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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 13:52:24 +0200
From: Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <news2003-4@ceejay.cjb.REMOVE_TO_REPLYnet>
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Joaquim G�ndara wrote:

> So I'm making mobile phone games now.
> They only have 256 colours, there can
> only be 255 map tiles, which can only  ,,,
> be 8x8 pixels in size...    `OO        ..'
>                             <||.      .||.
>               ______________ bb ______ || _______________
> 
> 
> 
> ...the phones are slow, so the    That sucks!
> frame rate is low, and the only       `,,,
> sounds are beeps and MIDI!  `OO        ..'
>                             -||-      .||.
>                        _____ bb ______ || ____
> 
> 
> 
>                          What?      Why not make games for Xbox
>                             `         `,,,   or Playstation?
>                              OO        ..'
>                              ||       .||.
>                  ___________ bb ______ || ________
> 
> 
> 
>         Whoops. Can't talk to you,
>            ,  you're an idiot.         ,,,
>          OO                            oo'
>           ))                           ||
> jg       d d                           ||
> 
> 


Shouldn't Fanboy be the fan of everything ?
So when Nerdboy tells him about it , he would think it was awesome .. though 
he might not know why.

So I'm making mobile phone games now.
They only have 256 colours, there can
only be 255 map tiles, which can only  ,,,
be 8x8 pixels in size...    `OO        ..'
                             <||.      .||.
               ______________ bb ______ || _______________



...the phones are slow, so the      Awesome!
frame rate is low, and the only       `,,,
sounds are beeps and MIDI!  `OO        ..'
                             -||-      .||.
                        _____ bb ______ || ____



                                     .. err I think .. Tell me again
                                       `,,,   WHY is it so cool ?
                              OO        ..'
                              ||       .||.
                  ___________ bb ______ || ________



         Whoops. Can't talk to you,
            ,  you're an idiot.         ,,,
          OO                            oo'
           ))                           ||
jg       d d                           ||


 > I actually am making a mobile phone game. It uses the Mophun
 > API (www.mophun.com), and all the weird restrictions makes
 > it kinda fun to work with.

MIDI music range from terrible to awesome .. it all depends on skill of the 
artist and the quality of the MIDI hardware/software that recreates the sound.

You can simulate more colors on phone with slow LCD's by alternating two 
colours on the same pixel .. since the liquid crystals take time to change to 
their new position a new intermediate color will be visible in the time 
between the updates.
You can use this trick the effectively double the amount of colors you can 
display .. and then of course there is always clever dithering you could use 
as well.

I wonder when someone will create a phonevirus that spreads across the globe 
because no one ever thought that someone would do that and thus didn't protect 
themselves.

- Christian :)