02-15-2005, 11:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Cube: 3D Gaming for Pocket PCs with Intel 2700G Accelerator
"Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines. . . does decent collision detection & physics, has client/server networking that goes a long way in giving a lag-free game experience, and features a Doom/Quake-style singleplayer (2 game modes, savegames) and multiplayer (12 game modes, master server / server browser, demo recording) game with some uncompromising brutal oldskool gameplay."
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Cube has apparently been ported to the Pocket PC by Intel. It only works on the Dell X50v, as it uses Intel's 2700G graphics accelerator. I downloaded Cube last night and gave it a quick once over. As these screenshots show, I'd say it was well worth a longer look. It is a work in progress and is currently completely unoptimised, but getting 16 frames a second while wandering round a nicely rendered landscape in full 3D is impressive. You can get more details of the game at the cube website and you can download it from sourceforge. I like the future of portable gaming! 
Update: OK, this is why you have to always read the fine print: "64Mb RAM minimum, 128Mb for single player with monsters". So that's why I can't find any. :lol: :cry: So, only specially upgraded X50vs can play with monsters. :? Lets hope that limitation is removed when the game is optimised.
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02-15-2005, 02:51 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Drool x infinity. I'm seriously lost for words at this stage. :drool:
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02-15-2005, 03:18 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Drool x infinity. I'm seriously lost for words at this stage. :drool:
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You know, I'm liking my X50v more and more as time goes on. ;-)
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02-15-2005, 03:41 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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It is very pretty is'nt it, and comes with a few different maps as well. Must give connecting to a server a whirl and see how well it runs :mrgreen:
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02-15-2005, 04:01 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: May 2002
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Okay so just when I am thinking that it is one of these cool new PPC Phone devices that I want along comes something like this!
Now a Dell really is looking good. I would love to have a good 1st person shooter on my PPC. I spent hours playing good ol' Quake on my Jornada and have really missed this since moving to a Toshiba e755 (the d-pad in my Tosh is just too damn unpredictable!).
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02-15-2005, 04:53 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
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WOW... absolutely gorgeous!! I imagine that's QVGA? It would only be a matter of time before we'll see that kind of 3D rendering over full VGA...
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02-15-2005, 05:13 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai
WOW... absolutely gorgeous!! I imagine that's QVGA? It would only be a matter of time before we'll see that kind of 3D rendering over full VGA...
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No, it IS VGA. This is on the X50v remember. I resized the picture to fit the front page as usual.
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02-15-2005, 08:39 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Bah. Just found out about the "64Mb RAM minimum, 128Mb for single player with monsters" limitation. :?
No monster bashing for me then. :|
Untill my next PPC with 128Mb RAM and a 3D accelerator. :wink:
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02-16-2005, 12:30 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 794
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Just at the right time...and I just bought a Dell Axim X50v.
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02-16-2005, 12:52 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins
Bah. Just found out about the "64Mb RAM minimum, 128Mb for single player with monsters" limitation. :? No monster bashing for me then. :|
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Don't worry, Jonathon. Your device still gobbles mine up in every way possible. 
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