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MaelstromUK

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iDF
« on: August 29, 2010, 06:54:33 am »

Dwarf Fortress on the iPod Touch. Runs at about 1FPS though, and needs a bluetooth keyboard connected...
(Sorry about the dodgy photography!)

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Josephus

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Re: iDF
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 06:55:56 am »

Haha, that's awesome. Is it actually playable at 1FPS?
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Re: iDF
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 06:56:41 am »

Not particularly! Not yet at least.
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Re: iDF
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 08:38:28 am »

I'm sure you could get it to work on the iPad reasonably well.

Or you can get one of those Korean micro-computers I hear about occasionally.
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Re: iDF
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2010, 09:05:15 am »

How did you manage? Can you run Mac apps off of the iPhone? I've tried playing it through telnet and the terminal, but it wasn't very fun.
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lordnincompoop

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Re: iDF
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2010, 09:11:39 am »

Probs would run slightly better on the iPhone 4, what with it having better hardware and all that.

But very well done nonetheless.
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Re: iDF
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2010, 09:16:57 am »

Looks too good to be true, though, I've never been much of a believer.
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lordnincompoop

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Re: iDF
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2010, 09:19:45 am »

Yeah, there's that.

I call BS; Maelstrom has posted only twice so far, both of them being in this thread. Not to mention his unwillingness to describe how he did it.
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Re: iDF
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2010, 09:22:31 am »

I've poked around with development for various handhelds and I'm going to stick my neck out and call "BS" on this one.

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Re: iDF
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2010, 09:29:41 am »

You can do this with DF term, but it isn't pretty :)  The display doesnt have enough row/col to really get at it.
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Re: iDF
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2010, 09:40:53 am »

If this is real then i'd be interested to know how adventure mode performs.
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Re: iDF
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2010, 09:56:50 am »

You should call it iDorf, or possibly iTroll...
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Re: iDF
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2010, 10:03:58 am »

If this is real then i'd be interested to know how adventure mode performs.
DFTerm is real, and it comes pretty close. You run it on another computer instead, and the handheld functions as an input/output device.

IIRC it doesn't have support for iOS and other phones yet.
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Re: iDF
« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2010, 10:13:31 am »

Well, there is no way in hell it will run on the iphone directly.... though there is nothing stopping you from you using something like remote desktop to play dwarf fortress that is actually running on another computer.

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Re: iDF
« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2010, 10:21:57 am »

Well, there is no way in hell it will run on the iphone directly.... though there is nothing stopping you from you using something like remote desktop to play dwarf fortress that is actually running on another computer.
AKA DFTerm.
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