mini-seiv installation

[dogscoff]

*rummage* *rummage*

... ah, found it...

take a look at this thread - there might be some handy hints in there.

[Makinus]

thanks Dogscoff! i found very helpful direction in the thread that you pointed...

I converted all SEIV bitmaps to RLE compressed 256-colors bitmaps and achieved a huge reduction in size with very few graphical differences (you can notice some degradation in the planets in the starmap screen but it isn´t nothing crappy)...

Now i have my SEIV+Devnull installation in a 52MB installatiom, that i´m transferred to my 128MB pendrive so i can have it always with me wherever i go, without needing to install it in any computer...

thanks everyone for your help!

BTW: batch processing is a must if you wish to do the same that i did...

[JLS]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Hmmmm SEIV plays on lots of screens but the screens could be displayed one at a time. The shipbuilding screen is probably the busiest. I wonder if SEIV could be rewritten as PDA game. Or even a CellPhone game.

THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING IDEA!!!

[Makinus]

now the next step: transfer SEIV to a CellPhone!

I have a Nokia 9210i Communicator and i already found a way to create a "Virtual MSDOS" console (using a program called XTM), now i will try to emulate Linux in the CellPhone, then, using Winex (a windows emulator) i´ll try to run SEIV in my Cellphone...

I´m only waiting my Winex to arrive by mail, so i can try it... but i already foresee a problem, the Nokia 9210i screen is only 640x200 pixels so i don´t know if SEIV will run in smaller resolutions...

If i do it i will post all the instructions in how to do it here...

[geoschmo]

They are working on a Version of Linux for pocket PC's due later this year. Not sure if WINE will work on it though. If there is some way to make it work now that would be great.