PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

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I just thought, what are the odds that these games can be and will be ported to Maemo 5 ? Some good pc games, older ones, which i would like being ported/run on the N900 or future Maemo devices.

Pharaoh (Windows)
Half-Life 1 (Windows)
Sim City 3000 (Windows)
Homeworld 1 (Windows, Linux)
Red Alert 2 (Windows)
Diablo 2 (Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X)
Atomic Bomberman (Windows)
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (Windows)
The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind (Windows)
Grand Theft Auto 3 (Windows)

The N900 does have the HW to run these games (except maybe GTA3)...So i assume its just the matter of programming issues? I don't expect some official publishers/developers to do it, atleast i don't assume they will. But the community could imo. What's your opinion?


Also list which games would YOU want to see !!

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

For most of them - none. Only Homeworld 1 has been open sourced.

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

lincity-ng, bzflag, wesnoth, globulation 2, widelands, puzzles(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/), enigma2, NEVERBALL(with accelerator support), warzone2100, openttd, netpanzer, freeciv, openlierox, wormux, hedgewars, planetpenguinracer(with accelrator support), enigma2(with accelerator support), fillets-ng

I'm guessing most of these might just work out of the box(as in after a recompile) as they are all Free Software.

Yes PC is also Linux, minix and a lot of other x86/x86_64 capable systems... If you meant windows only games you really should state it that way :)

And yes I do believe atleast some of these are already available on the older tablets ;)

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UAE (amiga emulator) - that would be bliss...

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

I suggest you look at happypenguin.org for a good set of possible games that could be ported to Maemo 5.

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gta3 off course :D:D

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hm..and do you think anyone would be willing to port it? Considering it was ported to Linux and the source code/SDK is free/public? It would be much easier than for example porting it to the PSP imo. We could set-up a team perhaps? I think if we worked together it could be ported within 6 months max.

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There's a Bomberman clone in Extras already...

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hey folks ,have you seen this bounce game video?
http://symbian-freak.com/news/009/09...ks_awesome.htm
graphics are great!!!

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yup, thats the reason i listed the games i listed in this topic, the n900 has the power :)

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

Do you think that this game could be run on nokia N900 ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUf6Cg1vwI

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

GTA2
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/?id=3

I used to love this game.

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

sure, the n900 has similar/better specs then the iphone, so yea...it could

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

That is a commercial iPhone game, so, at the moment, there is a near-zero chance of the authors porting it to Maemo (it's not that they couldn't, it's just that there is no incentive for them to do so at the moment).

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No.

Just because something becomes freeware doesn't mean it'll work on the N900. Unless Rockstar ports the game over themselves, it will not happen.

Source code needs to be open for it to happen.

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So, can i start my "Bring Homeworld to Maemo 5" topic :D ?

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

It's likely possible, but it's not THAT easy. Your two main problems are likely to be OpenGL ES wrapping (as originally it's OpenGL 1.x) and usability (those ships were hard to spot even on desktop screens, on the N900 their size will (literally) be measured in micrometers.

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well, i originally wanted to port the game to PSP, i found even a few guys who would do it...good guys, but i think that porting it to Maemo 5 will be a lot more easier... i am aware of the diffuculties but i don't want to give up porting my favorite game to have it on the go..plus alot of people like it too xD

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WoW on N900?

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no way lol...its not even on Linux..and check the minimum specs.. :D
but it would be fun... Homeworld is probably the only commercial game that has a big chance of being ported

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oh, i thought blizzard was kinda cool with linux :D
i'm sure they want to be able to access WoW remotely, and among the interesting candidate devices, N900 is up there.

iPhone = financial lure due to easy monetization
N900 = technical lure due to the form factor (though it's not more powerful than the iphone 3gs :D)

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Defcon & Uplink !!!

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*sigh*

Sometimes, I wonder why I even bother.

Please check my previous posts in this thread.

Re: PC Games you want ported to Maemo 5?
 

Are there any change we got a port of Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2 ???

If no, this sucks ....

















irony inside

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How about warzone2100 since it's also Free Software? also maybe: http://ja2.dragonriders.de

Source available but it has some non-commercial and such limitaitons ;)

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The more problematic limitation is this: :)

Q: What platforms are known to work?
A: Currently known to work are x86-based versions of FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS X and Windows. NetBSD should work, too. If it works for you on another platform, feel free to tell us. It should run on every x86 based System with SDL.

Q: Why is it limited to x86?
A: At the moment the code is dependent on little endian, 32bit architecture and no strict alignment (Sir-Tech didn't intend to use it on anything else than x86). It is planned to fix this limitation.

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Although it has been discussed before (and generally thought not possible). How about total annihilation? I recently found this site - ta3d.org where someone is working on a linux port. Essentially seems to be rewriting the executable and using the balance of the original game files.

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I relaly tihnk the communitty has to drop everything their working on and port Crysis to Memo 5. This way every1 will take the OS more srsly and we can kick iphone's *****.

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Crysis is sooo 2007... I think multiplayer Halo3 ODST would make the N900 awsum !

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JA2:Stracciatella seems to work just fine: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=16138. Not so sure about Halo3.
I'd be happy with an OpenGL ES port of FS2_Open, for starters.

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Jagged Alliance 2 should be in extras-devel for n8x0 already thanks to qwerty12.

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Doom, Quake, Quake 2

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Freespace 2!!
ScummVM
Mame
Nes/Snes Emulator
NeoGeo Emulator

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Descent.... that would be just sweet!

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Doom, Quake 1/2, Descent 1/2 and the emulators are easy - they're available for the current tablets too.

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Ahh.. but do the current emulators run full speed ;)

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More or less. I'm playing Chrono Trigger in DrNokSnes with about 30 fps. ScummVM and VGBA are also very fast. The emulators for older hardware should be even faster.

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I've always wanted a port of Incubation by Bluebyte. It was a squad level third person view turn based strategy game and kept me occupied for hours. The two problems are that it was Windows 95 DirectX based and is still closed source.

The other game I'd like would be Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic. There was a Mac port, so a Linux one isn't totally out of the question. Still closed source though AFAIK.

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Ahhhhhhh! Just thinking about Descent with accelerator support ...

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Neo Geo/ Mame Emulators that actually work! :P

I'd love to play some of those older arcade games..

AirBusters and Raiden II were some of my favorites!