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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 !!

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For most of them - none. Only Homeworld 1 has been open sourced.
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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...
 
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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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Originally Posted by Bundyo View Post
For most of them - none. Only Homeworld 1 has been open sourced.
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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Atomic Bomberman (Windows)
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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Originally Posted by McLightning View Post
hey folks ,have you seen this bounce game video?
http://symbian-freak.com/news/009/09...ks_awesome.htm
graphics are great!!!
yup, thats the reason i listed the games i listed in this topic, the n900 has the power
 
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