Porting FO2 for Microsoft Mobile 2003 (pocket pc OS)

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The reason I came up with the idea is because I have a pda, a palm tungsten E. My pda would never have the power to run fo2, but the new pda:s for asus, fujitsu siemens, HP etc have a screen resolution near fo2 own resolution.

The size of fo2 isn't the issue, you can pick up a 1G SD card for around 50 bucks.

the problem is that the OS is totally different, I myself have no knowledge or experience in modding FO etc. But thought to bring up the idea here.

FO2 can be played completly without a keyboard, minus the character name thingy, but that can be solved by the virtual keyboard.

Think about it, spending you time in the loo playing FO2 on you spiffy Asus 730, and not just inthe loo, but anywhere you want, wireless wasteland trotting anywhere.

I would by a new PDA just for that sole reason, a FO2 modded for Microsoft® Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition etc.


Tell your thoughts about this topic, and if you have any idea on how to make this happen please lets do something about it.
 
Well first off, you can't port an application if you don't have source code, and we don't. Secondly, those Pocket PCs run on a different instruction set (usually StrongARM) which is not compatible with x86. So I really don't think you can do this.

However, PCs are becoming very small these days. I've built several that are not much bigger than a PDA, and fully PC compatible. Here is one example of a small PC that can run fallout. Those were custom built, but you could run fallout on off-the-shelf cappucino or similar. I am working on a new one that will use a display like this.
 
I was trying to remember the name of this yesterday. The OQO is not much bigger than a PDA but is fully PC compatible, should be able to run fallout.

http://www.oqo.com/

Also a good chunk of change.
 
hehe, I few years back I remeber seeing some real good bar code scanners that had a 386 CPU inside and were running DOS :) I suspose by now they could be running with nice Pentium MMX CPUs and DOS.
 
Mangler said:
There are many PC x86 emulators out there...
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Trying to emulate IA32 hardware on for example a 400Mhz PXA255 (X-Scale StrongArm) would be pretty damn slow. You really think this would work for games? I am very skeptical.

The next mobile machine I build will likely use this board. I have one in same form factor that is 1Ghz VIA but it consumes too much power and runs too hot. Even if I clock it down to 667Mhz its not satisfactory. However, I have used the Crusoe hardware before and it runs a lot cooler and leaner.

BTW for handhelds this new Vaio looks sweet.
 
I've used the second one (DOS Box) before and the emulation is fairly heavy on the procesor. I cant even run Crusader Nor remorse on my home PC as it is to slow (Celeron 1.7 GHz) which when you think I used to play Crusader on my old pentium 75 with ease it makes you relise that the emulation is a little slow.

I tried System shock 1 the other night and it was incredably slow too (or the opening movie was anyway) which my friend used to play on his 486 computer.

So its probaly a better option to use a compact hardware device rather than emulation on a different OS. Of course if we jsut had the source code..... (boy I never get tired of saying that!)
 
I've fiddled with the DOSbox emulation a fair bit...if you don't mind it running abit slow with no sound you CAN get pretty close to normal speeds.

The is also QEMU, which is supposed to be fast(er).

for PC on PC emulation there are fast virtualization programs.

See: http://www.vmware.com

but I have not seen anything for handheld platforms (unless you count the odd sub-notebook as a 'handheld')
 
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