03-23-2003, 09:30 PM
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Wireless Gaming For The Pocket PC
There's a neat article over on semper:aptus reviewing Pocket PC games that are wirelessly enabled (be it IR, Bluetooth, or LAN-based). If you and a friend want to compete head-on, check it out!
Incidentally, wireless gaming could be a killer future app for Pocket PCs, especially if they all start having ubiquitous wireless technologies like Bluetooth. Could you imagine being able to "beam" a game to a friend, and then just playing it right there and then?
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03-23-2003, 10:32 PM
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Re: Wireless Gaming For The Pocket PC
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Could you imagine being able to "beam" a game to a friend, and then just playing it right there and then?
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Isn't that sort of piracy?
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03-23-2003, 10:40 PM
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Re: Wireless Gaming For The Pocket PC
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Could you imagine being able to "beam" a game to a friend, and then just playing it right there and then?
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Not if it was similar to the way you could spawn a copy of Diablo (I think). A spawned copy could only participate in a multiplayer game and only with the person who spawned it to them.
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03-23-2003, 11:07 PM
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Re: Wireless Gaming For The Pocket PC
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Isn't that sort of piracy?
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In addition to what Goldkey says, there are all sorts of creative licenses one could make. If wireless-enabled Pocket PCs are sufficiently prevalent, it could be very effective viral marketing. 
--janak
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03-23-2003, 11:40 PM
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Re: Wireless Gaming For The Pocket PC
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There's a neat article over on semper:aptus reviewing Pocket PC games that are wirelessly enabled (be it IR, Bluetooth, or LAN-based). If you and a friend want to compete head-on, check it out! |
It's good to see that semper:aptus is still alive. For a long time, they hadn't had any new content. That's the site that had the comparative GPS review that led me to get Pocket CoPilot.
Steve
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03-23-2003, 11:47 PM
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Game Boy Advance SP "officially" retail-launched today. Actually tempted to try it out
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03-24-2003, 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by st63z
Game Boy Advance SP "officially" retail-launched today. Actually tempted to try it out |
Will be picking mine up this week from EB. Traded my old GB advanced on the new model. With the lighted screen and smaller size, this is a nice addition to my gear bag. The old version although not much larger, needed an external light and a battery pack to be usable, thus not very portable. I got my first GB when I was a senior in HS and still enjoy some of the games (and I just turned 30 this year). Making each unit backward compatible was an act of marketing genius. I know I can play games on my PPC, but there is something to be said for a dedicated machine. Frankly I have never had a PPC with a D pad and button layout that I have found to be superior for gaming.
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03-24-2003, 02:48 AM
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Check out the handheld version of Wyvern, a pretty popular free MMORPG. It's Java based, so sadly it only works on the Zaurus and the iPaqs (unsure about the Jornada)
http://www.cabochon.com
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03-24-2003, 03:06 AM
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Wyvern
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Originally Posted by sponge
Check out the handheld version of Wyvern, a pretty popular free MMORPG. It's Java based, so sadly it only works on the Zaurus and the iPaqs (unsure about the Jornada)
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That would be really appropriate to play on the Pocket PC. As I recall, the code name for a generation of Palm-Sized PCs or Pocket PCs was Wyvern. :-)
Steve
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03-24-2003, 04:48 AM
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Re: Wyvern
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Check out the handheld version of Wyvern, a pretty popular free MMORPG. It's Java based, so sadly it only works on the Zaurus and the iPaqs (unsure about the Jornada)
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That would be really appropriate to play on the Pocket PC. As I recall, the code name for a generation of Palm-Sized PCs or Pocket PCs was Wyvern. :-)
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would this really work on a a java enabled pocketpc - it seems to require a program called java webstart.
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