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Java for the Gameboy Advance

Posted by Hemos on from the flash-roms-r0x0r dept.

heavy writes "For everyone who is wondering what else they can do with their newly purchased Gameboy Advance SP comes JAMiD - Java Action Media Interactive Device. What is it? "The aJile Systems JAMiD JAM-ID100C cartridge will turn your Nintendo® Game Boy Advance or Game Boy Advance SP system into a jammin' Java interactive gaming machine capable of playing those free Java games popping up all over the Internet. Based on Sun Microsystem's J2ME Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), the JAMiD accelerated Java platform will run MIDP 1.0/2.0 games and other multimedia MIDlets." It can also play MP3s...a developer version available now and a consumer version is coming soon. Way cool."

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  1. J2ME by FortKnox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    J2ME has become extremely popular with most handheld devices. Most new PDA's and Mobile Phones contain some variation of the J2ME. So if you are an ambitious entrepreneur (maybe dreaming of getting into the gaming industry?), J2ME may be your ticket. J2ME (IIRC) comes with J3D (at least it does in the Zarus), so there is a lot you can do with it.

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  2. Pretty nice by shayborg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have doubts about the actual utility of this sort of thing for something like PDA functionality, just because the GBA is really not designed for text manipulation. Games could be cool, though ... I'd love to play that Java Qix game I found the other day on my Game Boy. :-)

    -- shayborg

  3. Re:Not just games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    And why put games on a mobile phone - phones are for phoning, and consoles are for gaming. All these people are just wrong! Stop it! Stop playing games on your phone and make some phone calls!

  4. Advertisment by LS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This story smacks of advertisement. Who uses "jammin" as slang, except for copy writers and advertising executives?

    LS

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