I did quick and dirty ports of Descent 1 and Descent 2 for OS2008 (not tested with the older OSes). Only did a modification to enable the hardware pixel doubling and added a 400x240 resolution for it (use that for the best performance). Didn't do remapping of the default keys, instead i created a pilot with already remapped keys, tune it to your best satisfaction (right now the stylus is used for aiming, but maybe the mouse speed is slow). A virtual keyboard is needed for the saved games.

Attaching a screenshot (a very bad one


Okay, to the point:

Running Descent 1:
Install the deb from here: http://www.bundyo.org/maemo/d1x-rebirth/.
Copy these files in /usr/share/games/d1x-rebirth/ (works only with the full version):

Running Descent 2:
Install the deb from here: http://www.bundyo.org/maemo/d2x-rebirth/.
Copy these files in /usr/share/games/d1x-rebirth/ (tested only with the full version but probably works with the demo):

WARNING: D2X is case-sensitive! All files should be lower case.

WARNING: In both games if you start them not using the included USER profile, they start in 640x480 and will be slow. Also the keys have default mapping and you should update them.

You can symlink these directories to somewhere on a card if you want to, there won't be custom builds for other directories.

EDIT: Remapped the menu key to Save. Executable updated. If someone has ideas for key mapping - let me know.

EDIT: Created a deb file with menu item, icon and dbus service (not that you can alt-tab from the game yet Rewrote the instructions.

EDIT: Added Descent 2, removed the bigger resolutions from Descent 1.

That's all folks, have fun.

FPS anyone?? Oh well, I'll probably install it and see...

Edit: If I can find my Descent 1 CD, which seems unlikely enough at the moment. Anyone know what FPS I might expect? Trying to figure out how much effort to put into the search...

I haven't tried yet since I'm getting low on internal memory and can't afford losing more with game files. I'm crossing my fingers for a mmc version.

~12-13 fps, but very playable.

@Pushwall: you can do a symlink to a directory on the card, since the path is hardcoded in the executable and i don't want to maintain more than one of them.

Cool, that sounds good.

I already got such a symlinked dir made. Just need the files to populate it. I'll have to look harder, I guess.

Cool, thanks Bundyo. I'll give it a try since this was once of my favorite games way back when. I appreciate the advice. I've got the game around here somewhere just like Benson.....just have to look in all my closets and boxes until I find it.

Ok so I just got my N800. Just checked this games forum, and I see this post, I almost shite myself I kid you not. Dude i play this game all the tim coop with my best friiend, im about to call him and tell him some genius ported d1 to my tablet. Weve beat d1q and D2 countless times, but this is amazing, youve offiically inspired me to start learning how to port old dos games to tablets. This is awesome man thanks a million times over, and PLEASE keep up the work on it or d2 maybe too? Like i said, holy hell this is amazing, and i thought i was the only other person who still played this game. My favorite game now on my tablet ? Cool, I will even FUND you with paypal to keep up the work on this and other games i can think of as well, namely Commander Keen4.. Honestly Id be willing to pay you to do these games and perfect them for tablets. Thanks man, this is amazing. x10. Going to get mmy hog files.

You can fund the project - dxx-rebirth, i just ported it

Here:
http://www.dxx-rebirth.de/

Yea we play rebirth, Ivé talked with the creator as well a while back, heś´done a great job. BUt you ported for my tablet. What is it like extremely easy? I doubt it, Im´going to try to learn somee porting soon though. Ok so ive copied my hog and pig files over to my tablet on my 8gb sdhc, but im not sure what to do to install your file, or how to do it, is there an app i need to extract the file on the tablet? Help an utter noob? I apreciate it.

In the file there are an executable and a directory. You can copy the executable in /usr/bin for instance, and extract the directory in /home/user

The HOG and PIG files should be in /usr/share/games/d1x-rebirth, you can symlink it to the card too.

I'll try later to make a deb for it.