! I wonder if the onscreen MLOOK controls were preserved? That is what really makes it playable, especially on hardware like the iPaq with the hardware button limitation. Did you also preserve my zlib gzip pak file compression? Very useful on these devices with limited storage capacity.
I didn't see a link for the pak file, but you can get it from the url below my sig. The Pocket Quake forum contains over 10k of posts discussing Pocket Quake, including custom maps designed to increase the FPS on hardware without native floating point capability.
Dan East
pocketquake@pocketmatrix.com
quake.pocketmatrix.com
You can get the shareware pak file from the Pocket Quake website:
quake.pocketmatrix.com
Several custom levels have also been created specifically for Pocket Quake which substantially increases the FPS. These are all Deathmatch maps, designed for multiplayer over the network, or with bots. Pocket Quake, which this port is based on, does have full TCP/IP (actually it's just IP) network support, but I don't know if that made it into this linux port.
Dan East
It must be true--/. mods really ARE on crack.
linux is too political.
funny that the screenshots are in colour. I don't believe there's an Agenda VR3 with a colour display?
God, what is it with you clowns and Linux? If Linux was so damn superior, then why isn't it more widely used? Why is it so $%(*$# hard to get running? Y'all hate MS so much, I bet more than half of you read this thing with IE. Shut yer damn pie-holes, ya hypocrites!
Of course, the Somalians' access to information is worthless when compared to to Yanks' "safety." Sigh.. let's just abandon all our principles (i.e. free speech, freedom itself) to save them. That's the way to go, for sure!
If you didn't think that was sarcasm, it was.
"Caffeine is not an option. Caffeine is a way of life."
Oh.
I've never seen anyone with a wince box. Plenty of Palms and the occasional Atari Portfolio but never a wince, Maybe it's just in GB. Or maybe it's because wince/pocket pissy is as fast as a doormat on jellies.
Lucius Sour
If they could just do an Unreal Tournament which works on a recent version of linux *at all*...
I think it might have worked ages ago, but us recent users have had no chance...
Smid