Blog of Robert Kan » Windows Mobile

Pocket UFO

Robert — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:42:31 +0000

In my secondary school time I spent a lot of time playing UFO X-Com game and it’s successor UFO Terror from the Deep. Even now I think it was one of the best games I’ve ever played – even if it is turn based. Developers mixed a lot of great ideas into this game and made it challenging but very addictive. And today accidentally I’ve found PocketPC version of this hit created by Russian company SMK Software (salutes). And it is free.

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Sidplay and XnView for PocketPC

Robert — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:59:59 +0000

Having some free time I’ve found 2 neat tools for my WM5 based Vario:

Sidplay for Windows CE / PocketPC – as the name says, this is the player of Commodore 64 music files, known as sids (.sid extension – SID was the chip responsible mainly for sound on Commodore 64). The quality is quite nice and it is great feeling to hear Last Ninja 3 or some cult scene musics once again :). Of course there is great SidPlayerW for Windows. To get .sids, just visit HVSC – biggest and greatest Sid collection ever.
XnView Pocket – very nice picture browser and converter for Windows Mobile. It is much more convenient to use than default file browser or TCPMP (which is great for movies anyway).

Windows Mobile 6.0 review

Robert — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:51:01 +0000

I just have read a review of upcoming Windows Mobile 6.0 codename Crossbow (by the way Crossbow is the nickname of guy who is considered to be all-the-time world’s best coder on Commodore 64 scene, a living legend). According to this review, WM 6.0 offers nothing so special comparing to WM 5.0 used in my Vario (a re-branded Qtek 9100). Nice look, some small additions, close Live! integration,built-in VoIP support and data encryption. Nice, but nothing outstanding (I miss the encryption in WM 5.0). Let’s wait for final release.