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From: Leif Bloomquist on 12 Mar 2010 13:49 "rich12345" <aiiadict(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:da1d4170-e272-49e3-a85f-20b1d5c4c521(a)c37g2000prb.googlegroups.com... >use a proxy server.... >a computer (modern PC) on the net accepts commands from the browser... This is how HyperLink does it. Pretty neat IMHO. http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/
From: Rudolf Harras on 13 Mar 2010 05:17 BruceMcF schrieb: >> I would like to see the normal C64 OS on a cellphone, that would be >> great. :) Then I could do some software for phones again. And with all >> the useful games which are far better than these Java games! > >Perhaps you mean C64 OS *and* emulated hardware? Don't know how it can be realized but since I like the C64 font etc. it would be really nice to have a phone where you have a C64 start screen when you switch it on and simple menus. Shouldn't be too difficult to use. :) And it should be Fast! But ony the other hand how many people would use this? So maybe its a better idea to create a C64 skin for existing phones. I didn't find any for Symbian S60 now. :(
From: BruceMcF on 13 Mar 2010 14:58 On Mar 13, 5:17 am, Rudolf Harras <rudi...(a)temporaryforwarding.com> wrote: > BruceMcF schrieb: > > >> I would like to see the normal C64 OS on a cellphone, that would be > >> great. :) Then I could do some software for phones again. And with all > >> the useful games which are far better than these Java games! > >Perhaps you mean C64 OS *and* emulated hardware? > Don't know how it can be realized but since I like the C64 font etc. it > would be really nice to have a phone where you have a C64 start screen > when you switch it on and simple menus. Shouldn't be too difficult to > use. :) And it should be Fast! Either Javascript or Android I'd guess (but *just* guessing) ... a "TUI" text menu would make it faster than the GUI. If it was text-mode only, and what sounded like SID was actually small mp3 clips, it would be reasonably straightforward to have an app that could interpret 6502 machine language code and run a virtual "sub64". It'd mostly be taking existing C64 emulator code and stripping things out, and only a little bit of adding new things in. > But ony the other hand how many people would use this? Small market niche but a unique one. And for small markets, cell phone apps bring in a little bit of money per user, while there's roughly a gross of $0 for C64 software unless its bundled with some new bit of hardware to allow it to work. > So maybe its a > better idea to create a C64 skin for existing phones. I didn't find any > for Symbian S60 now. :(
From: Anssi Saari on 15 Mar 2010 12:47 Rudolf Harras <rudi007(a)temporaryforwarding.com> writes: > But ony the other hand how many people would use this? So maybe its a > better idea to create a C64 skin for existing phones. I didn't find any > for Symbian S60 now. :( A skin would be nice. Well, a SID player would be nice too... BTW, fonts can be changed on the Symbian phones, they use common ttf fonts. Don't know if there's a decent ttf of the C64 font, though. Might need to add "a few" symbols to the original... And anyway, changing fonts on Symbian isn't for the faint of heart.
From: BruceMcF on 15 Mar 2010 13:09
On Mar 15, 12:47 pm, Anssi Saari <a...(a)sci.fi> wrote: > Rudolf Harras <rudi...(a)temporaryforwarding.com> writes: > > But ony the other hand how many people would use this? So maybe its a > > better idea to create a C64 skin for existing phones. I didn't find any > > for Symbian S60 now. :( > > A skin would be nice. Well, a SID player would be nice too... > > BTW, fonts can be changed on the Symbian phones, they use common ttf > fonts. Don't know if there's a decent ttf of the C64 font, though. > Might need to add "a few" symbols to the original... > > And anyway, changing fonts on Symbian isn't for the faint of heart. http://kofler.dot.at/c64 has: http://kofler.dot.at/c64/download/cbmttf.zip http://kofler.dot.at/c64/download/cbmfonts.zip .... credits "Jan". Never used it, but. |