Semi-OT: PocketDoom?

[sponge]

After Wolf3D is finished, what about a (decent) port of Doom? Mainly one with a virtual control pad like PW3D and PQ, and landscape support (damn you Jimmy!) Maybe by then Q2 source will be released, and we'll have PocketQuake2 (hah that'll be the day)<br><br>-sponge

[Warren]

I think PocketDukeNukem3D would be better, because we already have Doom4CE. If you want simple, then PocketBlakeStone, that's a great classic.

[Robotbeat]

I saw a place where you can download the Quake2 source. It wasn't a warez site, either. It was an affiliate of www.planetquake.com , I think. If anyone is interested, I can look in my history to find the link.

[Dan East]

Actually I had considered porting Doom for a few reasons:<br><br>The existing port is substandard in display modes and user input compared to both Pocket Quake and Pocket Wolf.<br><br>Jimmy never released the source code, and it would probably be difficult to go after them legally since they can hide out in a 3rd world country.<br><br>I'm missing a port chronologically between Pocket Wolf and Pocket Quake. <br><br>Dan East

[NYIllustrator]

jesus christ, the guy isnt done with one port and your already asking for others! Relax!

[randall]

I have no doubt that Dans port of Doom would most likely be the best out there.<br><br>I thought I remembered playing a landscape version of it, though. It certainly wasn't Jimmy's lame attempt. I think it was DoomCE or something similar to Jimmy's.

[sponge]

I'm not rushing Dan, or pushing him (at least intentionally) just interesting in knowing/giving him a suggestion before he gets another one. Doom is a FAR superior game to Wolf and it really has no extra controls too. Wonder if id will wanna snatch him up after these 2 ports, kinda like what they did with Zoid. id a PDA company? Hm. <br><br>Robobeat, you must mean the gamex86.dll/.so, which is the game as in the game, not the engine. You can use that to make mods to run under Quake2. The Q2 engine source is not released yet.

[Robby]

conduits made a landscape version, but it never worked for me.<br>you could try getting their source, but with our skills is would make more sense to start from scratch.<br>Duke3D is a better games than doom, less people know it inside like doom, and, cruciallly for the ppc, its not so dark.  you can see whats going on.<br>i dunno what engine it would use - probably be a speed in between doom and quake.<br>yes.<br>

[randall]

Duke wasn't true 3D, and relied on Doom technology with sprite-based images. It would run at about the same pace as Doom.<br><br>I don't know why people insist on bringing this up though- the source to Duke has never been released. And by the looks of it, it won't be released anytime soon either. Maybe if you had a gajillion dollars and contract to port it, they'd release it to you. (like Tomb Raider and SC2K)<br><br><br><br>

[MZGuy]

Duke used 3DRealms' own 3d engine: Build

[Courtney White]

I've already asked for the source code from jimmysoft, but they never reply to my emails.<br><br>Face it, jimmysoft will no longer make anything that they can't sell, and will not help anyone else in making anything else.<br><br>Why do i say this<br>*they never released their code<br>*jimmysoft never aswers posts in their message board<br>*i have never received a reply when i emailed them with ANY question.<br><br>Most people have a decent Doom port, but im a 720 owner.  i would start from scratch, but the 820 version on their site works, but the display will not show properatly (for those that don't know, the 820 had a full size screen while the 720 has a half screen) i know a few tricks that could fix the size of the screen.<br><br>If anyone knows how to decompile a program, i would be very thankful.<br><br>Cwhite

[Matt Keys]

HeHe, I remember talking to someone earlier, they asked me why we didn't host Doom. I replied, the only version of doom I would want to host is one made by Dan East or a programmer of equal intelligence:)

[Blade]

Yeah plz make a landscape doom

[sponge]

http://www.advsys.net/ken/buildsrc/default.htm<br><br>If Duke3D can be ported, you'll probably use that source up there. I don't think personally a port of Duke would be that great, playing would seem hard, and it would be quite large. We do have Quake though so anything can happen. PocketROTT would be better

[Robotbeat]

What the heck are you talking about? There are already plenty of WinCE Doom ports! And they are not even close to as big as PocketQuake. Dan wants to do a new port of Doom with a better Interface and controls and a landscape version.