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X-Forge 3D Engine Arrives

Posted by timothy on from the tiny-tiny dept.

suhit writes "Infosync is reporting in this article that Fathammer has finally launched its X-Forge 3D Engine. The screenshots on Infosync are amazing, plus this means that researchers out there can finally port Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash style Metaverse to a handheld device."

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  1. Amazing? by CounterZer0 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe it was just REAALY bad compression, but those screenshots looked like crap compared to...just about any commercial 3d engine - they looked very 'unsmooth' and 1997'ish.

    1. Re:Amazing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      put any commercial 3d engine on PDA :-) oh wait, this is the one you can do that with.. no unreal or doom3 for you

  2. Worse than Doom? Hardly. by yerricde · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By amazing, you mean, "worse than Doom?"

    You can't expect Doom 3 on a handheld machine. The best you can do on a handheld with a 16.8 MHz ARM7TDMI processor is Doom 1 at 120x120 pixels and 15 to 20 Hz.

    The screenshots of the X-Forge demos look vaguely like those of Sega's Virtua games: simple maps, ok character models, few textures. But it looks good for a handheld.

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  3. Seems damn good to me! by abdulla · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You all seem to forget that this is aimed at things less powerful than the Sharp Zaurus, I've never seen such wonderdul graphics on a Gameboy Advance or a mobile phone before, the pictures at the bottom of this page look pretty damn good to me!

  4. Re:Should I be impressed? by lahna · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doom and quake both look like crap and run like crap on Pocket PC (ok, doom runs some 10-15 fps, but it still isn't real 3d). Don't buy everything that's been told to you. And x-forge runs fast, at least it did when i tried their first technology demo.