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Posted By

Gaia
on 2006-03-27
11:12:55
 Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Just to let you know, it's now official: within a couple of weeks a revamped port of Yape to the Pocket PC platform will be available from Clickgamer as the official Pocket Commodore plus/4:

http://www.clickgamer.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=4650&section=PPC

It is mainly targeted for playing C16 and plus/4 games but will have a very good level of compatibility/performance factor I believe. Stay tuned!

Posted By

Chris
on 2006-03-27
11:56:19
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

This is excellent news happy If I had a PPC, I would definately purchase this.

Thanks for all your hard work with Yape happy

Posted By

Csabo
on 2006-03-27
12:31:17
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Very nice! I'm ready to buy a Palm version, just name your price! happy

Posted By

Lacoste
on 2006-03-27
12:53:33
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Wow!! That's nice, and the price is great !! Thanks.

Posted By

Luca
on 2006-03-27
13:41:19
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

I never had the need for a palm stuff...since now happy

Posted By

JamesC
on 2006-03-27
23:33:56
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

If we buy this, are we rewarding Gaia for his hard work? Or does all the profit go to Commodore International under the ruse of "trademark license"?

Myself, I'd rather send money direct to the author, rather than let the big corporations eat up all the profits for themselves.

Posted By

Gaia
on 2006-03-28
00:36:21
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

The share of the license holders is pretty minimal, and the deal is fair as the distribution and marketing are done by the publisher.

Posted By

Rachy
on 2006-03-28
02:12:27
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Gaia: any steps forward to maintain portability? happy
I am really looking forward to port Yape to the new AmigaOS...

Posted By

Gaia
on 2006-03-28
02:48:29
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Rachy: no, Pocket C+4 is an almost complete rewrite from scratch.

Posted By

Crown
on 2006-03-28
05:09:52
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Does it support VGA resolutions and Square displays?

Posted By

Gaia
on 2006-03-28
06:36:38
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

No VGA support for now. Scheduled for next release. Square displays are taken care of though.

Posted By

Gaia
on 2006-04-03
01:58:48
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

An update: the URL is now http://clickgamer.com/plus4, and also VGA will be supported happy

Posted By

Crown
on 2006-04-14
10:54:44
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

No D64 support?

Tried to load D64 files and crashed it so bad, that Hard reset was not working on the emulator...

Extremely slow on a VGA Toshiba E800.

Posted By

Crown
on 2006-04-14
11:14:12
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Speed is fine on non VGA PDAs...

Gaia, you should have the screen rotation button enabled on 2003SE and WM5 devices as well. Instead of using software rotation use the available API (ChangeDisplaySettingsEx), it works fine.

Posted By

Gaia
on 2006-04-14
11:37:55
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Yeah, no D64 support for now, because most classic games are PRG's anyway. It will be added in next release though. Software rotation should work on 2003SE unless your device is VGA and/or square display. As for rotating with the WinAPI: not sure many would like it as it affects everything. Just tell me what you prefer.

Test was done on many VGA devices, not sure why the Toshiba is so slow Oh, just see it's a WM2003 device with VGA. I am using raw frame buffer access via ExtEscape but not GAPI (it's deprecated and prone to screw things up) so if the former is not supported (it can happen as Microsoft made it obligatory only from 2003SE) you're out of luck :-(

Posted By

Crown
on 2006-04-14
12:56:45
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

Actually this is a device has been upgraded to the 2003SE ROM.

Posted By

Gaia
on 2006-04-14
15:24:37
 Re: Surprise for Pocket PC owners

'ExtEscape' was up to the OEMs to implement before 2003 SE, so even if you upgrade the ROM it's not supported if the OEM hasn't implemented it. I'm gonna google around to see if it's really the case.



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