Old Games for PDAs? 20
Stin Tankin writes "I was looking for games for my PDA when I came across an empire clone for PDAs called Pocket War. I used to love empire. I also have Mame CE for my Pocket PC which provides a ton of old arcade games. These old games run great because they were made for slow low resolution devices. Does anyone know where I can find more of these old games? I'm really looking for something like Nethack for a Pocket PC or Sharp Zaurus."
Re:A market for low-cpu games (Score:1)
Rogue / Nethack for the palm (Score:4, Informative)
http://roguelike-palm.sourceforge.net/iRogue/ [sourceforge.net]
There is netHack for Zaurus (Score:2, Informative)
http://trolls.troll.no/warwick/nethack/ipk/
And there is a quake port in the works.
Old ZX Spectrum games (Score:1)
/P edro
Nethack CE (Score:2)
There's also NetHack 3.2 [haakana.net] for CE. I dunno if that will work on PocketPC or not, not being a pocketpc guy, but I hope so.
What I'd really like is a palm nethack that will sync with my desktop nethack, but the devteam [nethack.org] has made it clear a palmtop version is not in the cards.... (though these guys [sourceforge.net] are working on it)
Good luck!
AmigaAnywhere (Score:2, Interesting)
TI-99 Emulator for Linux (Score:1, Informative)
Re:TI-99 Emulator for Linux (Score:1)
Yes please... (Score:3, Informative)
Jumpman (Score:2)
Available here [integraclaims.com]. Totally free. Source on request.
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Emulators abound.... (Score:2)
Scummvm has been ported - so that you can play old games from Zak McCracken (although I don't think Arisme's build currently has any support for it), up to Full Throttle, and soon Monkey Island 3.
I spend most of my time now playing games such as Dizzy on the Spectrum - there's a very nice emulator called PocketClive - which seems more than playable for old games such as these. For the Palm I haven't seen that much - I was hoping that somebody would write a Spectrum emulator (was even considering it when I had that elusive thing known as free time), but as of yet, it appears the PocketPC is where it's at.
Don't forget games such as Snails - which is a nice "new" game, based upon Worms and that sort of program. it's fun to play and quite cheap. Also the people are very pleasant.
There's lots of discussion of this sort of thing on PocketMatrix (www.pocketmatrix.com) and they have forums which are very well peopled. If you want to find other games to play, then PocketGamer (www.pocketgamer.org) is also very good.
I think that the interesting time is going to come when the new PDAs come out with the higher end ARMs - they should be capable of emulating everything up to the SNES at a decent framerate, although this might have an unfortunate effect on the original games market for PDAs. Still, we'll have to see.
Re:Emulators abound.... (Score:1)
link: http://pocketatari.retrogames.com/downloads.html
This is pretty impressive... (Score:2)
Google is fast!
Elite Clone for Palm (Score:1)
Elite was a ground breaking game that elegantly used the limited resources of early home computers to brilliant effect, creating an immersive world in line vector graphics and text menus. This economy of resources has allowed to gain new life.
On the Palm, it feels like coming home. Mmmmmm...
it's there... (Score:1)
nicest: Nethack-Palm porting project [sourceforge.net]