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Post by countbuggula on Nov 21, 2008 8:21:32 GMT 1
I love the idea of the Pandora, but I'm never going to carry around 2 devices. The whole point of having a Treo is that I have something that I have on my body at all time because it's my phone that I can pull out in slow moments to play games or do all sorts of other random stuff with. As of now there's absolutely nothing on the market that I have any desire to own to replace my Treo with, though, and nothing that's been announced either, until we finally get concrete details on what Palm's cooking up (not that I'm exactly holding my breath though).
I don't want a WM device. Period. So that leaves: iPhone - even if I didn't hate Apple it still doesn't have a tactile keyboard. Real buttons are a must. Android - poor support for programmers who want direct access to hardware. Blackberry - No touchscreen, bleh software support. Symbian - don't really exist in the US, especially not on a CMDA network, so not even an option.
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Post by coder12 on Nov 21, 2008 13:20:44 GMT 1
I love the idea of the Pandora, but I'm never going to carry around 2 devices. The whole point of having a Treo is that I have something that I have on my body at all time because it's my phone that I can pull out in slow moments to play games or do all sorts of other random stuff with. As of now there's absolutely nothing on the market that I have any desire to own to replace my Treo with, though, and nothing that's been announced either, until we finally get concrete details on what Palm's cooking up (not that I'm exactly holding my breath though). I don't want a WM device. Period. So that leaves: iPhone - even if I didn't hate Apple it still doesn't have a tactile keyboard. Real buttons are a must. Android - poor support for programmers who want direct access to hardware. Blackberry - No touchscreen, bleh software support. Symbian - don't really exist in the US, especially not on a CMDA network, so not even an option. You forgot the jitterbug! The only phone specifically made for tards! Also, I really wish sprint would open their eyes and get some symbians on the market for the users. Because then I could play clonekeen on the go! ;D Actually, our local swim team is buying me a treo 650 because they "forgot" to pay me for timing them all season.
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Post by nosoupforyou on Nov 21, 2008 13:35:24 GMT 1
Android - poor support for programmers who want direct access to hardware. If by direct access to hardware you mean Native Arm code (I don't know too much about this stuff) I don't think the android had any support for this when it was first released but now I found this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Android#Native_code so that either mentions the poor direct access to hardware support or that they now have good direct hardware access support. For me I don't want a windows mobile that much but WM7 looks decent and is better then the alternatives (I will never buy an iPhone) and who knows what Palm is doing.
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Post by setsuna203 on Nov 29, 2008 2:17:06 GMT 1
Netbooks are fast enough to even play PlayStation 2 games on it! There is a nice video on YouTube where you can see Tinnus running around in Final Fantasy X... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIz06dYzV-USo rather than buying a Pandora to play PSX1 games I would (still) prefer LJX on WinXP, especially after checking this terrible integrated-environment-thingy called Mednafen....
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Post by coder12 on Nov 29, 2008 4:05:49 GMT 1
I still don't understand why you just don't download different emulators for each console. I mean, I use Snes9x, Gens (for sega 32x, genesis, and cd), and I have different emulators on my wii too. I'm sure making a launcher would work for these too (to make it feel more like a vg suite). Also: Is that tinnus's channel?
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Post by setsuna203 on Nov 29, 2008 9:20:01 GMT 1
That's the point, of course there already are a lot of nice emu's but there's nothing which puts everything under one LJX-like launcher. And no, this is not Tinnus' channel but the character where his nickname derives from...
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Post by coder12 on Dec 14, 2008 18:41:40 GMT 1
Well, my treo arrived the other day, so work on PalmMultiTouch has finally (re)begun!
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Post by nosoupforyou on Jun 30, 2009 1:03:07 GMT 1
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Post by countbuggula on Jun 30, 2009 3:42:06 GMT 1
LJP, no, but LJX, quite possibly. Wow, now that android has official native application support, I might have to seriously start looking at android devices. They've been completely off my radar up to now.
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Post by haisook on Jul 20, 2009 12:48:26 GMT 1
May be somebody has mentioned it, but I'd like to see touchscreen support enabling directional input and a few onscreen buttons to tap on. Phoinix, a pretty old emulator has this feature, and it renders many games (especially the slow-paced games like RPGs) totally touchscreen compatible, without any need to press any buttons.
And of course, a working landscape mode for non-zodiac devices (I still don't understand why this is so hard to implement).
I think these features should've been implemented already, but I'd be glad to see them in your next release.
Thank you and good luck.
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Post by _Em on Jul 21, 2009 5:30:23 GMT 1
We have a complete thread (or more) dedicated to each of these requests, actually At this point however, if you want new features, you likely have to download the source and add the features yourself. That, or wait a year or two for Tinnus to finish LJX. The other threads describe the difficulties in implementing landscape mode and responsive touchscreen support in excruciating detail, as well as the steps that have been taken to overcome these difficulties.
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Post by nosoupforyou on Oct 3, 2009 2:54:39 GMT 1
How's the progress on LJX so far? Your using SDL correct, so I hope this is good news www.anddev.org/port_opengl-sdl-tinysdgl_to_android_with_native_c-t3265.htmlI'm constantly going back and forth in my decision between a Pre and an Android, currently the Pre looks like the better phone, but it looks like as of now, the Android has more potential for better apps. Also there are rumors that webos will get webGL soon, would that mean LJX is a possibility or not? I'll probably be getting one them sometime in the next couple of months but as I said before, whichever phone has the greater potential for LJX or any emulator in general is the one I want. The Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 also looks awesome but won't be available in my area.
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Post by Tinnus on Dec 29, 2009 17:00:05 GMT 1
And no, this is not Tinnus' channel but the character where his nickname derives from... Actually it's not, my nickname is derived from part of my real name And no, I'm not dead, just having other priorities in life that prevented me from working on any side projects at all for the past year or so
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