Hurray, we did it !!!

[silpol]

Hi all,

some of you have read (and some didn't) that we are doing first real open-sourced product here at Nokia - Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, with SW part mirrored for public at maemo.org.

The point why I am writing here - yesterday we made porting OpenTTD on our platform (I'm just happen to be here as one of TTD addicts, you know, they are everywhere). It was a breeze - just compiling!!!. Well, actually you can do it on your own on simulator from maemo.org, but we tried it on real tablet - IT WORKS!!! It is run on ARM architecture and keeps CPU busy for 60% . There are things to fix still before it becomes real SW for real HW box, but... It is not that long way, and here all credit goes to you, developers - THANK YOU!

Ah, yeah, I will add screenshots with real HW as soon as the guy with camera and SD card comes back to office

[LKRaider]

Sounds really cool


Nice toy you have made there
Too bad wireless connection is almost inexistent/and/or sucks over here

[silpol]

Sounds really cool
Nice toy you have made there
Too bad wireless connection is almost inexistent/and/or sucks over here

well, the Box has quit many options for connectivity - not only WiFi, but also Bluetooth (so you can attach GPRS modem in your phone) or USB modem or USB-to-Ethernet or... feel free to tweak and play

back to OpenTTD - I was able even to try multiplayer game: I found server from outside, tried to connect, got everything almost done and then ... bang, it lost synch still to check what I have to tweak there on network side, or... let see...

there is also challenge about right-mouse-click and right-mosue-drag, but ... we have motto here "The future is open" - mean I hope we could give it a try to hack.

That's it folks!

[Darkvater]

Sounds just great silpol!

There has already been a port of a previous version of OpenTTD to PocketPC, but unfortunately as I see it, it has been abandoned. I tried to port OpenTTD for that platform but as it didn't really want to work with the microsoft-supplied emulator and I don't have a pocketpc myself, I gave up.

However if OpenTTD is this easy to port and all you had to add were some defines and includes, we can add it to SVN and get official support for it. This of course would mean that someone with such a Nokia will have to regularly test it to make sure it still works.

[orudge]

Sounds good indeed, I'll look forward to seeing some pics.

[Aegir]

You guys rock.

Sure I dont quite like OTTD at this stage, but regardless. You rock.

I know I'll be trying to get my hands on a 770 when they arrive in Australia.

[Dextro]

Hi all,

some of you have read (and some didn't) that we are doing first real open-sourced product here at Nokia - Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, with SW part mirrored for public at maemo.org.

The point why I am writing here - yesterday we made porting OpenTTD on our platform (I'm just happen to be here as one of TTD addicts, you know, they are everywhere). It was a breeze - just compiling!!!. Well, actually you can do it on your own on simulator from maemo.org, but we tried it on real tablet - IT WORKS!!! It is run on ARM architecture and keeps CPU busy for 60% . There are things to fix still before it becomes real SW for real HW box, but... It is not that long way, and here all credit goes to you, developers - THANK YOU!

Ah, yeah, I will add screenshots with real HW as soon as the guy with camera and SD card comes back to office

OMFG GREAT!

Pity no one is able to port it to the n-gage but that would mean rewritting the whole gui

Still guess I'lll try to save up for a 770 when it arrives here in portugal

[Nappe1]

Nokia 770 isn't cell phone is it?

It is just Symbian based PDA with good connectivity hardware, right?


...just wanted to make this clear for myself.

[Dextro]

Nokia 770 isn't cell phone is it?

It is just Symbian based PDA with good connectivity hardware, right?


...just wanted to make this clear for myself.

Yup that's right

[StavrosG]

Nokia 770 isn't cell phone is it?

It is just Symbian based PDA with good connectivity hardware, right?


...just wanted to make this clear for myself.

Yup that's right

Well... WRONG!

Maemo platform is composed of mainstream Linux and open source software widely deployed in the most popular Linux distributions. At its core is Hildon Application framework, which is based on GNOME technology.

It is a Linux/Gnome based pda

[silpol]

Sounds just great silpol!

There has already been a port of a previous version of OpenTTD to PocketPC, but unfortunately as I see it, it has been abandoned. I tried to port OpenTTD for that platform but as it didn't really want to work with the microsoft-supplied emulator and I don't have a pocketpc myself, I gave up.

However if OpenTTD is this easy to port and all you had to add were some defines and includes, we can add it to SVN and get official support for it. This of course would mean that someone with such a Nokia will have to regularly test it to make sure it still works.

well, not that easy still issues like keybindings, how-to-get-right-mouse-events-on-touchpanel-with-stilus, SDL networking, etc

as for what to add - I will talk to one guy coming back from St.Petersburg: he already did some porting with SDL, and he has all HW/SW setup for that so I hope we will have it soon - in .deb source package if you don't mind

[silpol]

Nokia 770 isn't cell phone is it?

It is just Symbian based PDA with good connectivity hardware, right?


...just wanted to make this clear for myself.

no, it is NOT a phone - we actually had a joke that we must wear bandanas with motto "We are not a phone" slogan to answer questions from colleagues from Mobile Phones division

and it is not PDA - it is tablet: to browse net at home while your kids occupied all available PC, to went down to cafe at ground floor and read some news in quiet, to play some music from net stream, to hack'n'port some games there etc. it is broadband device for you

and no, NO Symbian there - it is Linux derived from Debian distro, with some additives and modifications for handheld platform.

before you asked - this is not a Zaurus from Sharp: not a PDA

[silpol]

Nokia 770 isn't cell phone is it?

It is just Symbian based PDA with good connectivity hardware, right?
...just wanted to make this clear for myself.

Yup that's right

nope, wrong, not a phone, not a PDA

[silpol]

Nokia 770 isn't cell phone is it?

It is just Symbian based PDA with good connectivity hardware, right?


...just wanted to make this clear for myself.

Yup that's right

Well... WRONG!

Maemo platform is composed of mainstream Linux and open source software widely deployed in the most popular Linux distributions. At its core is Hildon Application framework, which is based on GNOME technology.

It is a Linux/Gnome based pda

everything correct except acronym PDA - it is not a PDA, it is tablet... see other comments for more details

[DaleStan]

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There is NO excuse for making that many posts that close together.

[DeletedUser21]

the edit button gave me a time out?

thats an excuse.


but to get back to topic: I perfer a site without frames.
as for the site name: GO wordart!

[Mek]

the edit button gave me a time out?

thats an excuse.


but to get back to topic: I perfer a site without frames.
as for the site name: GO wordart!

that's not this topic though

[ThorRune]

Hahaha! Wrong topic, X

And the games name is OpenTTD, not Open Transport Tycoon Delux... If it was the latter, it'd be elegal. It's just so that everyone knows what TTD stands for, but it dosent say anywhere. Thats how i figure it anyways...

[Nanaki13]

OT: When i want to play OTTD with my friends i just im them and say 'tt?'

[yoshi314]

so..what other types of bizarre hardware did you manage to compile openttd for?

i think i'll build an OpenTTD livecd...yeahhh
if i start from LFS maybe it's stick under 25mb...who knows....that's also a neat idea. if some would figure out how to boot it off USB-Stick (no experience here, i'm just making a development-tool-packed-livecd for fun right now)....^_^