Quake 3 Arena ported to Pocket PC

Post by **crioux** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:37 pm

http://www.noctemware.com/q3ce.html

We thought it would be fun to do it, so we ported the recenly-GPL-released Quake 3 Arena from iD Software to Windows CE 4.2 for Pocket PC, as a test for our 'SpeedDemon' Windows CE profiler. Sure, the game still runs at like 5 FPS, but at least we know how to make it faster for future builds. Expect continuing development on this port. In the meantime, enjoy the 1.0 release!

Post by **dzjepp** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:38 pm

DIZ IZ ILLEGAL! EXCPECT YOUR THREAD AND YOURE POST EDITED! CAPSLOCK!

Post by **eepberries** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:42 pm

Post by **Foo** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:48 pm

dzjepp wrote:DIZ IZ ILLEGAL! EXCPECT YOUR THREAD AND YOURE POST EDITED! CAPSLOCK!

No it's not. The source code has been released. You still need a legit copy of pak0.pk3 to play it of course.

Post by **dzjepp** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:50 pm

Post by **4days** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:53 pm

nice work

Post by **Canis** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:00 am

4FPS greatness!!!

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Post by **Haystacker17** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:30 am

lol why do people do these things? whats the point in having a 4fps game of Q3 on your ppc?

Post by **VoxProminence** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:33 am

*shrug* i think its pretty cool.

Post by **Dek** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:33 am

whats it run on a dell axim x50v

Post by **Foo** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:35 am

dzjepp wrote:

*sip*

AAAAH. Rolls right off.

Post by **Canis** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:35 am

Haystacker17 wrote:lol why do people do these things? whats the point in having a 4fps game of Q3 on your ppc?

To do it, why else? It's clearly not to play the game to pimp your Q3 Skillz... :icon22:

Post by **Foo** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:36 am

Haystacker17 wrote:lol why do people do these things? whats the point in having a 4fps game of Q3 on your ppc?

Why did the USA bother going to the moon? The scientific significance was not so high.

Post by **Canis** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:36 am

Foo wrote:
Haystacker17 wrote:lol why do people do these things? whats the point in having a 4fps game of Q3 on your ppc?
Why did the USA bother going to the moon? The scientific significance was not so high.

We beat those USSR fools fair and sqare! HAH!

Post by **simple** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:01 am

Perhaps, but the technology, the facilities, and economic prosperity se-rounding the moon project was significant. Plus it was a great symbol of why technology is important.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:13 am

Right. Scale that down to a couple of programmers with an interest in handheld technology.

QED.

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:22 am

Dek wrote:whats it run on a dell axim x50v

Precisely what I intend to find out.

Post by **crioux** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:24 am

Hey. If you think the FPS is bad, wait until you see the ping time. I haven't been able to log in to any servers yet, but I can't possibly imagine playing the game over GPRS . It would be like playing over a 9600 baud dial-up connection.

*blink*

Post by **crioux** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:27 am

As for the Axim, I don't have one, so I can't guarantee anything better than, well, bad. But maybe, just maybe, if it comes with a hardware accelerated version of libGLES_CM.dll, you might be able to swap it in and get a significant performance increase. Again, no promises until I can get my hands on a hardware accelerated unit to dev with. Shoot me email at contact@noctemware.com or whatever if you have any success at all.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:16 am

Nightshade wrote: Precisely what I intend to find out.

Report back afterwards.

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:24 am

whats the point though. I mean yeah you get it running and then no-one can play it for about the next 10 years

hurrah.........

Couldnt you put your time to something more useful like commiting suicide ?

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:52 am

riddla wrote:dont mind all these asses, this sounds like a fun project especially if you can get it to go faster. impressive.

meh......... My reasoning still stands, if you are going to do something make it worth the while. I mean its like a Jaguar Emulator, they all run like shit, nothing works ....... whats the point ?

Quake 3 running on a pocket PC is stupid, the screen is too small (cause railing someone on dm17's going to be easy :icon27: ) the power of pocket pc's are shit and as such run it at 2 fps or whatever, theres no multiplayer,

If he can get it going good for him, hes more talented than I am bothered to be, to try and get THIS game to work on that system is worse than getting it on Dreamcast.

This IS an ubre waste of time......

but hey good luck and all

:icon26:

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:23 am

thats about as useful as installing linux on your calculator

Post by **Haystacker17** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:13 pm

MKJ wrote:thats about as useful as installing linux on your calculator

word