Re: [SLUG] portable gaming (was: need video help)

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 12:53:14 EDT


> Well, I've seen screenshots of a quake 1 port to the Zaurus. Most of the
> fps games that I've seen
> ported to PDAs have horrible control schemes like using the on-screen
> keyboard or, like the winCE
> version of quake1, left, right, jump and shoot touchzones below the game
> screen. While I can't
> think of anything better on your average pda, I'd love to see the zaurus
> version (of any fps) just
> use the built-in keyboard. It wouldn't be great, but I think it would be
> better than tapping
> around on the screen.

Yeah, I'm sure the builtin KB would work fine. In fact, since it's a
thumb-board, it might work better - you could map the keys to give it a
gameboy kind of feel.

> Hmm.. come to think of it, I wonder if any of these games include the
> network portions. I mean,
> they have 802.11... =:)

If not, the full Q2 source is available, as well as that of older Id fps's
like Q1/Doom/etc, and I'd guess they'll keep releasing sources to their
titles as they become somewhat obsoleted.

A Zaurus and a few 1- or 2-gig CF cards would be a good replacement for my
old presario 1247 laptop...

Levi



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