The very first game I ever owned was the commercial version of a shareware game called Anacreon. It is a strategy game, and it is available here.
The author of the game, George Moromisato, has released a version of the game for Windows, for free. It is available here.
The source code to the DOS version is available, in Pascal. The fancy has recently taken me to port this fantastic game to Windows Mobile, and C# is my personal development tool of choice. I would love to fully port the game, but my Pascal skills are, sadly, dismal.
I am working steadily, if slowly, and I would like to put out this call to all those who are willing to help. While I do *NOT* need testers (not any time soon, anyway), I would take help from anyone who is able to either read Pascal, or write C#. I've set up a Google Code project at http://code.google.com/p/anacreon-wm/, and if you are willing and able to help, I would greatly appreciate it.
HI, I am new, this is my first real post so if this is posted in the wrong area sorry.
SO, I was working with a zune developer on an RTS and I had a large amount of art done for it. He got overwhelmed with the project and so I am looking for someone who thinks they can tackle an RTS. I have all gesture commands and ui layed out as well as basic unit properties. I have about a dozen fully animated sprite units and about 6 buildings complete so far.
If you think you are upto the challenge OR have a solid game that you would like some killer art done for let me know. BUT, I want to see it is some app store, I dont want to waste my time with a fizzled project.
If you want to use sprites I have already made thats cool, I would only request a cut when the game goes on an app store.
Very nice sprites, and the game looks good so far. Were you able to keep the source or do you plan on starting from scratch?
all info pertaining to the game can be found here.
I think the game is open source as others have dived into it. I know pathing was a difficult problem and did not have much of a solution. the project was for the zuneHD.
I will move this to SW development since this is an ongoing project, once you have a close to finished, or finished product PM me and I will move it back. IE Beta. .
~~Tito~~
Hey I'm a programmer looking for an artist to work with on various projects. I currently focus on Android development however I do have some experience with XNA / C# before (made a little tilemap engine on it and whatnot). I also just got my Samsung Focus registered on my developer account and have compiled a test sample on it just 2 days ago. I am really excited about Windows Phone 7.
I ALSO plan on making a fully crossplatform RTS at some point for iOS / Android / WP7 and I may be able to get started now. However, I would definitely want to sell it and keep it closed source / proprietary. Making an RTS is a HUGE task however, and will need a lot of planning and thinking ahead.
If you're in USA that's an extra bonus. If you have MSN Messenger that's another bonus. PM me if you're interested in working together on various projects.
There's a current "small" and cross-platform 2d game project I'm working on that I don't want to disclose publicly atm and we can discuss that if you have any interest in that, but I guarantee you I would love to make an RTS in the near future but merely lack an artist and an idea .
In my signature you can see all the devices I own for testing on. I am very inclusive, I love all smartphones.
I also do some music, I can show you some samples if you are interested in going further in regards to this.
Raptor550, I've sent you a PM, could you check please?
P.S. Seems like by default the PM notifications are disabled here.
Hi guys, I used to do a lot of theming for windows 6.5 and android and now I am looking forward to learning how to create apps for windows phone 7. Ive registered a dreamspark account but in order to finish the registration process I need to submit an app. All i need is a very simple app, nothing to complicated. I would create one myself but I self teaching myself from the ground up. I aspire to learn enough to put my graphic designing skills to good use and create a beautiful app this year (2011 goal!). I hope any of you guys can take the time to help me out. Thanks again
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Hi guys, I used to do a lot of theming for windows 6.5 and android and now I am looking forward to learning how to create apps for windows phone 7. Ive registered a dreamspark account but in order to finish the registration process I need to submit an app. All i need is a very simple app, nothing to complicated. I would create one myself but I self teaching myself from the ground up. I aspire to learn enough to put my graphic designing skills to good use and create a beautiful app this year (2011 goal!). I hope any of you guys can take the time to help me out. Thanks again
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If you're just trying to get your account activated you can submit a simple hello world app which should start the geo trust process.
A very good source of information on developing for Windows Phone 7 for beginners with zero coding experience is http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners
Hope this helps
Hi there,
I am planning to start some project in the NGO I am currently working in, a child aid organization in India. Therefore I bought some Zync Z930 tablet with 1,2Ghz CortexA8-CPU, 512MB DDR3 Ram and a capacitive touchscreen. Currently Android Ice-Cream-Sandwich (4.0) is running on it, but I want to install OLPC OS on it which is a Fedora-based distribution especially developed for the needs of children.
Actually, I don´t know how exactly to unlock the bootloader, root the device and install some other OS on it. Is there a general way or is this specific for every device? What about the driver support for the touchscreen etc.? Will it be the same as with Android? Furthermore, how can I make the device boot from SD-Card or USB?
