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Quake 3 Arena ported to Pocket PC
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:37 pm
by crioux
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!
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:38 pm
by dzjepp
DIZ IZ ILLEGAL! EXCPECT YOUR THREAD AND YOURE POST EDITED! CAPSLOCK!

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:42 pm
by eepberries
Cool
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:48 pm
by Foo
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.
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:50 pm
by dzjepp
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:53 pm
by 4days
nice work

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:00 am
by Canis
4FPS greatness!!!

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:04 am
by Guest
w00t
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:30 am
by Haystacker17
lol why do people do these things? whats the point in having a 4fps game of Q3 on your ppc?
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:33 am
by VoxProminence
*shrug* i think its pretty cool.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:33 am
by Dek
whats it run on a dell axim x50v
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:35 am
by Foo
dzjepp wrote:
*sip*
AAAAH. Rolls right off.

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:35 am
by Canis
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:
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:36 am
by Foo
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:36 am
by Canis
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!

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:01 am
by simple
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:13 am
by Foo
Right. Scale that down to a couple of programmers with an interest in handheld technology.
QED.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:22 am
by Nightshade
Dek wrote:whats it run on a dell axim x50v
Precisely what I intend to find out.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:24 am
by crioux
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*
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:27 am
by crioux
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:16 am
by Massive Quasars
Nightshade wrote:
Precisely what I intend to find out.
Report back afterwards.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:24 am
by [FTF]Pyro
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 ?
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:52 am
by [FTF]Pyro
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:
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:23 am
by MKJ
thats about as useful as installing linux on your calculator
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:13 pm
by Haystacker17
MKJ wrote:thats about as useful as installing linux on your calculator
word