

Doom Ported to Nokia phone 203
HellKrisp writes "UK based game developers WildPalm have released a port of id software's Doom for the Nokia 7650. Features of the port include audio support and bilinear filtering. The download weighs in at around 1.5MB as it is just the shareware version featuring only the first episode. The port was made using the source code publicly released by id software in 1997."
Oh Great... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a minute..
Re:Oh Great... (Score:2)
And kill themselves too...
Gives new meaning... (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh... No multiplayer? (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess modem play wouldn't work? Hmm... Well there has to be some way to port the multiplayer. Whether people would want to burn up their minutes to kill their friends on their phones is another story (I would)
Re:Ahh... No multiplayer? (Score:5, Funny)
Cruising down the highway at 65Mph. You kill the guy in the beat up shitty truck 3 lanes over and a few feet back.
He finally snaps, hangs up his phone, and procedes to side swipe you while yelling, "YOU FUCKING HACKER" out his window...
Re:Ahh... No multiplayer? (Score:2)
This would be a way to "port" GTA to the Nokia, as well!
Re:Ahh... No multiplayer? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Ahh... No multiplayer? (Score:4, Interesting)
Cheers,
Costyn.
Re:Ahh... No multiplayer? (Score:2, Interesting)
Since it is ported to a mobile phone, it would
be really cool if it could use some location based
service and convert doom into a multiplayer +
multilocation game.
For example, if the player was in a particular
mall or playground then the level would automatically be X but it would different if the player was at home.If this can be done, porting doom to a mobile phone will really make sense. Otherwise, we will end up just playing the same on a smaller screen. No real kick there.
Re:Ahh... No multiplayer? (Score:1)
Doom III (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Doom III (Score:5, Funny)
This is the last thing we need... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh the Commericals! (Score:5, Funny)
You were bored so you decided to do some kung fu.
I'm can now imagine some guy running around with a gun shooting people, then the sprint guy comes up and goes:
You were bored, so you decided to play a little doom.
I bet that'll be a BIG hit in Columbine. </sarcasm>
New test for feature completeness (Score:3, Funny)
I know something that isnt quite complete.... (Score:5, Funny)
tty quake (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:I know something that isnt quite complete.... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I know something that isnt quite complete.... (Score:1)
What??? (Score:1)
Oh well, at least this one wont (assumption) crash....
Next up... (Score:1, Funny)
Um, d00d. (Score:1)
Re:Um, d00d. (Score:2)
Maybe a motorola phone?
I was reading somewhere that a lot of the new generation of mobiles use the same or a similar processor to a GameBoy Advance - so it should be easy to run the same kinds of games on them.
Snake and memory.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Heh, enable bluetooth or something similar and play multiplayer with the guy sitting next to you in the airport or something.
I still wish I had a port of the Gameboy version of Tetris on my phone music and all.
quick reset (Score:5, Funny)
Start Mission Selection
3 Additional Game Modes:
Chainsaw Massacre, Killer Arsenal, God Mode
Quick Reset, when not enough memory is available
heh, i bet the Quick Reset feature was easy to implement :)
Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:framerate? (Score:1)
dont worry about your framerates... just watch out for Imps arround the corner.
Re:framerate? (Score:5, Interesting)
I was talking at a Nokia Developer Day (about Java in mobile phones), and was talking to another developer about choosing the appropriate games and applications to write to put on the phones.
I actually said, "It's not like you'll want to play Quake on a phone", and they showed me the Doom port.
It's pretty sweet, but using the little joystick thingy didn't make for a greatly easy gaming experience.
little joystick thingy improvement (Score:2, Informative)
http://nds1.nokia.com/press/photo/hot/jpeg/n_ga
http://press.nokia.com/PR/2002
Re:little joystick thingy improvement (Score:1, Informative)
Nokia N-Gage [nokia.com]
Nokia N-Gage press release [nokia.com]
I have played it too. (Score:1)
I'd stick with a gameboy advance... (Score:1)
Wow (Score:1)
Dont forget. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Dont forget. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Dont forget. (Score:1)
Re:Dont forget. (Score:1)
Re:Dont forget. (Score:2)
BTW if you dont know what the WAD is ill explain. Its simply a file with all the media on it. It has all the maps/monsters/graphics. You can even go into the WAD file and change the pics t change the game without messing anything up.
::rolls eyes:: (Score:4, Insightful)
Never mind that your spiteful little snipe is pretty poorly considered: the Quake II source is hardly obsolete - even Doom represents a very viable platform for game development (as I think the topic article demonstrates, no?). Besides, if anything you should praising Id's code release policy. First, games aren't apps with "essential functionality" (even Stallman has a hard time getting worked up over game code), so the concerns that prompted the development of the GPL are really not even applicable here. Second, unlike, say, Sun or IBM, Id's divulgence of its code is an act of pure magnanimity to students and entry level developers - that is, truly in the spirit of free software. By contrast, the typical poster boys like Sun and IBM are quite unabashed in their use of the GPL for purely self-interested reasons, usually screwing with Microsoft a bit or reducing their total cost of development for server systems.
