does any one on here remember the game Chips Challange??? if not i have posted a copy of the game is there any way that some one can tell me how i can get it on my phone to play...
Of course I remember it
But, it's a very old game now (was originally made for Windows 3.1), and also, normal Windows apps don't work on Windows Mobile. Unless someone makes a clone of it for Windows Mobile, you won't be able to get it on your phone
Good idea, for any game developers reading this.
i love that damn game and it always seems like it changes everytime i play it
had it on the atari lynx, think it was the game that came with it, quality tho!
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Is it me, or has there been a huge lapse in development of console emulators for WM OS? Even updates of any emulator seems to have lapsed for a long time. There hasn't been any new updates or releases on many for several years. I'm not complaining, I just want to know why everything seems to have almost come to a halt. That and most of what is out there is either extremely buggy or doesn't work on many newer devices. Take a look at Pocket Coleco for example. yeah I know that is an ancient console dated to the early 80's. But, that was one of my favorite systems way back when...and well... Pocket Coleco just don't work right at all. The sound is totally screwed up and the controls don't work on many games. I'm sure P.C. worked very well on PPC's way back when WM 2002 etc was the current standard.
Any comments on this?
I never understood it because it seems to contradict itself.
One thing I hear a lot of is how hard it is to program for Windows Mobile devices. That it just isn't developer friendly as long as graphics and commands go. Can't say I know much about this since I'm not a developer.
Still at the same time I see a lot of crapware. By this I mean programs that are just constant repeats of each other and sometimes it's just a crappy do nothing program. Don't get me wrong I know developers take time and work to do what they do, but OMG some of the programs are complete crap. The games are sometimes nothing more than sprites taken from other games with a simple jump/shoot interface added to them. Apps that make fart sounds. 20 apps that schedule tasks. 100 clock apps. 1 millions custom UIs. etc. Constant same things that in the end don't really make the Windows Mobile OS anymore appealing. What confuses me is if programs are really that hard to develop then why are so many people able to create and recreate the crapware that we see nowaday?
I think one of the main reasons is that
1) Windows Mobile has been around for so long, the crap just build up
2) (no idea about this) I'd guess that if you can write a program for Windows, Windows mobile is not that much harder, so a greater number of people know how to write ****ty programs.
The one nice thing about iPhone is the market place is so crap free, though I'd rather have to wade through the crap to find the priceless gems then have someone else decide what I could and could not have on my device.
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Even with just reading topic header all that came to my head is least you don't have an iphone as then there's a amazing amount
As someone with experience of what it's like to develop apps for Windows Mobile I can shed a little light on it. One of the problems is what Microsoft provide to developers - called the compact framework - i.e. it's toolkit for building program interfaces. The interfaces it produces are very basic at best, and if you want to do anything clever (e.g. gradients, transparency, iphone style animated menus, image buttons, etc. etc.) you have jump through a lot of hoops.
Developers should be able to concentrate on writing what makes their app good, and not worry about having to make the interface looking good - that should be Microsoft's job. Unfortunately Microsoft have only provided very basic looking stuff. That'll change with windows phone 7 though.
Of course (and to defend Microsoft slightly) the iphone is easier for apple to support developers as it is one phone - whereas windows mobile is multiple screen resolutions, multiple OS versions, different processors, different manufacturers.... etc. Again why Microsoft are moving to a more defined hardware platform with windows phone 7 specs.
But it is possible to right really good/fancy interfaces for windows mobile - I like to think I do - but that's not through any support from Microsoft. To write a fancy animated menu with nice blending of colours and animated zooms and swishing left and right etc. etc. on the iphone takes 5 minutes. To do the equivalent on Windows Mobile took me about a month of writing my own GUI toolkit.
When it comes to games there's no excuse - the fact I can run playstation games such as Tekken 3 on my HD2 shows that it's capable of amazing things. The games companies need to stop shunting rubbish.
Ian
stylez said:
Moved as not software release.
Even with just reading topic header all that came to my head is least you don't have an iphone as then there's a amazing amount
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I'd consider this to be true too, but the only thing I can say is that at least they have a considerable amount of games and apps that are new, newer looking and some more useful than others here. I personally don't like iPhone and own an HD2, but I just notice how useless so many apps are whenever I look through the apps section in Handango, PocketGear and WM Marketplace. Not to mention how outdated most of them are too.
you guys forget that there are alot of windows ce 5 devices still in exsistence and they are still alive and kiking.... sort of...
as for the newer devices i love what they have done with htc hardware... altho the OS updates culd be readialy available to us mortals
as for the crapware.... you can allways uninstall the program or never run it if it came with your phone....
id like to say that the sence ui is mostly a bothersome resorce hog that i shut down every time i hard reset or try to get a rom that dosent have it cooked in, it culd also be considered as crapware....
Does anybody know any hacks for Android? I see a lot about iPhone online but can't find anything for Android......
I would particularly like Money/Stamps/Potions
I was actually wondering the same thing, I have it on my iPod Touch which easily has the quick hack of time changing to speed up the game but I'd like to get my Android one on the same level as my iOS one
EDIT: Scratch that time hack still works! Score!!
Hi,
I know, that isn't only one thread about TBS but I can't ask again...
Why is for Android (maybe for other mobile OS too) so less TBS like Warlords (and Warlords 2)? Warlords is for mobile touch displays perfect and no one develop them.
I see only "Populus Romanus" on market that looks like Warlords (look like Warlords more than other TBS like Android games).
Why, why not... why... :'(
Battleloot Adventure?
turn based RPG though
ive never played warlords though
anyways, wrong section =.=
Thanks for tip.
Also if this thread in wrong section, please, transfer it wherever you need
The best turn based strategy games on my phone are not android apps at all. The goto tbs strategy games I have are all run in andosbox.
Master of Orion
Master of Orion 2
Heroes of Might and magic II (I know there is an android port of this, but the ai is messed up, and running the original in a dos emulator the AI works much better. It is just fairly hard to find the original (you wont find it on google, but there are search engines that will find the dos version).
Hello xda staff i want to know if i can run windows xp/7 games on android
btw ive looked up the net a bit and here what i got
i was searching for running windows xp games on android
first ive came things like ue ur pc as a server (teamwiever kinda) but that requires a waste of energy
and doesnt runs as smooth as we want
then ive looked up a bit more and ive found windows emutors for android [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465365]
but for me and general gamers we dont want to get other windows stuff we want to play games only
+ this method was still not smooth
than ive came up with an app that enables you to run windws 95 apps on android but still not xp [http://www.winulator.com]
than since we know android uses linux ive looked same thing for linux and ive came up with [http://www.winehq.org]
than i looked a version of vinehq on android and ive came up with this
[http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=8230]
than i found a guy that made it (on xda)
[http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258506]
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but im not sure if i can run elder scrolls or age of empires kind games
so can any1 help me on that??
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Hello xda staff i want to know if i can run windows xp/7 games on android
btw ive looked up the net a bit and here what i got
but im not sure if i can run elder scrolls or age of empires kind games
so can any1 help me on that??
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No android cant run these games and it wont be able to do this in a couple of years. Today's hardware is too weak to emulate games made for x86 CPU's. It is possible to port these games to android but it means completely rewriting these games so it will never happen.
At this point in time I know of two apps that may help you, so long as you have a gaming PC capable of running whatever it is you want to run:
Kainy
Splashtop Gamepad THD (Tegra 3 devices only)
I haven't used either of them, so I can't attest as to how well they work or their worth. Neither run the games directly on your device, but streaming is where some believe the mobile gaming industry is headed (including Nvidia with their recently announced Project Shield).