[Exult-general] iOS (iPhone and iPod) - Exult

[Phillip T. G. <me...@ph...>]

(Not sure if anyone remembers me, but I was able to get Exult working on
the Pocket PC a few years back)

Ok, now, don't get too excited.  I've decided to take a look at to see
what how hard it would be to get Exult going on iOS (iPhone and iPod).  I
actually do not think it will be very difficult, as MacOS X and iOS should
be pretty close since it was done with SDL.  I have had official training
on iOS development and I have released a minor application to the app
store.  My question is this: Should the goal be to get Exult in the app
store or to just to get available to those who have jailbroken their
devices?

Obviously, users would have to have a way to load in their Ultima 7 data
files, unless we could convince EA to release it for free.  If we took it
to the app store (still without the data files), it could make Exult more
visible to EA and could start some trouble.  However, if we made it only
available to jailbroken devices, then it limits who can actually get their
hands on it.  I'd like some opinion from other developers (and facts if
available) on what route we should go.  I just know pissing off EA would
be very bad, and I do not want to do that.  The first thing is to getting
it working regardless, though I'd like for my work to benefit more than
just myself and other developers.

In other news, webOS (HP/Palm devices ... phones and the touchpad) appears
to be a pretty good Linux base.  I think someone wrote a howto somewhere
on how to get this working with webOS...  Regardless, its very very close
to Linux, so we might want to look to make a few minor tweaks to get it to
work/compile properly.  There's also some kind of packaging format that we
could create.  I have thought about getting a HP/Palm TouchPad ... then I
thought about how awesome it would be to play Ultima 7 on it ;)

-Phillip (A.K.A. Lanica Dragon)