Nokia N900 Review: Games

Games
Rating: 3 out of 10.  Wow these games are old... Is that a dos game in your pocket?


I am curious what it means to do open source development.  From what I can see, it means you will steal and reverse engineer whatever is popular on Windows or Apple from 5 to 10 years ago.  I'm not quite sure why people don't have ethical problems with stealing and reverse engineering games that companies spent millions of dollars developing.  I guess software developers don't need a salary.

• You can run Maelstrom.  Released in 1993 on the Mac.
  
• You can run Doom.  Released in 1993 on Windows.
• You can run Warcraft 2.  Released in 1995 on Windows.  But you have to know lots of little Linux commands.  If you don't know what 'su' or 'df' is, you are probably not going to get this working.
  
• You can run a game I never heard of called Ur-Quan.  Apparently its the hottest thing on linux, released in 1992 on DOS (yeah, that's right, DOS).
  
• There are 'clones' (reversed engineered) of various games that you could run from the early 1990's.
  
• If you steal all the roms from online web-sharing sites, you can run your father's favorite Nintendo, Game Boy, and Coleco Vision games on the N900.
  

Unfortunately, you can't play any of these games.  I tried Maelstrom.  The keyboard is way to cramped to actually play the game.  It was near impossible to thrust, rotation, and shoot at the same time, which makes the game frustating and basically unplayable.  Same with Doom, and same with a few Nintendo games that I *shame* downloaded from the net.