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Quake 3 for Pocket PC
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:24 pm
by saturn
Probably old, but hey, it's new for me
http://www.noctemware.com/q3ce.html
Damn, it requires 40 megs of RAM....and if it crashes you'll need to hard-reset the device. Think I'll pass since I have a lot of valuable info and I don't feel like putting the backup back.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:25 pm
by Canis
Ooohh nice! 5FPS! Its kinda like Doom for the iPod.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:47 pm
by Pauly
The world has gone mad
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:48 pm
by Massive Quasars
Throw in one of those high fps configs, should chug along well enough.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:14 pm
by [xeno]Julios
why would anyone want to play a game like quake3 on such a device?
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:15 pm
by Canis
Its not a matter of how well one could do it, but rather that one is capable of it. Just imagine getting a frag by using that thing...I'd laugh heartily.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:29 pm
by bikkeldesnikkel
aww nice, ive been waiting to see this.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:30 pm
by bikkeldesnikkel
lol, the fps are even playable
I am currently achieving 15-25 FPS on the x50v, and it's totally playable. Expect a release sometime this weekend. The memory footprint has been tightened up (although some unconventional memory tricks were used, more on that at a later date).
As for batching and reducing draw calls, the guys at iD already did a lot of that in the Q3A codebase. Turns out that the part that slows things down the most is the bot AI, due to all the complex path-tracing and scene intersection testing code. Having 4 bots in the arena slows things down to 5-10 FPS depending on how much activity is going on. Working on that now.
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/forums/view ... sc&start=0
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:38 pm
by [xeno]Julios
i still don't get it.
It's a fucking travesty.
i'm assuming no mouse, so that's a big strike
the product webpage itself says that multiplayer is almost non-functional
Network support is obviously limited. Your Pocket PC likely doesn't have a very fast internet connection, so your ping times are going to be crap. Hell, it might not even work. Maybe in the next release...
and 5-10fps once you start playing with other models in the arena.
So what is it good for?
it's a fucking gimmick.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:42 pm
by bikkeldesnikkel
well duh its a gimmick what dya expect from a pocket pc.
what could be rlly nice tho is that u could plug a keyboard and mouse in and plug ur ppc to a tv, then you could play q3 everywhere on the go
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:45 pm
by bikkeldesnikkel
[xeno]Julios wrote:and 5-10fps once you start playing with other models in the arena.
thats with bots running, w/ forcemodel it should be doable right, picmip 95566565 etc.
started out quake3 on my 133mhz, 48mb machine doing 0-15 fps and 999ping, still had great fun
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:54 pm
by [xeno]Julios
but seriously, why would someone actually pay money to play in such a castrated fashion?
i don't consider:
"OOOH coz it looks so cool and i can tell my friends about it"
a reason.
seriously - give me a detailed scenario where this game would bring you value.
You can't even strafe run or do flick shots...
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:10 pm
by Foo
Pay?
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:11 pm
by bikkeldesnikkel
if u mean download and try out... id love to. don't have an x50v unfortunately.
but the pluggin in mouse/keyboard and hooking up to tv doesn't sound interesting?? fkn mobile console man...think about the future
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:36 pm
by Doombrain
I've got the saturn port of Tomb Raider installon on my pda
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:50 pm
by brisk
Doombrain wrote:I've got the saturn port of Tomb Raider installon on my pda
port? that shit started out on the saturn!
ahh memories... despite a lot of crap that system, there was some superb games for it too
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:51 pm
by brisk
and yes, quake 3 on a pocket pc is a gimmick, nothing more. i thought that getting a java-equiped phone would mean i waste tonnes of time playing games on it, but after the initial gimmick value wore off, i stopped.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:00 pm
by MKJ
brisk wrote:Doombrain wrote:I've got the saturn port of Tomb Raider installon on my pda
port? that shit started out on the saturn!
it was a near simultaneous release for psx, saturn and pc actually
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:05 pm
by brisk
MKJ wrote:brisk wrote:Doombrain wrote:I've got the saturn port of Tomb Raider installon on my pda
port? that shit started out on the saturn!
it was a near simultaneous release for psx, saturn and pc actually
The history of the lovely Lara Croft goes back to 1996 when Tomb Raider debuted on Sega Saturn. But due to Sony's PlayStation marketing blitz and insufficient installed userbase of Sega's ill-fated and expensive console, it floundered. However, the PlayStation and PC releases of Tomb Raider later that year were a huge success - the phenomenon was born.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:05 pm
by saturn
[xeno]Julios wrote:but seriously, why would someone actually pay money to play in such a castrated fashion?
i don't consider:
"OOOH coz it looks so cool and i can tell my friends about it"
a reason.
seriously - give me a detailed scenario where this game would bring you value.
You can't even strafe run or do flick shots...
They obviously can't let you pay for it, but it's just for fun. Like I had Quake 1 running on my PDA, just because I could. Like having Doom running on your iPod. Ludicrous, but it's possible, so why not.
Lara Croft on the PDA was quite playable with the large touchscreen buttons. But it wasted too much precious memory that I needed for my documents and PDA programs.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:18 pm
by losCHUNK
is it point and shoot ?
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:21 am
by [xeno]Julios
oh ok it's free software.
i just hope none of you would BUY a pocket pc just because you can play quake on it
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:30 am
by saturn
losCHUNK wrote:is it point and shoot ?
Maybe you can use the stylus to point and shoot? Point, touch - frag!
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:50 am
by Canidae
They have mice for pda/phones
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:02 am
by losCHUNK
saturn wrote:losCHUNK wrote:is it point and shoot ?
Maybe you can use the stylus to point and shoot? Point, touch - frag!
aye mun, be interesting to see your frag count if you play like that, me thinks