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Great review Ben -- thanks!
How would you compare the button "action and feel" with GameBoy Advance or with the PS2 DualShock controller? (well, aside from no vibration support - heh, imagine the battery drain then!)
More pictures would have been nice, particularly a profile view of the Clie with Game Controller attached - though it's probably quite similar to the PEGA-KB20 Mini Keyboard as seen in an earlier PIC review :)
Nit-picks aside, GREAT review!
Cheers,
Dan
RE: Great review Ben -- thanks!
The button feel is good. Its not as good as the DualShock 2 controller, but I like it a lot more than the Gameboy Advance. One thing I didn't note: with my big hands, I found them feeling a little cramped after my 40-minute Columns session. It made me really appreciate the hand supports that full-size controllers have.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
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RE: Great review Ben -- thanks!
Anything that requires leaving the serial port open will affect battery life. The line drivers, rate counters and CPU interrupt routines will all draw a little more current.
Columns? DaDa Racing?
K
RE: Columns? DaDa Racing?
BTW, a little warning: Columns and its associated database are over 1MB in size. I didn't notice this yesterday. When I synced it to my Visor Prism, it would not run on the device, giving an error message on load, so I assume it needs at least the CLIE's hi-res support to execute.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
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RE: Columns? DaDa Racing?
Your other left.
Don't you have that backwards?
RE: Your other left.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
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Can you easily press multiple buttons together?
RE: Can you easily press multiple buttons together?
Pressing both A and B together with one thumb can be done, if your thumb is fairly large, but it probably wouldn't even happen by accident.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
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RE: Numerical ratings?
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
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RE: Numerical ratings?
Design
Cost/benefit
Coolness
Overall
I thought this was a good system and I hope it is continued despite the new look and Ed's leaving.
News Reversed?
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Mario
O/T Mod
[url]http://www.wc101.com[/url]
RE: News Reversed?
"We will now list our most notable news article, denoted by the blue "Lead story" text, first at the top of the homepage. New articles will be listed directly below the lead story ordered by date."
So, while this review was the newest story, the new Sony devices is still considered the lead item.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com
RE: News Reversed?
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Mario
O/T Mod
[url]http://www.wc101.com[/url]
RE: News Reversed?
The lead story is old news now, but I'll just have to scan the first page now for updates. Other than that, love the site refresh Ryan, very clean design.
S.
new site... changes
Sony's gaming plans
Although game controllers for Palm devices are nothing new they were usually third party add on products. Palm et all prefered to market their devices with PDA functionality first. The processors, OS and hardware weren't really suited to gaming, OS5 and the new wave of faster processors makes much more of an option.
At the moment Nintendo is the only real player in the handheld gaming market, perhaps Sony wants a piece. Admittedly no one is just going to buy a PDA for games but OS5 might provide a useful gaming platform for a dedicated device.
Or maybe I'm talking rubbish.......
RE: Sony's gaming plans
C_Blue
RE: Sony's gaming plans
I'm concerned that the Tungsten TI ARM chip might be completely left in the dust by the Intel chip used in the Sony- but if it is not, that's probably the device I'll end up with.
The game controller might be excellent, but it isn't much good to me if it won't fit in my pocket with the PDA. I can't control when I get the urge to play a game. :)
How does it fit on the NR/NX?
Can it only be used in tablet mode or can it attach below the keyboard in clamshell mode? That would be useful for games that run in 430x480 like Bump Atack.
I'm assuming it won't work this way (after the NX series, I've given up on Sony working the way I want / hope), but I'm still hoping.
Thanks for all the great info Ed & Ben.
RE: How does it fit on the NR/NX?
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
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RE: How does it fit on the NR/NX?
Time for Super Nintendo Emulation
We have all that we need:
200MHZ Processor
Hi Res (SNES only uses 320x240 in its lowest resolution)
The Controller
The File System (Similar to Liberty's method of ROM conversion)
Who wants to take a crack at it? (Please?)
RE: Time for Super Nintendo Emulation
There's plenty of free emulator code out there... we'll just have to see whether the ARMlet architecture on OS 5 will really let you do the kind of porting and debugging you need to get them moved into Palm OS.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com
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What's up with this being below the old (albeit "lead") story? I'm still undecided about that, but I suppose it's not terrible. :)