Open question to the PalmFrodo community. It seems to me that some games translate well to the small screen and the Palm's interface and others don't. What games do you think maintain their original appeal when shrunk down onto the Palm platform? What games are you having trouble getting going? I'd recommend stating your Palm of choice with the games as well, because some Palm's have more buttons than others and such...
I have a Tungsten C, so interactive fiction titles play really well with that little keyboard. Anything Infocom, for example. MULE seems to play really well... nice, simple controls. I find Archon difficult to control, personally. Pinball Construction Set works well, but navigating that little hand and trying to build a table with the Palm's buttons or the onscreen joypen is tricky and time consuming. Temple of Apshai Trilogy seems to be giving me control problems... cannot move up and down, but that might be because I don't understand it's interface yet. The Last Ninja is difficult to play properly, but Ms. Pac Man seems pretty playable, if a little touchy on the controls.
Still testing stuff from my library, but I'm curious to know other people's results!
Christopher Drum
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ACE 2
Steel Thunder
One Man And His Droid
Test Drive 1 (a little bit slow on T/E...)
Spy Hunter
Spellbound
Impossible Mission
Infiltrator
Summer Games
Winter Games
California Games
I had some Problems loading Games which use copy protection, like Test Drive 2 or Oil Imperium.
BTW: Has anybody a working version of Oil Imperium?
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So far Paradroids, M.U.L.E. , Boulderdash, and all sorts of arcade style games like ms pacman, joust, centipede and the like work flawlessly.
None of the ultima games are working due to crashes at any point that would save a game, but they load and run just fine simply *begging* for a solution to be found for the write protection of .d64 files issue.
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Actually Ultima I at least can be made to work except for in game saving, but you can use save game state to achieve the same functionality. Just don't use the 'q' command as it will crash the game. There's also a minor bug that kicks in after loading a game state which will cause the game to hang when you enter a town but this is prevented when you first load your saved game state by immediately loading another d64 image and then reloading the ultima1 .d64 image. No other bugs so far, the game seems completely functional.
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Open question to the PalmFrodo community. It seems to me that some games translate well to the small screen and the Palm's interface and others don't. What games do you think maintain their original appeal when shrunk down onto the Palm platform? What games are you having trouble getting going? I'd recommend stating your Palm of choice with the games as well, because some Palm's have more buttons than others and such...
I have a Tungsten C, so interactive fiction titles play really well with that little keyboard. Anything Infocom, for example. MULE seems to play really well... nice, simple controls. I find Archon difficult to control, personally. Pinball Construction Set works well, but navigating that little hand and trying to build a table with the Palm's buttons or the onscreen joypen is tricky and time consuming. Temple of Apshai Trilogy seems to be giving me control problems... cannot move up and down, but that might be because I don't understand it's interface yet. The Last Ninja is difficult to play properly, but Ms. Pac Man seems pretty playable, if a little touchy on the controls.
Still testing stuff from my library, but I'm curious to know other people's results!
Christopher Drum
M*U*L*E*
hands down the best 8 bit title to translate to the Palm interface.
Awesome. Just awesome.
M*U*L*E* seconded. For repeat playability, still the best game in 20 years. Doom gathers dust, M*U*L*E* still lives on.
Artworx Strip Poker-- the nekkid women look realistic again on that tiny screen. :)
Great Giana Sisters
wizball
Rampage :)
Laser Squad works pretty well :)
I tried these games and they work:
Annals of Rome
Typhoon of Steel
These games work:
Reach for the Stars
Computer Diplomacy
Are there any other games that run well on PalmFrodo?
Any other games work well?
Airborne Ranger works!!! Loved that game!!!!!
GOONIES :-) works very well !
Skyfox works :)
I agree Goonies run very well on Palm Frodo... :)
Leaderboard golf is great
Gauntlet works well ! :-)
ACE 2
Steel Thunder
One Man And His Droid
Test Drive 1 (a little bit slow on T/E...)
Spy Hunter
Spellbound
Impossible Mission
Infiltrator
Summer Games
Winter Games
California Games
I had some Problems loading Games which use copy protection, like Test Drive 2 or Oil Imperium.
BTW: Has anybody a working version of Oil Imperium?
The Magic Candle works IF and ONLY IF you don't use fastloading. Wizard's Crown works too!
Little Computer People!!! It works and looks just like I remember it!!! Just a bit smaller... ;-)
Blue Max works with beta 2 and 3 :-)
So far Paradroids, M.U.L.E. , Boulderdash, and all sorts of arcade style games like ms pacman, joust, centipede and the like work flawlessly.
None of the ultima games are working due to crashes at any point that would save a game, but they load and run just fine simply *begging* for a solution to be found for the write protection of .d64 files issue.
Actually Ultima I at least can be made to work except for in game saving, but you can use save game state to achieve the same functionality. Just don't use the 'q' command as it will crash the game. There's also a minor bug that kicks in after loading a game state which will cause the game to hang when you enter a town but this is prevented when you first load your saved game state by immediately loading another d64 image and then reloading the ultima1 .d64 image. No other bugs so far, the game seems completely functional.
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