Descent

[Paul]

no no no, get matt to change the TAG to phantom, like mine says monkey, just leave your name as 'Jacco'

[Phantom]

I'll ask him.

[PeterTable]

<br>PocketDescent, woooa<br><br>I think there will be lot of happy people if you get Descent on our pocket PCs<br>:)

[jongjungbu]

That's a long name Pedro.

[Phantom]

Descent now runs in a window on my laptop (PII/233) at a very decent frame rate. Looks like it will be quite playable on my iPaq. The laptop has to do some nasty framebuffer conversions: EasyCE expects a 240x320 buffer, so I rotate the descent buffer by 90 degrees, wich is in turn rotated back by EasyCE - These steps are not neccessary on the iPaq, so it should perform about as good as the PII in this case.<br><br>It will take a while before it's perfect though, I have palette problems right now, and of course the keyboard and file stuff. Anyway, as soon as I have something running on the iPaq I'll post an alpha release.

[Moose or Chuck]

We don't want an iCrap release. We want a Casio release! ;D

[Paul]

dont forget the little guy!

[Moose or Chuck]

So Paul, I've been wondering. Why is your signature a picture? I can understand the smily thing, but the text?

[Phantom]

The initial release will support Casio and SH3 as well, since it's using EasyCE. HOWEVER - On the iPaq I can exploit the already rotated hardware framebuffer to get a higher frame rate. I expect very good speed from the iPaq. Anyway, you guys can optimize it for Casio yourself - Every release will include source code.

[Phantom]

Oh yeah, UPDATE: Descent now compiles with the Embedded Visual Tools. I need to add some stuff for location independency (see my latest tutorial), and then I can give it a try. There are some nasty huge data files though. I'll see if I can zip those.

[RwGast]

Wow this is neat. I was just thinking how descent might suck on an ipaq with the button problem. Does a kb or a stinger fix the button problem? Becuase descent kicks ass but if you cant fly and shoot than it may suck. tThanks for working on this jacco i think this will make alot of people happy.

[Phantom]

Please move this to the Phantom forum. I created a nice Descent development thread.

[Paul]

you arent a mod of this forum? that stinks.

[Phantom]

5 days ago you didn't want me to have a forum, and now I should be a mod? THAT stinks.

[Paul]

i never said that!