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I still remember playing some of those games on my phone with the Symbian OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian Hones
by KronisLV 5y ago
I still remember playing some of those games on my phone with the Symbian OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian
Honestly, it was nice while it lasted and it was interesting to see developers do a lot with so little screen real estate, memory and other hardware limitations, like an evolution of the consoles of the older days, before phones became essentially scaled down fully featured computers.
It is especially interesting because most modern JDK releases are known to be pretty memory hungry, in contrast to what the developers had to pull off back then. If Java had a stronger focus on embedded and low resource environments, who knows, maybe it'd be as usable as MicroPython nowadays.
It appears that there are actually a few apps available that can supposedly load these games, though i haven't personally checked them out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftware.j2meloader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftwar...
That said, i do have fond memories of Doom RPG back in the day, as well as the likes of Galaxy on Fire, as well as the old classic Gravity Defied. What a nice decade that was!