I wonder how much money they'll make... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I wonder how much money they'll make... (Score:1, Interesting)
(For what it's worth, according to DoomWorld [chguy.net], id re-released the source code under the GPL in 99.)
Re:I wonder how much money they'll make... (Score:2)
IIRC, it didn't allow commercial exploitation either. So this Nokia port must be either GPLed, or they bought a separate license from id.
Re:I wonder how much money they'll make... (Score:1)
All in all, I would think that ID get a better return with the current modus operandi: goodwill from the hacker cummunity, insight from the mods other people make, a good rep overall: i.e., not just the hacking community - ports like this make it into mainstream, and if Joe Streetman knows any game dev company other than EA et al, it'll probably be ID.
The age old question (Score:1)
What? (Score:1)
Shocking (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Shocking (Score:5, Funny)
I reccommened Rez Special Edition with Trance Vibrator [gamegirladvance.com] for all your "stimulating" videogaming needs...I mean your sore back...right...
Re:Shocking (Score:3, Funny)
Cheat codes? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cheat codes? (Score:1)
your precious thumbs should be fine.
ahhh Precious thumbs... (Score:2)
And, I always lost at "thumbs" games when I was a kid.
It sucks being thumb-challenged as the cool gadgets get smaller and smaller.
Re:Cheat codes? (Score:2)
New commercial... (Score:5, Funny)
Can someone explain this? (Score:2, Interesting)
Also, I'm assuming they're distributing the original binary data for the levels (is THAT allowed?) yet at the bottom they urge you to buy the original version of Doom if you like the software. huh??
IDSPISPOPD? (Score:4, Funny)
doom phone calls (Score:5, Funny)
POW
gurglegurgle gurglegurgle
POW
oooohh
RYUNK
POW
uuuh uuuh
POW
oomph
POW
gurglegurgle gurglegurgle
POW
gurglegurgle gurglegurgle
oomph
shreooooww
POW
shreooooooo
oomph
SCROTCH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
oh yeah, i'm here, where are you?
what the hell was that bob?
A total waste... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:A total waste... (Score:2)
The 7650 has a camera. I give it 12 months before half the drunk teenagers in America has nude pics of themselves posted on the net somewhere.
Just what we needed (Score:1)
Then again, this could make for a cool new DOIP (Doom over IP) standard. Could Linux make GOIP (Gnuoom over IP)?
Re:Just what we needed (Score:2)
"To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero."
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
When the cyber demon enters the room, the blender goes into overdrive. It's insane. Toss some fruits in at the same time and by the time your game is over you got yourself a nice shake. Have it for breakfast, lunch, and then a sensible dinner and your on your way to losing weight and feeling great--just ask Tommy Lasorda.
Ported loooong ago (Score:3, Informative)
Plagues of cell phones (Score:2, Funny)
then roaming charges and digital loss
now getting fragged by a cyberdemon on the I5
I wonder in punching in `idbeholdf' will drop long distance charges?
Cool but old (Score:1)
Cheating (Score:1)
Communicator Doom! (Score:3, Informative)
Unfortunately I had an earlier 9110 model of Communicator, but it had a cool emulator for old Infocom text adventure games as well as Space Invaders.
i wonder... (Score:1)
It's all a big plan to kill stupid people (Score:1, Troll)
The purpose of the phone is... (Score:1)
For gaming I think a PC is a better choice. It has a proper screen, pointing device and sound. Why should I want to play games on my phone? Of the same reason that I should want my pencil to make coffee!
Devices do have a purpose, or so I thought. Oh silly me. I'm just SOOOO boring and old fashioned.
Re:The purpose of the phone is... (Score:1)
Hardcore gamers will want it all (Score:3, Funny)
Pulls his Nokia 7650 out of his pocket.
Pulls out mono headphones and jacks them into the phone.
Pulls out a bluetooth optical mouse.
Opens trenchcoat and pulls out a bluetooth keyboard.
Takes off his sunglasses
Proceeds to play a single player 1993 vintage 2.5D first person shooter on a 2 inch screen.
Hmmm, I don't think it looks cool and it sure doesn't sound like fun.
"Can you hear me now?" (Score:3, Funny)
Cell phones will destroy civilization. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cell phones will destroy civilization. (Score:2)
Remember the first PC version? The current state of civilization for mobile phones [freeweb.hu] brings back all the right memories...
In other news... (Score:1)
http://www.aeflux.com/enquirer/article/061600/i
Perfect phone for Doom? (Score:4, Informative)
I'm not really impressed by any phone these days (wasn't we supposed to replace them all with 3G any day now?) but once in a while Nokia strikes the jackpot. Check out the 6800 phone with revolutionary keyboard-thingie [infosync.no]. If it does run with the Symbian OS, I think it really could bring your PDA needs to your pocket.
Re:Perfect phone for Doom? (Score:1)
The 6800 doesn't run on Symbian. The one you linked first (the N-Gage) does however.
