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chrome_gnome
12-15-2004, 08:50 PM
I am thinking about buying a Pocket PC (iPAQ, Dell) for my weekly Role Playing Game group. We are 30+ year guys who are tired of lugging around all the rulebooks and I found a couple of freely distributed set of rules on a link from the Wizards of the Coast Website so it is totally legal. One version is an online only version but I found one that is similar that is an html file that you unzip to your pc and navigate around the vast amount of info (40MB) with your browser. It works fine on any browser on my desktop but I am concerned with the readability of the info on a Pocket PC because of a navigation bar on the left of the screen.

The file is at

http://www.andargor.com/

and is the file at this link

http://www.andargor.com/files/srd35-andargor-HTML-v1.2.zip

Once unzipped there should be a file called "index.html" that is the main start page.

If a Pocket PC would allow be to navigate around this document it would simply my life and save my back from all the stran. I was basically wondering if anyone could take a peek at it before I go spend the money to find out it won't work. Also can you run the display in landscape instead of portrait, as it would make the blocks of text this thing contains easier to read.

One more newb question if I might is there are a few PC utilities I'd like to know if they work on a Pocket PC as well. It is at the same webpage just a different link and its much smaller.

http://www.andargor.com/files/npc.2.0.5.zip

How do you know if a program will run on a Pocket PC? Does software have to be written expressly for it or are the conversin programs to make normal PC utilities work or what?