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Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens
FlavorFlav writes "The PalmInfocenter has more information
out about the Palm Gameboy emulator project here. The EMU now
runs Tetris, with screenshots! A beta release is expected soon. If you want some background
info on the palm GB emu project see this article that broke the story. "
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Plus it's cheaper than the Palm, but still fits in your pocket.
The CE PDAs have been doing this for over a year, and the newer color ones like the E100, Aero, etc emulate the COLOR GameBoys. Why bother with a crummy B&W Palm?
I don't mean to be negative, but how do we know that this guy even has this thing actually running and there's just some basic photoshop work behind the screen shots. I really don't mean to down play this, if he has it working I think that's great but without a public beta who knows.
I'm all for retrogaming and emulators, but I don't like the idea of an emulator that has virtually of all the merits of a currently available commericial product it emulates. Even if relatively little money will be lost due for the game makers and Nintendo due to CE/Palm GB emulators, it's just bad in principle. I don't think these emulators can be a good thing for the emulation community in general. But maybe it won't have an affect. It's not like the IDSA has ever required a good reason to shut down any site with content they've objected to before.
body parts are trademarked? these IP and related
laws are just getting sIcK!
I'm sorry to say this, because I love my Palm III, but as a gaming platform, it really sucks. I mean, I like spades and chess and stuff like that, but action games suffer under the quality of the display and the buttons. The display doesn't work well for animation, the LCDs just don't cycle fast enough, so you get trails and blurriness for moving objects. The buttons were designed to not be pressed accidentally when you put this thing in your pocket, so they're not really the best for giving you good tactile feedback that they've been pressed. I mean, pressing it once is great for launching an application, but for fine maneuvering a spaceship that you can't see well on the screen when it moves anyway, is just not a pleasurable experience. I think it's really cool that handhelds are becoming so flexible that you can do anything with them, from personal organizer to web browser, to game machine, but the Palm has some design issues you just can't code around.
Wince? don't even go there. My Boss showed me his Wince machine, all the cool gadgets, the fact that it's got way more memory, built in modem, PCMCIA card slot, $70 cheaper, etc. the fact is, he never uses it, he couldn't get the handwriting recognition to work reliably. I use my Palm III every day, and it's been about 3 months now, and I still use it every day. So who got the better deal. I don't know if his Wince toy is just harder to use or what, but my Palm III just works, and gets the job done, and has only locked once (on calculator?!).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Yes, but carry around two devices? ;)
besides, an emulator is mush more geekish.
Sorry, had to do it once!
On one of those wince palmtops (About the only M$ Windoze product that deserves the "win" prepended) (not the ones with the full keyboards, but the 3com palm wannabes), where's the CTRL, ALT and DEL keys?
*Gasp* no Ctrl-Alt-Del? *gasp* It's not windoze without Ctrl-Alt-Del!
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy a Gameboy? At least you get colour screens...
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AWESOME! this is great news for palm geeks everywhere! now i can have my palm emulator emulate a gameboy... i wonder how long i can go like that.?!
now all i need is a palm emulator for the gameboy.
my emulator is emulating an emulator emulating an emulator...dang. out of memory....
Ah, to think that there are still guys working in 68K assembly... Envy, envy. ;^)
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