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DOOM Runs on Palm Pre with Hardware Acceleration

Categories: Developer, Gaming, Palm, webOS
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 3:56 PM

 

You might remember early signs of DOOM running on the Palm Pre back in the summer, but it wasn’t running optimally. Well, with webOS 1.3.5 brought with it some extra OpenGL ES functions, allowing for more robust 3D handling. That in and of itself is good news to developers who had been previously turned off to webOS gaming, let alone to gamers eager to frag some demons on Mars. The DOOM app itself is still in development (meaning you have to launch through Terminal), but it works with card view just fine. If you want to give this a shot for yourself, it’s available in Preware. [via PreCentral]

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  • jerry

    That’s both an achievement to the developers involved, as well as testimony to the WTF was Palm thinking when creating the Pre UI and keyboard.

    Basically, it shows how much more the “5-way D-Pads” of the Treos rock over the silly button of the Pre. What’s worse is that the way it seemed designed when I owned a Pre, the Pre button could have turned into a 4-way D-Pad by incorporating gestures near the button, but lacks any touchscreen sensitivity below the button, making a 5-way impossible.

    See Palm, Apple wasn’t right when they forced 1 button mice on their users, and they weren’t right with their iPhone UI other. There was a company that consistently got it right, too bad you had no confidence in what you had learned.