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Thanks. What a grotty room!

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My IS is acting up so it's a bit shaky until I re-convert it, but here is another snippet at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiF60oWAsJI (should be HD, but apparently it will take a couple more minutes before the full res version appears). If Karoliina was recording video and not just stills, her version should be the best (was she shooting as an offical Nokia photo person or just for fun ? :) ).

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just for fun!

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Was that video taken on an N900? If so, the quality is pretty impressive!

}:^)~

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Q3 seems to be dying left and right for me now... oh well. :/

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Sorry, that's a Nikon D90 if you're referring to my link.

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Since GlQuake has been available on the older tablets it might be possible to get the Quake I aerial combat mod Airquake running. This stuff was a lot of fun back in the nineties, I even got a theatre group to record some radio communications for it...

http://web.archive.org/web/200605091...quake/air1.jpg

In the perfect world this would be available in the tablets with following:

• GlQuake ported over
• its own .desktop file so you can go directly to Airquake without having to use command line
• on-screen buttons for stuff like firing, throttle, radio commands
• accelometer for flying the plane
• easy way to get multiplayer (Telepathy Tubes?)

http://web.archive.org/web/200605091...ke/aircity.jpg

Airquake was made by Iikka Keränen, it might be possible to convince him to open source the mod.

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I tested ioquake3 engine with Openarena data files.

Here's a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6vDr47ZuW0

It runs pretty good, but at least the first Openarena level is a bit heavier than quake3 demo level. Best part is that Opearena is completely opensource so we can easily make a complete package with engine and datafiles which can be distributed through Extras repository.

I think that Openarena has slightly patched ioquake3 engine, so what needs to be done is to combine Openarena and ioquake pacthes and make a proper package based on debian/ubuntu packages.

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@mikkov,

It looks as though you are clicking off-screen to auto-aim. Is this true?

}:^)~

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No, there is aimbot. Off-screen clicking is firing using the proximity sensor.

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Ah, got it! Quite an interesting use of that feature. A poor-mans multi-touch!

This would be useful for toggling clicks between two states (ie. scrolling/panning vs manipulation).

Thanks for the vid! I look forward to more! ;)

}:^)~

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I noticed the same two problems with single player Quake 3 that mikkov noticed with single-player OpenArena.

- Engaging bots in a fight caused the game to slow to almost a slideshow
- Screen blanking still occurs if you don't use the touchscreen

Also, I don't like the look-via-touchscreen method, my finger is always in the way.

But otherwise it seems really good. The most impressive demo for the device so far (even better than Bounce ;) )

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Did anyone just say urban terror?

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One reason I laugh at these devices with games, without keyboard, with input method finger touchscreen, ouput method same touchscreen.

However the impact of using a stylus in this case might be less than using finger. Have you tried with stylus?

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One feature I could implement is offset aiming. You would use your finger on the left/right of the screen so that it's not obscuring your center view, but still aim as if you were in the center... This, along with less agressive auto-aim might be quite nice...

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I've been thinking. The touch screen does not need to handle horizontal looking. You can turn your whole body by tilting instead. Just implement up-down looking using the touch screen, and make it so you can use your finger anywhere to do it (eg, the far left or right of the screen).

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Raiden 2 and Air busters FTW!

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Hi guys,
I saw Quake III running nicely on N900 during the Maemo summit..
Unfortunately I'm not a big fun of Quake III arena, but I really love Tremulous.

Is someone trying to port it to N900? It's make use of Quake III engine but it's a free
opensource game.

For more information about it check http://tremulous.net/
Packages (bin + data) are part of K/Ubuntu

gnuton@iron:~$ apt-cache search tremulous
tremulous - Aliens vs Humans, team based FPS game with elements of an RTS
tremulous-data - Tremulous datas
tremulous-doc - Tremulous documentation
tremulous-server - Tremulous server

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This is a nice idea. I think I'll spend some time tonight and implement it, if I'm not working too late. :p Should be simple to do, though. Thanks.

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If tremulous is using unmodified ioquake3 engine, then it's very simple. If there are some modifications it would help if they were documented somewhere.

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Two bugs which makes ioquake3 not ready for end users imo:
1. Task switching doesn't work.
2. very hard to exit the game

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yes, what is the key combo for pulling down the console again?

Ah, here it is:

So pull down the console with Fn+Ctrl, then type /quit to get out.

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Maybe he's referring to how it can sometimes lockup when exiting, leaving input totally fubared?

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Very hard to exit the game, as I said :)

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There's installable openarena in extras-devel btw

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Bad news, UT4 is unplayable. It took several minutes to load a map, and the input is all messed up.

I have no idea why it is so slow...

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UT4??? :confused:
What game is that??

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Urban Terror 4. See the quote in my post.

To be fair, Urban Terror is a resource hog on the desktop too. It looks like Quake3 in terms of graphics quality, but it requires a much more powerful machine to run smoothly. Don't know why...

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Interesting... Thanks! ;)

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Hi guys,

I have the same problem. After adding dlevel
Can't install ioquake3: Application packages missing: opengles-sgx-img-common (=0.20090218.55.1+0m5)

Any help with that?

I have 40-12 PR SW version.
Do I need to add something extra?

Thanks

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I'm also facing the same problem. What should I do?

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Just checking. Do you have N900 and which firmware version?

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Yes I have N900 and SW is from wk42. It's unofficial release, so it might affect on this problem. All the libs might not be available for this. I'd better wait for a while or just go back to official PR release.. :)

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opengles-sgx-img-common version has been probably changed since 41-10 and ioquake3 should be recompiled. Strict version number requirement might false though, you could test if openarena works if you're interested

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With the release firmware quake and especially openarena is much faster. Openarena is even 50% faster. Not that I made any measurements, but did anybody notice the same?

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Yes, it looks much faster.

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Bit of a newbie question, but how to I copy the files to the baseq3 folder, it's not visibile in file manager..?

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What I did:
Connect the device to a PC via USB and download your full baseq3 folder (the "N900" drive is your MyDocs folder)
Disconnect the device
Link the new baseq3 folder to your hidden one in your home directory:

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Can't get this working...maybe I'm doing something wrong with the directory...just comes up with a black screen and a lil circle loady thing on the app bar :(