To my knowledge: I have got some knowledge on GNU/Linux, I´m quite familiar with the terminal etc. and I have programming knowledge (C++), too, but none in Kernel or other low-level programming.
Sorry for not posting links to further information, but as this is my first post, I cannot post them...
If further information is required, please let me know it.
Thanks a lot,
badday
We're working on very similar lines
badday2 said:
Hi there,
I am planning to start some project in the NGO I am currently working in, a child aid organization in India. Therefore I bought some Zync Z930 tablet with 1,2Ghz CortexA8-CPU, 512MB DDR3 Ram and a capacitive touchscreen. Currently Android Ice-Cream-Sandwich (4.0) is running on it, but I want to install OLPC OS on it which is a Fedora-based distribution especially developed for the needs of children.
Actually, I don´t know how exactly to unlock the bootloader, root the device and install some other OS on it. Is there a general way or is this specific for every device? What about the driver support for the touchscreen etc.? Will it be the same as with Android? Furthermore, how can I make the device boot from SD-Card or USB?
To my knowledge: I have got some knowledge on GNU/Linux, I´m quite familiar with the terminal etc. and I have programming knowledge (C++), too, but none in Kernel or other low-level programming.
Sorry for not posting links to further information, but as this is my first post, I cannot post them...
If further information is required, please let me know it.
Thanks a lot,
badday
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Hello badday,
I'm from Mumbai ...
We're working on getting Sugar on similar devices..
We kind of have made some progress..
The idea is to get the kernel sorted out for the particular device, and the base rootfs over which the system can be installed over.
Want to participate in the effort?
Kindly join the mailing list at gnowledge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swarm
Happy hacking!
jquip said:
Hello badday,
I'm from Mumbai ...
We're working on getting Sugar on similar devices..
We kind of have made some progress..
The idea is to get the kernel sorted out for the particular device, and the base rootfs over which the system can be installed over.
Want to participate in the effort?
Kindly join the mailing list at gnowledge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swarm
Happy hacking!
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Hi jquip,
yes, I would be interested to join ur project, just need a little introduction and some more information. Do u guys have a git repo with the code on it?
Best wishes from Delhi,
badday
So I finally managed to install Sugar on top of Ubuntu on top of Android. First thing I did was rooting the tablet with adb commands, using "Complete Linux Installer", downloaded Ubuntu core, manually enlarged it to have enough space, installed lxde and sugar 0.90 from the official Ubuntu sources, started the xserver and vnc server and finally vnc-ed on the tablet into the graphical UI and started sugar.
However, currently I am facing the problem that e. g. turtle art will fail to start out of sugar but works fine when started just out of LXDE, so let´s see what the problem will be, stay tuned.
As I faced too many problems with Ubuntu, I changed to Fedora. Now activities can be started and it works like a charm...
Here are some pics: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcnpkf4a83dczea/dZCr0Rc4U9
Photos are great.
Those pics really motivate me to want to make this happen on the Yeahpad Pillbox7 I am working on to do the same.
I am curious about your work there in India.
I would like to network with you further and beyond the scope of xda-developers. That we can cooperate together on educational goals for children internationally using computer protocols is fascinating. Consider putting me in your Google+ circles (I am at j dot mp slash paulplus) and on facebook i am fb dot com slash paulgydos. you can reach me directly by email at paul at gydos dot com. also I am on twitter @paulgydos and for the tablet project the twitter is @yeahpad. I am about to mention you over there at @yeahpad. I particularly like Google+ lately as it is currently a more serious platform than facebook which on the other hand has the benefit of so many users.
Thanks again for your posts.
I sent you a friend request on facebook as I am not at Google+ and not frequently on twitter.
Nice to have somebody in the same boat.
joined the mail list
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"kernel sorted out for the particular device, and the base rootfs over which the system can be installed over" business
and getting ARM architecture away from proprietary-software like constraints seem like incredibly good goals.
so I joined the mail list and I'm reading through some of the archives.
What other places are people gathering around and working on such ideas?
I want to participate!
paul at gydos.com // twitter dot com slash paulgydos // fb dot com slash paulgydos // and also G+ address is j dot mp slash paulplus
bring me into it!
Hello,
I would like to hire a consultant to help me with my communications needs.
Specifically, I would like to hire someone who can step me through unlocking, rooting, and loading custom OS software on android phones.
I would also like help building my own development environments and setting up my own tools so I can do this myself with your instructions.
In addition to rooting/unlocking I am also interested in security and deeper UNIX internals of the phones, so if you are applying for this consulting job, you should have a very, very good understanding of UNIX/Linux and how the OS controls the phone (and how to control the phone from the command line).
DO NOT contact me about this consulting job unless you have worked as a consultant before and know how to write good documentation and how to create real deliverables ... this is a REAL JOB.
Please PM me here at xda-dev if you'd like to chat.
Thanks.