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Doom Ported to Nokia phone
HellKrisp writes "UK based game developers WildPalm have released a port of id software's Doom for the Nokia 7650. Features of the port include audio support and bilinear filtering. The download weighs in at around 1.5MB as it is just the shareware version featuring only the first episode. The port was made using the source code publicly released by id software in 1997."
Now people can kill people while driving while using their phones... ...
Wait a minute..
Computational Madness in a round package.
to drive-by shooting. :)
This seems like the a great port for multiplayer reasons, but that's not mentioned anywhere on the page.
I guess modem play wouldn't work? Hmm... Well there has to be some way to port the multiplayer. Whether people would want to burn up their minutes to kill their friends on their phones is another story (I would)
So when can I play my Doom III pre-alpha on one of these things?
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Now when some business exec goes on an office rampage, the media can blame the Doom port on his cellphone!
You were bored so you decided to do some kung fu.
I'm can now imagine some guy running around with a gun shooting people, then the sprint guy comes up and goes:
You were bored, so you decided to play a little doom.
I bet that'll be a BIG hit in Columbine. </sarcasm>
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I was content with snake and memory on my phone. Now it's just not going to be the same knowing that a classic FPS can be played on a cell phone!
Heh, enable bluetooth or something similar and play multiplayer with the guy sitting next to you in the airport or something.
I still wish I had a port of the Gameboy version of Tetris on my phone music and all.
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3 Additional Game Modes:
Chainsaw Massacre, Killer Arsenal, God Mode
Quick Reset, when not enough memory is available
heh, i bet the Quick Reset feature was easy to implement :)
Anyone know? It's sweet if playable, but no fun if killing batteries for 1 fps.
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Id Software also released the source to Doom';s 1&2, Quakes 1&2, and i believe Wolfenstien. This is why i want to go ahead and pay full price for Id Software. You can almost call their business a sucessful open source model.
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Ten dollars isn't a lot of money, but then again Doom is an old game, and all you get for the $10 is an upgrade with better rendering. I'd think they'd do better just charging $10 up front. Also, is this a port of the GPL code base, or did they actually pay iD for a non-GPL code license?
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I hope it takes advantage of vibrate mode to further enhance play.
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To begin with, I hate entering text in phones. For me to have any fun playing Doom, I'll have to press 444 3 3 77 3 to start off with, and then 444 3 55 333 2 repeatedly thereafter. No thanks.
Can you frag me now? Good!
How legit is this? I mean, the port is fine, but they are charging for the "update". Yes, id software released the source code, but is this allowed? (Did they release it under GPL or some other license?)
Also, I'm assuming they're distributing the original binary data for the levels (is THAT allowed?) yet at the bottom they urge you to buy the original version of Doom if you like the software. huh??
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oh yeah, i'm here, where are you?
what the hell was that bob?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Can you play doom on Emacs ?
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
I ported Wolf 3D to my blender. You gotta use the blender settings for moving and shooting, but it's all good.
When the cyber demon enters the room, the blender goes into overdrive. It's insane. Toss some fruits in at the same time and by the time your game is over you got yourself a nice shake. Have it for breakfast, lunch, and then a sensible dinner and your on your way to losing weight and feeling great--just ask Tommy Lasorda.
And, I always lost at "thumbs" games when I was a kid.
It sucks being thumb-challenged as the cool gadgets get smaller and smaller.
first is was tunnels and static
then roaming charges and digital loss
now getting fragged by a cyberdemon on the I5
I wonder in punching in `idbeholdf' will drop long distance charges?
Doom was actually earlier ported to a Nokia phone, namely the Communicator 9210. There was also a C64 Emulator available to Communicator, which might be a lot cooler and have an endless amount of classic games.
Unfortunately I had an earlier 9110 model of Communicator, but it had a cool emulator for old Infocom text adventure games as well as Space Invaders.
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Never mind that your spiteful little snipe is pretty poorly considered: the Quake II source is hardly obsolete - even Doom represents a very viable platform for game development (as I think the topic article demonstrates, no?). Besides, if anything you should praising Id's code release policy. First, games aren't apps with "essential functionality" (even Stallman has a hard time getting worked up over game code), so the concerns that prompted the development of the GPL are really not even applicable here. Second, unlike, say, Sun or IBM, Id's divulgence of its code is an act of pure magnanimity to students and entry level developers - that is, truly in the spirit of free software. By contrast, the typical poster boys like Sun and IBM are quite unabashed in their use of the GPL for purely self-interested reasons, usually screwing with Microsoft a bit or reducing their total cost of development for server systems.
This shows why it wasn't smart for ID software to GPL outdated software, suddenly a new low-end market evolves and the software isn't outdated any more.
So what? I don't ever remember reading John Carmack saying "We're releasing the Doom source because we don't think we can squeeze another drop from this cash-cow's tits" -- It was released because they were more-or-less done with it and wanted to share. Fast-forward to today with tons of loyal fans (both users and developers) and the cash to back it up, and I'm not sure it's wise to doubt whether or not the move was "smart".
Of course if Id wants to say "Hey, we see a potential market for DoomIII on biotech implant PDAs in about fifteen years, so we have no plans on releasing the source," that's fine too.
