The Java developed for wireless, Java Platform Micro Edition J2ME, is not the all-singing, all-dancing everyman promised in the original hype. Games are the most typical application of this type. Packet based GPRS services are poised to deliver...
As a result many thought of it as 'the poor man's BBC' but in terms of design it outstripped its big brother - its smart and compact unit could not have been any smaller and still have kept its full size keyboard.
Technologies that Time Forgot: The BBC Micro
http://www.silicon.com/a50798 Of course games have come a long way since then, with the birth of consoles from Nintendo, Sega, Sony and now even Microsoft, not to mention all the titles for programmable...
Aside from the fact that the N-Gage is undoubtedly a powerful games machine, the main reasons given by each of the publishers for being keen to support it were that they very much believe in the idea of portable multiplayer gaming, and that the...
Nokia on Tuesday extended its bet on mobile video games, agreeing to acquire multiplayer technology from Sega for its upcoming N-Gage game deck. Ilkka Raiskinen, senior vice president of Nokia's entertainment and media business unit, said in a...
For my teenage mates and me the Spectrum and the C64 demanded equal playground respect. The Commodore 64 deserved more respect. Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Acorn Electron and the Vic-20.