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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. WOW! by dirtfirst · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Now I can waste time even when I'm not at work.

  2. Related... by mirko · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.
  3. Controls? by doofsmack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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).

  4. Source code by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Source code for this version can be found here:
    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:

    install the small qpe-quake_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk file like you'd normally do. (The following can be done on your desktop) Now, rename the big qpe-quake-data_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk to qpe-quake-data_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk.tar.gz, and extract it: tar zxvf qpe-quake-data_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk.tar.gz You'll get control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz Somehow get data.tar.gz to you CF (/mnt/CF), for example using ftp or SCP Open a terminal and move the file to your CF: mv data.tar.gz /mnt/cf extract the file tar zxvf data.tar.gz there should be a directory structure like: opt/QtPalmtop/quake/.... create a symlink, so quake knows where it's data is: ln -s /mnt/cf/opt/QtPalmtop/quake /opt/Qtpalmtop/ For questions, please visit #zaurus on irc.openprojects.net
    Regards
    John R
  5. Pocket Quake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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