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converting a palm game to nokia 9210

4 replies · 2,650 views · Started 30 April 2004

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][FONT=Georgia]:? Can anyone help me with converting the game solefree found on www.smallware.com to a game playable on the Nokia 9210? Or does anybody know where to find Bakers Game for this Nokia?[/FONT][/FONT]

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I never heard that someone managed to port palm games to 9210. Try search under symbian games forum. It might help. 😉

carla wrote:[FONT=Comic Sans MS][FONT=Georgia]:? Can anyone help me with converting the game solefree found on www.smallware.com to a game playable on the Nokia 9210? Or does anybody know where to find Bakers Game for this Nokia?[/FONT][/FONT]

i think its illegal to conver ANYTHING from one to another!
i have managed to make ORIGINAL CD of tomtom citymaps
( i have bought it ) from 9210 to series 60, palm and they told me that is illegal!

if any moderator knows about if is illegal or not i will appreciate it
thanks

Conversions are not automatically illegal, jojo. And making a program developed for one system run another, different one, is usually called porting (not converting).

To do that, you need the original programming lanaguage source code and permission/license from the author (or whomever owns the copyright to the original).

Another way to run software intended for one system on another is by a separate software layer that is called an emulator which makes the other system behave like the first one, and allows software for it run on the system where the emulator runs.

There are e.g., Commodore 64, Nintendo GameBoy, etc., emulators available for Symbian mobile phones.

So all we need is Palm emulator for the Communicator 😊
There's already a whole thread about this in this forum. If I remember correctly it can't be done easily (would be very slow since the Palm has a faster processor).

The only option you have now is start looking for similar software or ask the developers of the game you like to see on the Communicator to port it.