Pressing "Escape" on Casio E115

[johannpublic]

I've tried binding the escape key's command to a hardware button several times, and made a few guesses (like binding a key to just "ESCAPE")<br><br>and it doesn't work.<br><br>Therefore, I can't get it to run in landscape.<br><br>That might be a good thing, though...the E115 being 131 mhz and HORRIDLY slow in PQ (playable, yes, but slow)<br><br>How much faster will PQ be if I overclock to 168 mhz? I assume that it runs right now at like 2-4 FPS using the basic levels included in the standard pak file, while it is still in gzipped format.<br><br>If this question has already been asked and answered, pardon me, I've just been too lazy to search the whole board.

[Tha_Playa]

i can just barely play portrait mode on my 206mz ipaq, its just those places where you can see more than 20 meters in front of you, i seriously couldn't imagine playing PQ on a 131mhz pocket pc, 2-4 fps isn't even enough to navigate properly, o/c ing to 168mhz will make it just playable in portrait mode, fullscreen is almost twice the size of portrait so expect about half the framerate 1-2fps at 131mhz or 2-3fps at 168mhz. (i LURB the ipaq at 236mhz runs PQ like a dream though reletivly unstable, the 10 minutes of gaming i can get is so worth it.)

[johannpublic]

I can *play* PQ pretty well, but that probably comes from experience with slow games and lag <br>Does having the plain pakfile (non-gzipped) increase speed in gameplay at all?<br>At a better eyeballing, I would guess my framerate is more like 6, but like that matters anyway.<br><br>And I'd *still* like to know how to bind an escape key, anyway, just for the novelty of having fullscreen Quake on my PDA...

[Tha_Playa]

i don't know about the "escape" key, but i know you can bind a key to "menu" that brings up the menu have you tried pressing all the buttons to see what they do? its the notes button on the ipaq, maybe its the same on the casio...<br><br>Also, unzipping the pak to its full 18mb glory will not speed gameplay AT ALL, it only affects load times, and only load times, you will get no performance increase fps wise..

[Dan East]

For MIPS Casios you need to bind AUX2 to the "togglemenu" command. All other devices must use AUX5.<br><br>Dan East

[johannpublic]

sweet. thanks a bunch.

[esw]

Though it loads much faster, a plain PAK file will not make the game's frame rate better than with a gzipped PAK file. I know, if only it was a *tiny* bit faster...  ;)<br><br>Hopefully the upcomming realase of pqII will bring more optimizations to both PQs.