>>Not as exciting as an NES emulator, perhaps, but all the more useful, StyleTap's Palm OS emulator for the Symbian OS has finally been released
Palm OS HAS an NES emulator. And a genesis emu, and an SNES emu, and....a hundred other emulators for game systems and other computers (plus MAME). Palm OS has been derided for 5 years now as being out of date because it didnt have multitasking - buit the iPhione doesnt have multitasking and when it came out, it was heralded as the second coming of Christ himself. And I say that as a person who think the iPhone UI is revolutionary - but the ecosystem means that 3rd party software is shit.
5 year old games on Palm OS are better than most iPhone games today. Home brew brought real, full ports of Duke Nukem 3D, the Doom series, etc., while cool original game like Warfare Inc brought us quality real-time-strategy gaming that I don't see anywhere on the iPhone - the phone that according to Apple is a better game device than a PSP. They should start with trying to beat a 10 year old PDA OS at gaming first - walk before they learn to crawl.
The iPhone is light-years ahead of Palm OS (or s60 while we are on the subject) in terms of UI - absolutely. But their rigid control over apps means that it hasn't even caught up with where Palm OS / WM / s60 were years ago as far as decent software. Apple fanboys talk about 11,000 apps. Well all three of the other OS's have considerably more - and better - apps, especially when it comes to gaming.
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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>>Not as exciting as an NES emulator, perhaps, but all the more useful, StyleTap's Palm OS emulator for the Symbian OS has finally been released
Palm OS HAS an NES emulator. And a genesis emu, and an SNES emu, and....a hundred other emulators for game systems and other computers (plus MAME).
Palm OS has been derided for 5 years now as being out of date because it didnt have multitasking - buit the iPhione doesnt have multitasking and when it came out, it was heralded as the second coming of Christ himself. And I say that as a person who think the iPhone UI is revolutionary - but the ecosystem means that 3rd party software is shit.
5 year old games on Palm OS are better than most iPhone games today. Home brew brought real, full ports of Duke Nukem 3D, the Doom series, etc., while cool original game like Warfare Inc brought us quality real-time-strategy gaming that I don't see anywhere on the iPhone - the phone that according to Apple is a better game device than a PSP. They should start with trying to beat a 10 year old PDA OS at gaming first - walk before they learn to crawl.
The iPhone is light-years ahead of Palm OS (or s60 while we are on the subject) in terms of UI - absolutely. But their rigid control over apps means that it hasn't even caught up with where Palm OS / WM / s60 were years ago as far as decent software. Apple fanboys talk about 11,000 apps. Well all three of the other OS's have considerably more - and better - apps, especially when it comes to gaming.
http://www.warfareincorporated.com/ ( for iphone )
oh btw I've got an n95 and n85... but I don't like to rant before I research