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Archive of posts filed under the Symbian category.

S60 5th editition doesn’t have Multi-touch, you must wait untill Symbian^3

I fixed the touch keys on the recent AntSnes 0.71 release. I though that I could support multi-touch in my application. I mean that there’s nothing preventing it to happen :) It should just work. Well, the thing is that there’s no multi-touch in S60 5.0! So there’s also no multi-touch on Samsung i8910. Therefore [...]

AntSnes 0.7: Support for S60 5th edition

The 5th edition version is finally ready. I had N97 to test it with, and it runs really well with it :) The keypad works really well! Unfortunately I didn’t have a Samsung’s I8910 to test the capacitive touch so I really can’t tell if it works, so feedback is welcome. The project has now [...]

Porting The AntSnes to the S60 5th edition

I have been porting the AntSnes to the 5th edition. The reason I have been a bit lazy is that I can’t get the TRK debugger working with N97. So I have been working only with filelogger. That sucks! Here’s some video of the current state of the AntSnes to the 5th edition. I’m running [...]

Why Symbian is so slow compared to Linux

Symbian phones are really slow compared to Linux based devices like gp2x etc. You really don’t get even near to the same performance (in frames per second) with Symbian phone compared to an open Linux device with similar ARM processor. Here’s couple of reason’s affecting my emulator ports. 1. No direct access to the frame [...]

gpSP4Symbian: S60 3rd edition preview

This is just an initial release to gain some feedback how the port is currently working. I would like to know if you get any games running at correct speed. The first number in the fps-counter is telling how fast the emulator is running( it should be 60). If you do get something running at [...]