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« on: February 09, 2005, 03:22:55 pm »
First of all, this isn't a complaint thread.

I was wondering how Quake was ported to pdaXrom, and how feasible it would be to bring other old games to the platform.  For instance, Warcraft or Starcraft.  I realize that space is a huge issue, but I ran Starcraft on a 133mhz/32mb laptop back in the day, so I don't see why the hardware couldn't handle it.

Of course, I do realize that SC and WC are both windows games, but wasn't Quake too?
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2005, 05:18:51 pm »
The quake engine was released by ID software as open source and many derivative engines were built upon that source.

If you find worthwhile games which have been similarly released by the vendor, meet the hardware spec (i.e. don't absolutely need 3d acceleration) and are likely to be both playable and suitable to the PDAXROM platform then I'm sure you will get some keen porters... It also helps if you can still get hold of the data commercially for these games since it is very seldom that the companies completely open up the distribution/use on old games - I think this has limited the interest in porting things like Duke Nukem 3D - you just can't buy it in the shops.... (Kudos to Revolution software for releasing BASS that works with ScummVM).
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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2005, 03:06:48 pm »
Ah, gotcha.  I knew iD licensed their engines, didn't realize the earlier ones had been opened.

That's a real shame, I would love to see a good RTS on this platform.  Maybe I should write Blizzard and see what they have to say.
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2005, 03:16:04 pm »
Hello,
if you want to play Warcraft II there is stratagus in the unstable feed . It runs fine on RC8 and RC9.

Try it

Denis
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« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2005, 08:45:11 am »
Hey

What is the trick with stratagus ? I tried "astroseries" and "battle of survival" and both just freezes my C860  when I press "start new game".

I run them from X11, from inside a shell window ...

I am assuming that zaurus runs out of memory (and just hangs, which is rather lame)

I tried to run it before loading x11, but it complains about not finding a DLL (for mouse).

Any hint on how to make stratagus work ?
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« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2005, 06:50:58 pm »
Can anyone with a good developer setup compile the last Visual Boy Advance, with fp emulation and executable stripping? Just to try it... maybe it will run a bit faster
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« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2005, 03:14:40 am »
oh yes please please please pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease please !!!!!!!!!!

scoutme : no matter what option i tried, i never got faster than 60% or so of normal speed... Even if pdaxrom is getting faster and faster, i doubt a zaurus will be powerfull enough to emulate gba. :'(

BUT WE HAVE TO TRY IT ! I own a gba (the first one, not the SP version) and i can't see anything on it... The Z screen is so beautifull... Did you know Sharp produces the Nintendo DS screen ?
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« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2005, 04:10:04 am »
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Hey

What is the trick with stratagus ? I tried "astroseries" and "battle of survival" and both just freezes my C860  when I press "start new game".

I run them from X11, from inside a shell window ...

I am assuming that zaurus runs out of memory (and just hangs, which is rather lame)

I tried to run it before loading x11, but it complains about not finding a DLL (for mouse).

Any hint on how to make stratagus work ?
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I´ve just set 32 MB of swap on my CF Card. Warcraft II and BoS run fine.
Astroseries stops with an error  

bye Denis
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2005, 08:10:23 am »
I play in onboard compiled Batle of Wesnoth
« Last Edit: February 27, 2005, 10:24:18 am by SSG »
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2005, 09:49:38 am »
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I´ve just set 32 MB of swap on my CF Card. Warcraft II and BoS run fine.
Astroseries stops with an error   

bye Denis
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can you give a mini how-to on how you got War2 to run?  did you have to do anything special?
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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2005, 03:06:26 pm »
@ SSG:
   can you please make yor battle of wesnoth available for us?!?


@ DaMightyWhightyMan :
   i only installed stratagus, swapon and load my wcII data on my CF Card : stratagus -d /mnt/cf/wcII/data, wait 20 seconds and it starts! no magic,
runs under debian on my c700, too

bye Denis
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« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2005, 03:16:06 pm »
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@ SSG:
   can you please make yor battle of wesnoth available for us?!?


@ DaMightyWhightyMan :
   i only installed stratagus, swapon and load my wcII data on my CF Card : stratagus -d /mnt/cf/wcII/data, wait 20 seconds and it starts! no magic,
runs under debian on my c700, too

bye Denis
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68780\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

 I need a host to place this package It size is 19 Mb
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« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2005, 03:39:07 pm »
you can mail it to me (mailATdeniscalliesDOTde)
and i will host it on my site

Denis
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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2005, 04:20:06 am »
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you can mail it to me (mailATdeniscalliesDOTde)
and i will host it on my site

Denis
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68785\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Upload on www.clearpepper.nm.ru/data/wesnoth_0.8.11_armv5tel.ipk

good look
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« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2005, 05:57:16 am »
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you can mail it to me (mailATdeniscalliesDOTde)
and i will host it on my site

Denis
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68785\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Upload on www.clearpepper.nm.ru/data/wesnoth_0.8.11_armv5tel.ipk

good look
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Excellent !!!!

thanks  SSG
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