will System Shock run on a T|X

[aron1138]

I've seen what a Palm T|X can do in terms of emulation. Do you think it would be possible to get System Shock or SS2 to run on it?

[coder12]

Is the source code available? If not then no, it can't be run. I couldn't find the system requirements for it either, although I am unfamiliar with the game. If you could post a link to the source if there is one then that would be nice and any other info on the game would be nice too.

[aron1138]

D: never heard of it? I feel sorry for you . (It's alot like Deus Ex in awesomeness level. It's a fps/rpg/horror hybrid and it gets the job done.)

SS: 1994
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock
REQS: It came out in 1994... it's 16 bit graphics it runs on DOSBOX.
Aha a clue Sherlock! sourceforge.net/projects/palmdosbox

SS2: 1999
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock2

REQS:
* Pentium 200 MHz (300 MHz recommended)
* Windows 95 or 98
* 32 MB RAM (64 MB RAM recommended)
* 200 MB hard drive space (500 MB recommended)
* 4x CD-ROM drive
* 4 MB Direct3D-compatible video card or greater
* 4 MB Direct3D-compatible accelerator card or greater recommended
* DirectX 6.0 or later
* DirectX-compatible soundcard
* Windows-compatible mouse
* Keyboard

[countbuggula]

Maybe if the source was available, you could try a direct port, but with all the Direct3D, very unlikely that you could get it to work. Or it would take a whole lot of work to do the port.

I'm confused...was there a DOS and Windows version of this? Due to the high requrements it's unlikely that the DOS version would run at all on PalmDosBox anyways.

[aron1138]

no there were 2 games the first came out in 1994 and ran on dos the REQS are for SS2 only.

[coder12]

Well, it certainly won't run in dosbox with a requirement of 200+mhz.
And after doing a quick google search, I couldn't find the source code. And I'd highly doubt EA will release it to us.

[aron1138]

SS1 runs on DOSBOX in WinCE fine.

[metaview]

then try it on the palm