Human Factors (Score:2, Interesting)
First of all, even laptops batteries don't last more than a couple of hours. And I'm sure if a Doom fanatic sits playing it on cell (don't bother whether he can distinguish guns) he wouldn't get away from it atleast for next couple of hours. Well the battery dies and guess what, he would be actually waiting for a call from an interviewer or whether his wife is in labor yet.
The next step would be obviously to stream movies... Well I've seen some models which can handle videos. Seriously, I cannot watch a movie on my 17'' monitor without complaining, how desperate can people can get to watch and play on the go. So far, wireless hasn't caught up like in Japan just becoz most people feel that this is quite unimportant.
I'd say better make those networks and services better so that atleast people can hear "old movies" and not "monkey with cold". Games and movies on cell phones might sound good but practically I find them waste of time and resources.
Re:Human Factors (Score:1)
Well, yes. Of course a laptop is better for gaming, but that's not the point. At least here in snowy old Finland, you always have your phone with you, but carrying a laptop is more of a chore. In a typical scenario, you go to the bank and there's a 30-person line in front of you. Instead of grumbling and getting bored silly, you take out your phone and play some games while you wait. They don't need to be equivalent to laptop / PC games, the use case scenario is totally different.
The same argument could go for laptops vs. desktops... of course desktops are much better game platforms, but when you're on the road you have a laptop and not the decktop along with you :).
$10.00 for an upgrade??? (Score:1, Insightful)
He has to release the source code, so...
Yuioup
How powerful mobile phones? (Score:3, Interesting)
Now, Nokias run the same game at adequate speed. Shouldn't I conclude the graphics and cpu capabilites equal those of my old desktop?
Re:How powerful mobile phones? (Score:2)
Re:How powerful mobile phones? (Score:2)
WildPalm's next project... (Score:2)
(sorry for the double posting... forgot to turn on cookies)
Nokia Doom - The Catches (Score:4, Informative)
Well, it's not too bad - certainly playable, although I couldn't get the sound to work. The catch is that it requires so much damn memory to run that you have to shut down *every* application on the phone, and free up as much memory as possible. So while it's installed, you can't even add addresses.
Not worth it for me, but it's a nice gimmick. Shows what these devices are capable of if they had at least a little bit more memory in - 4MB isn't enough, are you listening Nokia? ;)
Nokia 9290 (Score:2)
Convergence (Score:2)
Small, handheld game systems already exist. Downsize a GBA by 10%, and put the phone bits inside one of those, instead of trying to futz a screen into a current phone.
A Nokia/GameBoy would bring a whole lot of advantages. Current userbase, a lot of existing games, better graphics.
Cell-plan problems? (Score:2)
While I'm not about to upgrade to a new phone just to play doom... I might keep it in mind when the next time to upgrade comes (as long as the phone is also a good phone).
Some problems (forgive my pessimism)
Once cellular-multiplayer versions of popular games comes out, I think that the cell phone companies are going to have some problems with plans like "Unlimited Evenings and Weekends". Airwaves in certain areas could very well start to get congested (as it is, I often cannot call out if I'm in a big city near a special event such as the yearly fireworks show, too many people on the phone).
The local phone company actually snipped their "unlimited long-distance" plan to X-hundred minutes because of a problem in small cities. Residents would wait until weekends or after 7 to dial the nearest big city where there were "free internet" providers, and hog the lines until early morning hours doing downloads. I can forsee the same issues with cells and games, etc, and you get a whole bunch of people constantly online playing doom or Tetris.
That day might be a ways away, but it is still a good possibility.
why port? (Score:2)
Non Nokia phones ? (Score:2)
I want to play too
USA Support (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Repeat? (Score:1)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Repeat? (Score:1)
Re:Why the GPL? (Score:1, Insightful)
ID still hold copyright on all artistic materials, (images, sounds, maps), only the game engine itself has been released under GPL.
If you want to distribute Doom the game you still need an royalty agreement with ID Software.
Seems to me they did the smart thing. They are focusing on what they are good at (Making PC FPS graphics engines), rather than segmenting into multiple smaller markets.
Other people do the work of porting, marketing and distributing, and ID still gets paid. What was the down side of this exactly?
Re:Why the GPL? (Score:4, Insightful)
So what? I don't ever remember reading John Carmack saying "We're releasing the Doom source because we don't think we can squeeze another drop from this cash-cow's tits" -- It was released because they were more-or-less done with it and wanted to share. Fast-forward to today with tons of loyal fans (both users and developers) and the cash to back it up, and I'm not sure it's wise to doubt whether or not the move was "smart".
Of course if Id wants to say "Hey, we see a potential market for DoomIII on biotech implant PDAs in about fifteen years, so we have no plans on releasing the source," that's fine too.
Or, you could just be trolling and I've wasted my breath.
Re:Why the GPL? (Score:1)
Re:Why the GPL? (Score:2)
As it is, now people are playing Doom again, and talking about Id, so it really is like free advertisement. I'd say it's actually helping them more than if they'd kept it locked up all these long years.
Re:Thats great, lets get Linux on my Nokia (Score:1)
Which is pretty mean when you think about it.