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Old 07-28-2006, 03:00 PM
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Default Hosting Quake 3 From Your PPC?!?!

http://eabarca.dyndns.org/q3ppcserver/

"A very interesting video has just been posted here, along with some config files, showing how the Acer N50 Premium (with 128M RAM) runs the server and the game. It may be worth checking out if you'd liek to play the game in multiplayer."

FINALLY, I can now host Q3 games off of my Pocket PC - something I honestly can't tell you how many times I've wished I can do :mrgreen: Seriously, while this might not be the most practical use of your Pocket PC (Get a spare computer for this job!), it is extremely geeky and thus worthy of a post. What other tasks do you think we should investigate doing on a PPC? I'm thinking a low-level mail server...
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Old 07-28-2006, 03:25 PM
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What other tasks do you think we should investigate doing on a PPC? I'm thinking a low-level mail server...
As far as TCP/IP multiplayer games are concerned, Cube server: it seems to be working (see my Cube article here at the PPCT forums). The same stands for some other multiplayer games with a separate server component (for example, all OmniGSoft multiplayer titles)

Non-gaming-related networking server: a lot of them:

FTP, HTTP by Cambridge Computer Corp.
HTTP Proxy by me

And, if you install a (preferably dual-boot) Linux distro on it, you can run any other servers - even SMTP servers.
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Old 07-28-2006, 06:04 PM
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If we want to work with Pocket PCs like we do with Desktops, and we all want that, then we have to see the Pocket PCs as a full substitute.
 
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Old 07-28-2006, 07:10 PM
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I ran a lightweight web server on my "Space Needle" XDA back in 2002... Pointless but geeky.
 
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