Netbooks and winSPMBT?
 

Anyone tried one of those eeepc /mini note/aspire one etc ultra mobile notebooks to check if this game works on them?

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I plan to get one, though just about every time I have made up my mind then somebody seems to have announced a new model, have lost track of the eee pc variants already <G!>. I have seen an Acer Aspire one in a nice shade of blue at the local PC world, and loved it, but it was an early model in Linux, so no use to me. I'm likely to plump for the Aspire one or the MSI Wind (PC World's re-badged "Advent 4211" one is 50 quid cheaper) in XP.

There should be no problems running the game on any XP netbook, in CD version set to 1280 windowed mode and you should be able to run it wide screen - though most of these things are a weird 1280 by 600. Installing it - I would install and fully patch up to a desktop machine,and then copy the folder over on the wireless network, or with a USB stick. You probably would want something bigger than the original "baby" eee pcs, as these only had a couple of gigs of SSD?.

As with any laptop - if you want to play games, pack a mini mouse as well, it is miles better than trying to use a trackpoint (like my IBM had - never again!:)) or trackpad, those are really only useful for net browsing or word processing, not precision work.

1 kilogram weight and 3 or maybe 4 hours battery life is the main selling point to me, after the old IBM laptop which was 3kg and did about an hour on battery if lucky so you had to lug the power brick as well.

Cheers
Andy

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I might get an Acer Aspire One A150X. It comes with 1.6Ghz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB Ram, 120GB of HDD and an 8.9" monitor at 1024x600 (wtf?) and Windows XP. As a backup machine for my soon to be mine notebook. I will probably just have it when I have to go somewhere or in bed to watch a movie or play winSPMBT.
I like this Acer due to the specs and small screen, though not crazy about the resolution. I don't like the idea of a 10" one, too big IMO.

So I guess it will have to be played at 800x600 windowed mode.

I didn't know I could just copy the folder there, I was planning on copying the installation files from the CD with one of the methods mentioned and install it, but your way sounds better :)

winSPMBT, going where few games go. :)

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I got a MSI Wind Clone, 10" monitor 1024x600 resolution. The game works fine. Even on battery there is no slow down or anything.
In fact I tried a few other games, no proper testing, just some quick in and out play and audiosurf, civilization 3, sid meiers pirates! (the newest one from steam), worked fine.
:)
There is something about playing winSPMBT while lying down on your bed in a small screen, wonderful :)

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Suggestion to anyone considering using a netbook and this game, GET A MOUSE! No matter how good the touchpad is, it can lead to some stupid/funny mistakes, plus it is a....dog to scout properly.
Other than that, I believe the netbooks were created just to play winSPMBT. It plays and looks wonderful on it.

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AHA! Caught you lying down on the job! :D

Col Tsao out

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I just thought of how potentially awesome it would be to play Steel Panthers on a Tablet PC, like a digital board game heh. I suspect a stylus for movement could easily be really useful or really restrictive (though one might easily get used to using the mini-map to select areas of the map instead of scrolling along the edges.

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I am sure that a stylus would be far better than a touchpad...
The touchpad wouldn't be as bad if I would have an option to disable double tapping to count as a click, but the drivers suck at that.
With a mouse it is very easy of course.
So far I like my netbook :)

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The stylus would be fine if not great for all the other commands besides scrolling. The scrolling is what I'd be worried about...that and I don't have enough money to burn on a tablet PC just because it might be cool to play SP on it hehe.

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Hi, I'm pleased to report that the Asus EEE 901XP plays WinSP in
1024 x 786 (768)? windowed mode. If you hitch up an external monitor, note that the directions in the Asus manual do NOT work,
i.e. use F5 to toggle between modes. You have to right-click on the
desktop and from the resulting short-cut menu: graphics options -->
output to --> monitor. This only plays windowed as well.

Regards, Warwick

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Finally got the Advent 4211 (MSI wind clone from Dixons Group - Dixons, Currys, PC world etc).

The 4211 seems to be exactly the same as the MSI wind, but about 40 quid cheaper. No slip case provided with it (I think the wind has one in the box), no other differences I can spot.

Battery is the 3 cell one, and gives 2 hours ( a little more if you set the power saving mode on) - but 6 cell ones should be coming around Xmas time. 2 hours is better than the old IBM Thinkpad I used to have anyway, and the 1 kg weight is miles better!.

I dropped a copy of the game over on the wireless network, set it to windowed 1024 mode and it plays just fine on the 1024 by 600 screen.

I'll need a mini travelling mouse to play the game properly - the trackpad is no use for precision work, but that is the case for anything other than web browsing or word processing anyhow. I like it far more than the stiff-stick the old thinkpad had buried in the middle of the keyboard.

Cheers
Andy

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Forgot to mention: time on full battery charge is 5-6 hours. This is okay as I find I start making mistakes after about 5 hours anyway :D .Only downside so far on the the 901 is that you are not
exactly over endowed with disk space, about 16g total.

Regards, Warwick

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It works good on my Acer Aspire One A110L (windowed 640x480, under WINE 1.1.5).
The Operative System is linux (a modified LINPUS distribution).

bye
cd

Re: Netbooks and winSPMBT?
 

Got an MSI Wind, 10.1 inch screen, with the 160GB HD.

Hooked up my external DVD player and installed and patched to 4.5. Found that I can play 640x480 and 800x600 in full screen, everything else must be in window mode to play. The view in full screen is a bit stretched but not too bad. I haven't tried hooking it up to a monitor yet.

Veddy kool!

Cheers,
Wes