Quake 2 Ported to Pocket PC

[Dan East]

Here's another screenshot. This is off of my iPaq. I estimate it's around 3 fps, but I expect that to at least double with optimizations, etc. Probably not for the first release though. Being that Christmas is right around the corner there may be a delay. I started on this around 9PM last night, and got it working around 5 AM or so, and still haven't slept. So, I don't know how much time I can spend on this to hunt down a few bad bugs so I can release it. Hopefully before the end of this week.<br><br><br><br>Dan East<br><br>[sup][color=blue]Last modification: Dan East - 12/23/01 at 16:17:12

[TBone]

I'd love to help, although I'm basically a weekend programmer. I think I'd rather see sound added to Wolf3D and the source released though.

[Konrad]

I have discarded Buddhism and converted to Dan'Eastism. Now I can really spite my Palm friends (oooh, you mean you can play CHESS on that thing?? well check this out...)<br><br>If you're interested, I will write you a holy book. All great religious figures need holy books <br><br>See also: Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle.

[Village_Ideot]

Wheee GO DAN!  Did'ya notice all cool peoples names are Dan?  Mine included!

[Diego Cueva]

Ihaaaa! Quake 2!

[Digby]

Well done, Dan!  We're all very fortunate to have you call PM home.<br><br>Make sure to take time off from porting to spend time with your family for Christmas.<br><br>

[RwGast]

Hey Dan how do you manage to port all this great id software before everyone else? How long have you been programming for?

[NYIllustrator]

Dan, I dont know what to say. I havent been in a few days..and I come back to this. It just amazing. Your fast. First Wolf now this? wow. Im in awe. You just sold another few thousand pocket pcs. Someone better pick you up while they have the chance.

[Avenger]

oh yes, I think we've won the PocketPC vs. Palm war with this now....<br><br>Dan, you're the best...

[randall]

At what time were we losing the war?<br><br>Dan could almost have a career as a PPC game porter, with big companies paying him to port their older games.<br><br>To me this makes alot of sense. Someone still owns the license and intellectual property to these games, and most of them have seen stagnant to non-existent sales for quite a while. The content is already there ready to recycled to a new platform.<br><br>I'm not talking about games by id software, which already provides (free) source to their older stuff. I'm talking about a company giving Dan an exclusive deal to port a game.

[MessiahXI]

wow, now that it runs on PocketPC, all that remains is to find some shred of a reason to play it on PocketPC.  I'm not trying to knock your work here, Dan.  As a programming exercise, this is an amazing milestone.  But seriously, I don't have to elaborate on why a 4 inch screen and wonky pda controls suck the life out of 3d action games.  Besides, as many hours as I've tossed away playing games like Q2 online, the last thing I need to be doing is pretending it's fun to "play" it on a train on an iPaq.  Harldy a real "Palm-killer", since the mainstream pda market will largely ignore this admirable science project.<br><br>

[MZGuy]

The slashdot effect has struck the forums. Not too slow tho.

[shane parrott]

forgive my ignorance, but this IS a port to winCE right?  anyone thought about throwing it onto the dreamcast?  could be interesting for sure.

[TBone]

Speak for yourself, it's slow as hell for me. At least we haven't gotten a bunch of morons on here shouting "D00d, port it to linux, Windoze sux!"<br><br>Except for Chris, of course. <grin>

[dc]

I do wonder how hard it whould be to get running on my linux iPaq <br><br>(sorry for that)