Gaming on Openmoko?

[ramsesoriginal]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:05 AM, David Samblas Martinez
<dsamblas at yahoo.es> wrote:
> There  are some good java games for movile phone out there  than can be
> executed with jlimo. I was able to run some games in the dosbox in jlime so
> I supuse that a lot of oldies pc games can be runned in neo too.
>
Prince of Persia anyone? or Asteroids?

> About the key thing, despite we  loose part of the screen, I supose it can
> be relatively easy to implement an alternative keyboard as the included one
> but only with 8 directional keypad (this keypad willbe an 8 "swiched" one
> but can evolve to analogic) and two buttons A B as fire ,jump etc...
>

Shure thing! Probably even PSX emulation should be possible..

> Mo Abrahams <moabrahams at dashavoo.com> escribió:
>
> We don't have drivers for the 3D hardware, so I am afraid games like
> that are a little out of the question...

Butwe will, some day...

> although I think that would
> need something more powerful than what we have anyway wouldn't it?

According to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/IPhone there shouldn't be
much difference..

>
> Would be very happy to see somebody get 3D working though =)
> It could be fun to see how app developers would exploit it, let alone
> having 3D games...

Some sort of "Cube" on the phone..hmm

> I was about to say someone should port some gameboy
> emulator or something, since we do have 2D, but then the button thing
> hit me =P
>
> On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 00:04 +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote:
>> I just watched
>> http://gizmodo.com/388688/raging-thunder-iphone-racing-game-shows-tons-of-potential,
>> and asked myself what sorts of games are tested/planned/running on the
>> freerunner: For example, is planet Penguin Racer Working?
>>
>
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BTW, i was just thinking: Cross-Compiling from/for Gp2X.. should be
possible, or not?

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