PocketMatrix

New to the boards here.
I've been looking at the older posts for a while today and it looks like you are a Jornada 720 owner?
Got mine off ebay for a song and am just waiting for it to arrive - Anyhow, I've been noticing that a lot of software(Games)dont say that they are specifically for the 720 but have downloads for ARM processors so I would imagine that they work? Or are they specifically formated for pocketpcs and not hpcs? Will Age of Empires work?

Thats it! Sorry to bother you if you dont have one

So I've been playing around with my j720 for about a week now and I have to say that while it works really well for the other things I need it for - scheduling - word - etc. I've been pretty unimpressed with its performance gamewise. The fact that I cant even run a nes emu at full speed (or even close to it) is silly. Pocketdos is slooowww... cant emulate a 25mhz 8086 with a 206mhz strongarm...
Is there a possibility I got a bad unit? Or is this just how it goes? Is there a pocketpc benchmark utility? I just really want to play something other than tetris and solitaire at full speed

Hey.. shouldn't landscape apps work fine on the HPC, if you get gx.dll working? ie Age of Empires is landscape.

PocketQuake runs reasonably quickly on the Jornada 720, and R0B made a port of Doom for the HPC, MuffinLegacy or something like that was it's name.

Gameboy is about the only thing I can run full speed on my PocketPC. NES is full speed but I have to put a very small frame skip in there. SNES and Genesis are a crawl on the PocketPC, so the HPC's are not the only ones that play game slowly.

The PocketPC is much more gamer oriented than the HandheldPC. And HandheldPCs lost their moment in the spotlight a couple years ago so don't expect too much to became available for it. Sorry I don't have any positive news

Thanks for the responses...

As long as other people are in the same boat I feel better. I think I may have just imagined the HPC's performance would be better than it is... That 206mhz is really misleading Now I'm really wishing I knew how to program for the HPC though... there's a ton of stuff I want to port (things that will actually run full speed )

Like Zangband for instance.. that would rule..


Hmm... okay.. im committed..

I need to learn C++ right? Hmm.. how does "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (4th Edition)" sound?

Now off to d/l evC++....

There is already a version of Angband for Pocket PC that might work on your HPC. It's called AngbandCE, and you can find it here.

Thanks for the link...

Didnt work though

Oh well... more incentive for me to compile my own