Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded

Subject: M.A.X.R. in your pocket - with Pandora

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Want to have M.A.X.R. in your pocket?
Soon you can!

Well, to be honest I've never played M.A.X.R. - YET - and I only played the demo of the original M.A.X. many years ago. But as I thought about cool old games it was there on my top list. It seams it impressed me... And then I found this site. Wow!

OK, no more delay.
Soon there will be an open source handheld running Linux with (I think) enough power for M.A.X.R. and hopefully also the original M.A.X (via DosBox).
See http://www.openpandora.org for more info.
Can be used for Internet/LAN, Hotseat and also E-Mail sessions...

I think this could give this project an additional push and greater audience.

I'm a little bit perplex that there is not already a post about this. Is this new to all of you? Can't imagine...
(I've registered just for this topic )

Subject: Re: M.A.X.R. in your pocket - with Pandora

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Welcome on the board

I think MAX/MAXR without a mouse and with such a small display is nearly impossible to play

And I am afraid, that pandora has not enough RAM/CPU power to run MAXR.

Subject: Re: M.A.X.R. in your pocket - with Pandora

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yes, maxr is a mem hungry monster at the moment

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Subject: Re: M.A.X.R. in your pocket - with Pandora

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OK, it has only 800x480 but you can zoom, right?
The mouse could be controlled by the touch display or by an analog control. You can also connect a real mouse (USB or Bluetooth) if you like.

It has 256 MB RAM and a ARM CPU with 600Mhz ( != 600Mhz x86, don't know how much slower/faster). Not enough?
May be in future it is.

They are porting/optimizing Quake3 and it runs on the Pandora.

So einfach gebe ich nicht auf!

Subject: Re: M.A.X.R. in your pocket - with Pandora

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The original MAX ran *reasonably* well at least in early game on a 486 DX 100 with 64MB RAM under MS-DOS 6.2. I know that for a fact because endless night sessions with my school mates were played on such a "high end" machine.

MAXR though is still far away from performing like that. And to be frank I really don't see the point of playing MAX on a handheld at all. We're looking at a strategy game with very strong multiplayer focus (at least as far MAXR is concerned). Playing sessions routinely clock in at 3h+ - and who wants to stare on a handheld display for that amount of time. Also the control issue really *is* an issue because MAX games with simultaneous moves tend to get rather hectic and involve a lot of quick micromanagement and keyboard mashing.

And Quake get's ported on *anything*, really.

(Not to say anything bad about the openpandora project though. ;))