Gaming oportunities

tony tony at paperdove.org
Tue Jan 16 23:50:35 CET 2007


Paul Bohme wrote:
> tony wrote:
>> I am planning a Nethack port. It should be quite easy.
> 
> In theory, yes.  In practice...  I have run this on a Zaurus, and it's a 
> little hard to see/read.  At least on that I have a reasonable keyboard 
> - what are your thoughts on display sizes as well as input mechanism?
> 
> If it can be made to work, that's almost enough excuse for me to buy one 
> right there (as if there weren't already plenty of them..)
> 
>  -P

I'm not entirely sure yet. I imagine I'll first do a text port with a 
"portal" view (in which you only see a part of the screen at a time), 
and a user-selected font size. Then I'd try a tiles-based port.

It all depends on how readable the text is on the small screen.

				- Tony




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