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Old 03-23-2003, 09:30 PM
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Default Wireless Gaming For The Pocket PC

http://www.semperaptus.com/reviews/r022003.shtml

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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Old 03-23-2003, 10:32 PM
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Default 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?
Isn't that sort of piracy?
 
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Old 03-23-2003, 10:40 PM
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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?
Isn't that sort of piracy?
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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Old 03-23-2003, 11:07 PM
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Isn't that sort of piracy?
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.

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Old 03-23-2003, 11:40 PM
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Default 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.

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Old 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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Old 03-24-2003, 01:21 AM
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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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Old 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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Old 03-24-2003, 03:06 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
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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Old 03-24-2003, 04:48 AM
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Default 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)

http://www.cabochon.com
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
would this really work on a a java enabled pocketpc - it seems to require a program called java webstart.
 
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