phone resolution is only 240x320. do it again at 1600x1200 (what my 19in trinitron from that era runs at), or even just 1024x768.
Who actually ran HL1 at 1600x1200 or 1024x768 in 1998 unless they had a high-end PC? The minimum requirements basically expect 320x240.
As an aside, I’m really, really tired of people quoting the larger number after the smaller number for landscape resolutions. X goes BEFORE Y, damn it! I know this is the publication’s fault, because they did the same thing in a different article.
To be fair, not far from your average crt monitor in 1998, maybe 640 x 480.
I had Quake 3 Arena running on my N95, when the phone was still relevant, someone ported all 3 Quakes to it and they ran really well. I know people are glazing it in this thread but it was such a great example of why Nokia died.
It had a proper PowerVR GPU, same one as the iPhone. Should have been great… except the OS didn’t even use it. Most games neglected to as well. When they did use it, like with NGage or OVI titles they worked great, but the OS and apps felt as dated and laggy as ever thanks to S60.
Had great Bluetooth support, full A2DP when iPhones couldn’t even change volume over Bluetooth. But Bluetooth headphones had limited battery life, usually only 1-2 hours in that era. What happens when they die? Auto-pause? No, IMMEDIATELY play your music over the loudest speaker in the world in the middle of the subway.
Why put in such advanced hardware and not take advantage of it properly? Because the OS & Hardware teams didn’t talk to each other. Apparently hardware would dictate features, OS would code to support them and nobody was looking at the big picture.
I got a blackberry pearl and explained to my kids that it had better specs than my first PC in every category except screen size.
And if you’d had a Osborne, not even that.
i wouldn’t say it matchs pcs as other have pointed out, still impressive and i say we should use half-life as the next step in putting games on small devices we shouldn’t be able to. as a step up if we already have doom on it.
