I looked at Descent 1 and 2 but they suffer from the same problem as other commercial games with open engine and closed data: you can't distribute the content via the repos so it can never be end-user friendly. That was enough to discourage me from putting more time into it. It seems like the shareware version might be ok to distribute, though, so maybe there was something else to it. I really should keep notes.

Descent 1 in its original incarnation could certainly have run on the N900 without GLES acceleration--in fact, there was a descent port for an earlier version of maemo iirc.

So far i have one report of success and one of failure at getting this package to work. Anyone else?