Forum regular and community developer Nick Chiark's dropped us a note with info on the release of his first Handheld PC application, MagnetiCE.
Details below.
From all of the team here at HPC:Factor, great work Nick and good luck with the release!
A New WinCE Port of an Old Game...
Remember the 80s? Aaah, the halcyon days: Top Gun, power dressing and
dodgy haircuts, electronic music from the new romantics, Amigas with
Microsoft Basic and text adventure games.
Infocom were the main proponents of the genre, releasing consistently
playable and entertaining games, however Magnetic Scrolls were like a
supernova to the scene: they burnt brightly, and quickly, producing
excellent games with a quirky British sense of humour, and fabulous static
graphics. So not really like a supernova, but you know what I mean. Maybe.
Magnetic is an interpreter for the Magnetic Scrolls games which allows you
to relive those days where imagination was a necessary part of gaming. It
is available for many platforms, and the list of platforms has just
expanded with the Windows CE port of Magnetic.
You will find information about the games at the Magnetic Scrolls memorial
(
http://www.if-legends.org/~msmemorial/memorial.htm ), and the Windows CE
port of Magnetic at
http://www.chiark.com/techie
MagnetiCE, the Windows CE port, was written by Nick@Chiark.com and is
released under the GPL. It's his first Windows CE application, so be
gentle. If you enjoy playing the games and would like enhancements, or
possibly a more complete application, please drop him a mail to kick him
into life. It's in a sort-of beta state at the moment.
It is designed for Handheld PCs, and should work on anything running HPC
2.11 or greater with an ARM, MIPS, SH3 or SH4 processor. It's been
somewhat tested on a Jornada 720.
oopsie! 