Gaming on Openmoko?

ramsesoriginal ramsesoriginal at gmail.com
Sat May 10 01:44:24 CEST 2008


On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:36 AM,  <matt.mets at cibomahto.com> wrote:
> The problem that I see with a virtual keypad (besides the lack of tactile
> feedback) is that the screen can only handle one button press at a time.
> Most games require at least a d-pad and action button to be accessible at
> the same time in order to be playable.  Pacman doesn't though :-D.
>

see above, accelerometers.. :D


> Perhaps something workable can be thought up, though.  Personally, I thought
> it might be fun to use the bluetooth connection to talk to a Nintendo Wii
> controller, but those are as big as the Neo...
>

That would be a cool idea!

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