StarCraft on the N800. Possible??
 

I was wondering if it were possible to port the classic 2D strategy game StarCraft into Maemo 3.0 compatible devices such as the N770 or N800. The requirements for the game are (Win: Windows 95 or better, 90 MHz Pentium, 16 MB RAM, DirectX-compatible, 2x CD-ROM drive, 640x480 8-bit display). I think the N800/N770's specs more than surpass the required amount. The only problem is on the developing side. Any devs up to the challenge? Im sure if this were accomplished many of us would donate fair sums of money :cool:

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It'd be quite cool, but Blizzard owns the rights to Starcraft, so there's no chance of porting the actual game and any attempts at re-creating it are going to be struck down by their legal department. In any case, I'd love to have SOME sort of RTS game for the Nokias.

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It almost runs on wine, so you wouldn't have to violate anyone's copyright, just port the libraries it needs and some sort of program that takes x86 instructions and makes 'em into arm instructions and require the end-user have the original disc to get the game program and data.

I love starcraft and I love my nokia 770, so I think it'd be great to have this, but I doubt anyone will bother (especially since it still doesn't work on linux with wine).

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I love it when non-programmers make comments to the effect of:

"All you would need to do"

or

"The only problem"

Re: StarCraft on the N800. Possible??
 

Hi,

maybe stratagus/wargus could be ported to maemo, but I suppose that would be work for more than just one weekend. (See http://wargus.sourceforge.net/ or http://stratagus.sourceforge.net)

Steelbutt

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there was a project called scsharp but googling for it does not find much useful information

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Actually, I am a programmer, and if you couldn't tell, I was being sardonic.

Re: StarCraft on the N800. Possible??
 

I hope that somebody will port a ms-dos emulator to 2006/2007 OS... I have a game which I will love to play it on my N800, the game is supaplex:

http://www.elmerproductions.com/sp/dlinst.html

-ioan

Re: StarCraft on the N800. Possible??
 

The main point is that the internet tablets we all know and love have arm processors, not x86 processors, so porting stuff we don't have the source code for is very difficult, as hinted at by Rocketman.

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In this case compiling http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/ for maemo may be a much better option :)

Re: StarCraft on the N800. Possible??
 

I'm just throwing the idea out there, StarCraft was just an example, but it would be great to be able to play some other classic strategy games. The N800 is a powerful device and im sure all of us would like to see some more intensive applications that take full use of it.

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I've played FreeRA (Red Alert) from within scratchbox, so my guess it that it will actually run. But unfortunately it's virtually unplayable and not much fun at it's current stage.

Getting DOSbox to 'work' should be pretty straightforward. Supaplex might just work on an N800.

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red alert someone please create something close to that game:D :D :D :D

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A bit of offtopic, but is there really nobody around who liked X-COM: Ufo Defense and would like to play something similar on Nokia Internet Tablets?

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I loved this game and something similar on the tablets would be cool.

You are planning something?

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Sure I am, have a look at my signature :)