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id Games for Linux PDAs

Posted by michael on from the thumb-callus dept.

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..."

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  1. Games? by pi+radians · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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!

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    1. Re:Games? by thenerd · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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.


      Simcity 2000 is out for the Pocket PC's (2002 and the prior version), this include Casio E115, E125, EM500, E200, all modern IPAQ's, Toshiba, NEC, and @migo devices. And it only needs 4 megs to run!

      If you want to see screenshots of this badboy, check this.

      It doesn't list Linux as a compatible OS, I know some of you folks of Linux on an Ipaq - will this get you to change back?

      thenerd.

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  2. iPAQ Quake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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 ?

    blakespot

  3. As far as the Sharp, that's a developer model... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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! ;-)