http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/ Engadget Comments for Quake 3 ported to Android, shows off Droid's graphical prowess (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/I think it is already fairly easy to attach a generic blutooth gamepad. ]]>Feb 25th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/milestone is multi-touch right?
they should make mouse look with one finger touching
and when a second finger touches it fires.
would feel more like a mouse]]>Feb 25th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/ain't they the same thing?
im from australia and we don't have the whole droid thing so i'm used to calling it milestone.]]>Feb 25th 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/They're the same thing with slightly different roms.

Android 2.0+ has multitouch built in to the API. You could do multitouch on older versions (like the hero which is 1.5 but has flash and multitouch in the browser) but you had to do it manually.]]>Feb 25th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
Nah dude, attach a freaking Logitech Mouse and pwn fools on that shiz.]]>Feb 25th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
I just want to play SuperMario 64 on a Droid...and I'd be happy. :)]]>Feb 25th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 27th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/I use a Bluetooth gamepad for all phone FPS, Racing and emulator games. There are a few to select from and are quite portable. Playing these games on a touchscreen results in a few minutes of novelty, but long-term, gameplay is impossible]]>Feb 25th 2010 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
http://shop.brando.com/bluetooth-gamepad_p01384c0303d058.html

But it works well with other BT smartphones.]]>Feb 25th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://code.google.com/p/kwaak3/]]>Feb 25th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
lolwut?]]>Feb 25th 2010 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Then your friend shows you NOVA and you'll feel all inferior again. Good one. ]]>Feb 25th 2010 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 27th 2010 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://koti.mbnet.fi/hinkka/

Connected to TV out, using bluetooth mouse and keyboard for control!]]>Feb 25th 2010 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/i bought a 3Dfx VooDoo3 to play Quake3 11 years ago, i still remember waiting 2 minutes when the game is loading, in this phone it takes 12 seconds.....]]>Feb 25th 2010 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/at the same time, flash was already available

... :P]]>Feb 25th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
Droid and Nexus one have no problem scrolling through long lists with no lag at all. Its actually one thing they do better that than most anything else.]]>Feb 25th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
I remember when everyone in the computer lab had to play Wolfenstein 3D in a little postage stamp sized viewport in the middle of their screen to run at a usable frame rate.]]>Feb 25th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Yep, that's the one point which really annoys me with Android.
It seems like nothing in the UI, not even a simple list of text items ever exceeds an animaotion speed 15 frames per second. Especially if you are used to the butter smooth scrolling on an iPhone.

Okay, maybe the Nexus One does better, but on my Magic and on the Droid a played around for a bit the UI almost always feels a bit sluggish and laggy. Not in an unusable way, not even close. It's just a bit annoying.

I guess one day they will finally manage to draw the whole UI using OpenGL.
And release a JavaVM with the "Performance addon".
]]>Feb 25th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
Last I played it though was on the iPhone 3GS (http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2009/06/quake-3-on-iphone-3gs.html); looks like the performance is pretty much the same (high FPS on the iPhone but it has less pixels so it doesn't count).

Of course the Quake 3 / id Tech 3 engine is the basis of ngmoco:)'s Eliminate. It's nice to see that 11 years on it still has a place in the world :-)]]>Feb 25th 2010 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Yes but iPhone was playing this at the resolution that is 4 time smaller !]]>Feb 25th 2010 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/About 2.5x the resolution in fact. Somehow I don't think fillrate will be the limiting factor for screen sizes like this either.]]>Feb 25th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
How do you know if the droid is even running at native resolution? It could be the same and jsut be scaled.]]>Feb 25th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Yeah, native code execution is much faster so WinMo has the upper hand in that respect. Hopefully the Android NDK allows for some improvement in application performance though.]]>Feb 25th 2010 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
Lets face it... so far its just a gimmick for showing off, no real playability here.]]>Feb 25th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/For gameplaying a 5 way d-pad is much better. The only things the trackball is better than the D-Pad for is doing things you should be using the touchscreen for anyway!]]>Feb 25th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
I do not fully agree with that. While i dig a Controller-like D-pad, i have yet to see a phone with a propper one for gaming. In Fact, the only mobile Device with a propper one ive ever held in my hands was the ASUS A620 PDA, which was a blast to use for NES/SNES/Gameboy Emulators.

Secondly, i see onscreen controls working for games that require a D-Pad, but for FPS Games like Quake... nono.]]>Feb 25th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
(cf. how Droid had extremely inaccurate finger-input compared to iPhone, in older Endgadget post)]]>Feb 25th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Dude, that "report" was debunked. It was by one guy, with no scientific basis. Yea, everything you read on the intertubez is really real. Geezus.]]>Feb 25th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Feb 25th 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
Thanks in advance]]>Feb 25th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/
What comes to Java - well, Android's Java is not Java ME or Java SE - it has Java's syntax, but the Dalvik virtual machine is far more optimized and powerful to anything you've come used to with regular Java.]]>Feb 25th 2010 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/Thanks! I'm going to try and research a bit to fully understand what u wrote]]>Feb 25th 2010 7:03AM