Duke Nukem targets Pocket PCs

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3619.html' target='_blank'>http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3619.html</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/duke_nukem_3d_01.jpg" /> <br /><br />"One of the undisputed smash hits of the 90s is now on its way to Pocket PCs, courtesy of independent developer Frank Pennault. Next after Doom, one first-person shooter drew particular interest from gamers on the PC platform in the 90s: Duke Nukem 3D. As a new and updated version of the game - sporting a real 3D engine, as opposed to the original's faux pax solution - is being prepared for the PC platform, the original version has found its way to the Pocket PC platform courtesy of independent developer Frank Pennault."<br /><br />I have some fond memories of this game... :mrgreen:

[danmanmayer]

I have dreamed of this day seriously... I always knew if it ran doom it could run duke nukem. But there was no source... Then about 2 months ago the source to the game was released... I thought someone will do it they have to they just have to... I even downloaded it myself and tried to see if i could try. It was above my head... Today is a wonderful day and now i can search the web for all the wonderfull mods that i had in the past and play duke nukem on the pocket pc. I SCREAM THANKS TO Frank Pennault.

[TawnerX]

a lot of discussion about this Doom page. It could be a fake prank page, since he doesn't reply the email at all, and there are questions about the screenshoots.

[delfuhd]

Ohhhh man.. I remember Duke all the way back to he first 2D adventures. I still have every single Duke Version, including all the originals, Duke 3d Atomic edition, Beach edition, I am a die hard fan. Finally it's coming to pocket pc, praises definitely go out where they are deserved. I don't want to sound too exctied, but this definitely made my day, I'm smiling right now in anticipation lol. :rock on dude!: Hail to the King, baby! lol oldschool...

[Kirk Stephens]

Its time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and Im all outta gum. :lol:

[Deslock]

I don't see FPS games like this as being too much fun on PPCs (low FPS, limited controls), but it's pretty cool nonetheless.

Duke3 was awesome for after-hours office gaming... I fondly remember those nights of yelling and falling-out-of-chairs-from-laughing-so-hard... there's nothing like using the shrink-ray on your coworker and watching him desperately try to run away before you squish him. Or hearing the profanities after your coworker comes around the corner and sets off your laser trip-wire... or when you set off a field of planted R/C explosives as he runs through it. Or dancing in front of your frozen coworker and then shattering him with a kick just as he was about to thaw. Hee.

It's weird... that continued pretty much every night with Quake1 and Q2, but for some reason became less frequent with Q3 and Half-Life and hasn't happened at all for a couple years (I don't even have any FPSs installed).

Oh the nostalgia...

Hey, maybe we could settle some of our PPC debates with some good-old-fashioned deathmatch :D

[R K]

I have some fond memories of this game... :mrgreen:

I have some not-so-fond memories of this game, especially the portions of it that were virtually pornography.

[danmanmayer]

I have some not-so-fond memories of this game, especially the portions of it that were virtually pornography.

This was a mature game for mature gamers. I wouldn't recommend it for young kids. On that note this is why i fully support the right to not play any video game that offends you. So if you have not-so-fond memories why did you play the game. I guess this might be off topic, but I don't understand how you would have memories of something that you shouldn't have done... Maybe i am confused and someone did force you to play... hehe Anyways everyone is offended by something so people do have to draw their own line. :lol:

[MooseMaster]

It's fake. I'm surprised PocketPCThoughts wants a reputation of posting erroneous information and obviously not checking the validity of the information.

[Janak Parekh]

It's fake. I'm surprised PocketPCThoughts wants a reputation of posting erroneous information and obviously not checking the validity of the information.
I ran a bunch of searches. Can you provide a link saying as much?

--janak

[Kaber]

Check the forums on PocketGamer (http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2638) about this.

There have been a number of posts to pocketgamer.org about games being ported to PPC/WinCE. Most have gone nowhere or were hoaxes to begin with.

Its nice to see that it is in developement, but the consensus on the gaming boards is, until an alpha, beta or demo is released, there is no game. Screenshots don't mean much.

I for one am a big fan and would love to see this game on my iPAQs... with multiplayer... playing on a server running on a PC.

Good luck with the port! :twisted:

[JonnoB]

I ran a bunch of searches. Can you provide a link saying as much?


Speculation only right now, but take a look at this thread (http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthread.php?s=822ed55bf8e706fc7e39ea9bb5bff595&threadid=2638&perpage=12&pagenumber=4) on PocketGamer to see what the author of PocketQuake had to say.

[delfuhd]

I honestly don't think it's a sham, but of course you can never be sure. But all I can say is that I certainly hope it's not, I started trying to port the duke3d source to my 3850's ARM processor, worked on it for an hour, and gave up, it's was too taking too much time up for me.. So let's just have faith, in the meantime it's back to Duke on the PC. :mrgreen:

[sponge]

The current 2 Duke ports that would most likely assist in a PPC port are a native Win32 version, but has tons of x86 ASM still, or an ASM free version, but uses SDL. Both are equally tough to get working on a PocketPC (though the latter could be done on a Linux PPC)

[delfuhd]

hmm has anyone heard anything else about this? I've kind of forgot about it, but I'm still wondering if it's truly going to happen.. Also, is it just me or are there more screenshots on his site? &lt;http://membres.lycos.fr/ppcsoft/>