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Emulate Nintendo on Your MessagePad

Posted by pudge on from the yes-that-nes dept.

Green and Geeky writes "That Marvel of a PDA, the Newton MessagePad, has always been a good product. It does a lot of things: plays MP3s, connects to the Internet wirelessly, can be used to bludgeon someone, fits in your pocket (if you're a giant), etc. Now, it plays Nintendo games. Strange, yes, but still pretty cool. I can't play Legend Zelda, Final Fantasy, or Dragon Warrior on my Palm V." And I don't need to waste money on a Game Boy Advance!

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  1. Bandwidth Fun by TPIRman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Newtendo has hit the big times! However, earthlink just let me know that if I get much more traffic this month, I'm gonna be shut down until next month.

    Well, it was nice knowing you.

    1. Re:Bandwidth Fun by sYn+pHrEAk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nintendo does not profit from people buying their 15 year old games from a thrift store, either.

    2. Re:Bandwidth Fun by shepd · · Score: 2, Funny

      >Nintendo does not profit from emulation of their games.

      They don't profit from it, and they don't have to pay for the advertising.

      Seems like quite the synergy to me!

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  2. Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most Slashdotters are too young to remember the NES

    1. Re:Amazing by stonebeat.org · · Score: 5, Funny

      the old Slashdotters never left the slashdot.org. They were just modded down.
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    2. Re:Amazing by Monkelectric · · Score: 4, Funny

      Aye, but some of us don't need to emulate as we still have them :)

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    3. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In my day, we didn't have fancy consoles with DVDs, pretty colors and 64bit 3D graphics. We had 8 colors, all em' shades of green! and a controller with 1 button that would only go right but that didn't matter cause everything on screen was just a undecipherable blob ... and thats the way it was and we liked it!

    4. Re:Amazing by jefdiesel · · Score: 5, Funny

      Most slashdotters are too young to remember The Newton

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    5. Re:Amazing by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm not dead yet! I feel happy! I feel happy! [thwack!]

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  3. Re:MIRROR by chrisopherpace · · Score: 3, Funny

    actually, if you substitiute 127.0.0.1 for hnsg.net, it doesn't have to resolve, and you can attack hnsg.net faster, without putting a load on your DNS server. ;)

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  4. Re:Emulate Nintendo on Your MessagePad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You must be new.

    Welcome to Slashdot.

    Around here, people do things just to SEE if they're possible.

  5. Re:Anyone figured out how to... by FortissimoWily · · Score: 3, Funny

    " ...install Newton OS on an iPaq?

    The iPaq's with ARM chips are basically a Newton with a color screen and more memory. Then we really wouldn't need a GBA."
    Well, you wouldn't need a GBA or anything related to it in this instance anyway - the article is about a NES emulator. ;)

  6. Re:This begs the question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    So why'd they discontinue it?

    Maybe they were ahead of their time there too?

  7. Re:Anyone figured out how to... by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The iPaq's with ARM chips are basically a Newton with a color screen and more memory. Then we really wouldn't need a GBA. "

    A small handful of people who are willing to go with inadequate controls rejoice!!

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  8. Re:A Compact Mac in the Palm of your hand... by mekkab · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, the chip on my visor (Motorola Dragonball) uses the same/similar 68000 machine language (upto mac plus had the 68000). So you can port your assemblt skills for cracking^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H programming.

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  9. Wasted moolah by thehomeland · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I don't need to waste money on a Game Boy Advance!

    Or on a Palm V! I have a spiral notepad and a pencil stuck through the wire. The nub on the end of the wooden stylus acts as a special deleting function, and text is automatically saved into the new-age graphite-wood memory system. Guaranteed never to crash.

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