Hi all!
After a lot of tinkering, I've managed to bring an NEC MobilePro 900
back to life. I bought it on eBay ages ago and it seems to be working nicely now although the battery doesn't last terribly long - probably no surprise for a device of this age.
As a total beginner to this device and platform, I'd appreciate some guidance with a few basic questions / topics:
1. The stylus and resistive display seem to work pretty well, but I notice that it loses calibration fairly quickly, sometimes after only 10-15 minutes of usage. I can go through the re-calibration routine easily enough, but it's pretty annoying to have the 'touch point' drifting so quickly. Any tips on making this work better?
2. I've been digging around online for cool apps and games to run on this thing, but I haven't made much progress. I was up late last night and managed to get Frotz working so I can play all my old favorite Infocom text-adventure games, which is pretty great. I also found and installed the "
GAPI for Handheld PC's" package, and seeing the little graphical tech-demo apps running was really cool! However, I'm totally lost while trying to find more apps and games I can run on this thing. So many download links are long dead, and the ones I have found are for a huge variety of PocketPC / Windows CE / HPC2000 devices, I'm having no luck at all honing in on stuff suitable for this device specifically. Any tips or suggestions on this?
3. I've ordered a CompactFlash-based 802.11b card from eBay which old posts here indicate should work well enough
(I should know in about a week, once it arrives
). However, I'd love to find a serial cable for this thing too, but those seem to be almost totally unobtanium. Anyone have an idea where I might find one, or have a spare I could purchase?
I think that's it for now - thanks in advance for any beginner-level guidance you guys can offer!
Huxley