Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Irrlicht runs on Pocket PC emulator


The WinCE branch in the mirrlicht project now has the first screen shot. It's just a simple MD2 animated figure with a static text GUI element. The porting is developed using MS Visual Studio 2005. The rendering is performed by an OpenGL ES software implementation -- Rasteroid from Hybrid. It runs on a Pocket PC 2003 emulator. However, the frame rate is very low on the emulator (like showing slides). I've also encountered memory constraint and had to setup an emulator with 96M RAM and to increase the program memory( Start > Settings > System tab > Memory).

Note that if you want to try the program, you need to copy %VS2005_INSTALL_DIR%\vc\ce\dll\armv4\msvcr80.dll, rasteroid3.1\bin\wince\pp2003\device\libGLES_CM_NoE.dll, libEGL.dll
to the Windows directory on your device or emulator.

copy Branches\WinCE\examples\WinCE\HelloWorldStandAlone\Pocket PC 2003 (ARMV4)\Release\HelloWorld.exe to \Program Files\HellowWorld directory of the device or emulator.

copy Branches\WinCE\media\laalaa.md2, laalaa8.bmp to \media directory of the device or emulator.

I've packed those files together and you can downloaded at http://mirrlicht.googlepages.com/mIrrlicht-HelloWorld-WinCE.zip

Saturday, December 02, 2006

PuyoMobile update 0.1.1

The download link of PuyoMobile is updated to 0.1.1, which fixes the slugglish key response problem. The source code is also updated, accordingly. Check the project webpage http://limingchina.googlepages.com/puyopuyo.