Quake 2 Ported to Pocket PC

[Dan East]

I've got Quake II ported to the Pocket PC platform. It will be a couple days before release, because there are details yet to clean up (GAPI drawing and input controls). I've only tried it in the emulator, so I can't give you an indication of the speed. It runs 100% on my 300 mhz laptop in emulator, but that of course is no indication of what I'll see on the StrongARM. The main problem at this time is the shareware pak file is 48 MB. I don't know if I'll have gZip compression ready for the initial release or not. The way I implemented compression for Quake I is so freaking slow that at this point I'm considering something more advanced so the loading won't be so compromised. I only have 16 MB CF Cards, so I'm going to have to strip everything out of the pak I can to get it to install on my hardware. <br><br>Here's a screen shot. This is in the Pocket PC emulator, using a non-standard resolution of 240x180 (same as Pocket Quake I in portrait). <br><br><br><br>Dan East<br><br>[sup][color=blue]Last modification: Dan East - 12/23/01 at 03:30:12

[Phantom]

Aw, you're fast.

[MZGuy]

I thought this was a joke, but no tilde anywhere.<br>Awesome work Dan.

[Bjorn Keizers]

Excuse me for asking: but this begs the question:<br><br>IS THIS FOR FUCKING REAL??????

[Paul]

oh boy. dan is this real? we'll need to make an announcement on the site...

[TBone]

Dan, you amaze me.

[Avenger]

WOW...

[Matt Keys]

well oh my god...Dan is trying to flood the PM server!:)

[John Lomax]

er, wow.<br><br>Dan you really are the man.<br><br>Btw. Were did you get the source from ?<br><br>- John

[Robby]

after alqways saying it can't be done, you were secretly doing it.<br>i feel cheated.<br>in a good way

[Dan East]

John Carmack released the source 2 days ago. I started porting it last night. It runs around 3 FPS on my iPaq (at full quality rendering, 240x180).<br><br>Dan East

[Paul]

oh boy, dan you think you could get us a vid of it or something?

[Matt Keys]

When it has reaches the level of optimization that quake 1 currently has, what fps might we be seeing?

[randall]

Damn. Too bad we didn't see this coming sooner - Dan just sent my Casio back to me. <br><br>VERY cool news though.

[RwGast]

Damn that was quick i just saw the source released a few days ago! Wow 3fps i think maybe we should get a group of people that arent dan and know what there doing to do the floating conversions. I know C if someone where to teach me what to do i would be more than willing to help get this thing quicker. <br><br>Great Work Dan!