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I've been thinking about buying a N-Gage QD. It wouldn't be too expensive, because looks like my current phone is worth about 100 euros on the second-hand market. While N-Gage is far less convincing as a game device than, say, GameBoy Advance, it has other qualities. It's architecture is open and there's lots of free software available. That free software includes a C-64 emulator! Just imagine: a cell phone that is loaded with good old classic games.
It would be just the thing for me. I often find myself in situations where I need to spend 10 or 15 minutes of time, especially at the university. Playing Bubble Bobble or whatever would be nice. Carrying three different devices (cell phone, MP3 player, GameBoy) with me could get annoying, but I do always have my cell phone around. I think that's a major upside for N-Gage, that presence.
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Sounds groovy. Except there's no mp3-player in new N-Gage afaik.
Do you happen to know where one could get that emulator and games? And (which concerns me most) is that thing legal?
Posted by: John Turbo at August 23, 2004 1:04 AM
It's cool. For me, the lack of MP3 player is not a problem, because I already have a rather good MP3 player.
Frodo is available at http://koti.mbnet.fi/~havii... You can find games at C64 Unlimited http://www.c64unlimited.net...
As the site says, the games are legal if you already own a copy. Well, most people probably don't stick to games they legally own (and after all, we had probably about five legally bought games for C64, others - dozens of them - were illegal copies) but with most of the old games, I'm not sure if there's anybody who really cares.
Posted by: msaari at August 23, 2004 7:26 AM