Or, you could just be trolling and I've wasted my breath.
Neo enters the subway car and grabs a window seat.
Pulls his Nokia 7650 out of his pocket.
Pulls out mono headphones and jacks them into the phone.
Pulls out a bluetooth optical mouse.
Opens trenchcoat and pulls out a bluetooth keyboard.
Takes off his sunglasses
Proceeds to play a single player 1993 vintage 2.5D first person shooter on a 2 inch screen.
Hmmm, I don't think it looks cool and it sure doesn't sound like fun.
"Can you hear me now? BITCH?!?!"
evil adrian
Cell phones are going to become too smart for us one day, and it will end up being a Matrix type scenario. The phones will use really loud ring tones to destroy us. We will have to make a resistance group, and have Arnold travel back in time. And it will be the fault of Doom on cell phones.
Nokia is launching a new phone with the same operating system as the 7650, but shaped like a portable gaming console.
I'm not really impressed by any phone these days (wasn't we supposed to replace them all with 3G any day now?) but once in a while Nokia strikes the jackpot. Check out the 6800 phone with revolutionary keyboard-thingie. If it does run with the Symbian OS, I think it really could bring your PDA needs to your pocket.
First of all, even laptops batteries don't last more than a couple of hours. And I'm sure if a Doom fanatic sits playing it on cell (don't bother whether he can distinguish guns) he wouldn't get away from it atleast for next couple of hours. Well the battery dies and guess what, he would be actually waiting for a call from an interviewer or whether his wife is in labor yet.
The next step would be obviously to stream movies... Well I've seen some models which can handle videos. Seriously, I cannot watch a movie on my 17'' monitor without complaining, how desperate can people can get to watch and play on the go. So far, wireless hasn't caught up like in Japan just becoz most people feel that this is quite unimportant.
I'd say better make those networks and services better so that atleast people can hear "old movies" and not "monkey with cold". Games and movies on cell phones might sound good but practically I find them waste of time and resources.
This phone should make controlling easier:
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Now, Nokias run the same game at adequate speed. Shouldn't I conclude the graphics and cpu capabilites equal those of my old desktop?
Too big to fail? Does that make me to small to succeed?
... will be to port Blue Max to American Standard's new digital toilet. BOMBS AWAY!
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Well, it's not too bad - certainly playable, although I couldn't get the sound to work. The catch is that it requires so much damn memory to run that you have to shut down *every* application on the phone, and free up as much memory as possible. So while it's installed, you can't even add addresses.
Not worth it for me, but it's a nice gimmick. Shows what these devices are capable of if they had at least a little bit more memory in - 4MB isn't enough, are you listening Nokia? ;)
Smegma.
I think the game was called 'Stuntman' - Maybe a 2D top down view conversion based on the 3D PS2 game?
Maybe a motorola phone?
I was reading somewhere that a lot of the new generation of mobiles use the same or a similar processor to a GameBoy Advance - so it should be easy to run the same kinds of games on them.
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I have this on the Nokia 9290 Communicator. I was completely blown away by the fact that it plays better than on my first desktop. It makes any boring meeting/seminar/family event a thing of the past when you know you can just find a seat and whip out your phone. From what I've heard, its fully capable of multiplayer as well (even between PC and Phone), but I have not tried it.
They're attacking this from the wrong direction.
Small, handheld game systems already exist. Downsize a GBA by 10%, and put the phone bits inside one of those, instead of trying to futz a screen into a current phone.
A Nokia/GameBoy would bring a whole lot of advantages. Current userbase, a lot of existing games, better graphics.
I had a 386 computer. It played, but often enough I had to hit F5 (turn down detail) or lower the screenres a bit. Now they can play this thing on a phone? What exactly is the PC equivilency in the phones (CPU, RAM, etc)?
While I'm not about to upgrade to a new phone just to play doom... I might keep it in mind when the next time to upgrade comes (as long as the phone is also a good phone).
Some problems (forgive my pessimism)
Once cellular-multiplayer versions of popular games comes out, I think that the cell phone companies are going to have some problems with plans like "Unlimited Evenings and Weekends". Airwaves in certain areas could very well start to get congested (as it is, I often cannot call out if I'm in a big city near a special event such as the yearly fireworks show, too many people on the phone).
The local phone company actually snipped their "unlimited long-distance" plan to X-hundred minutes because of a problem in small cities. Residents would wait until weekends or after 7 to dial the nearest big city where there were "free internet" providers, and hog the lines until early morning hours doing downloads. I can forsee the same issues with cells and games, etc, and you get a whole bunch of people constantly online playing doom or Tetris.
That day might be a ways away, but it is still a good possibility.
As cool of a hack as this is, why bother to do a port to a cellphone. Surely they could have gotten better performance by doing new coding to simulate the same game play. Thats the reason games aren't ported to ti calculators, they are rewritten clones of the original games.
You'll hear this:
"To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero."
As it is, now people are playing Doom again, and talking about Id, so it really is like free advertisement. I'd say it's actually helping them more than if they'd kept it locked up all these long years.
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I've got a Ericsson T68i ..., any chance of me being lucky?
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I want to play too
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Sigh..and when will the USA be supported with all these cool new phones
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