Playing on a tablet?

[skoormit]

I would certainly pay towards being able to play CDDA on a tablet (not that I own a tablet yet, but I was considering buying one anyway).

I would buy a tablet if I could play CDDA on it (via my Dropbox copy).

[Arek_PL]

if your tablet have internet connection you can launch teamviewer 10 (free for non comercial use) on your pc and tablet
with tablet you connect to pc and play cata dda on your pc with tablet

[ianpwilliams]

Yeah I was looking at programs for controlling my PC via the internet using a tablet, because surely that would allow you to play CCDA. In fact there’s an app that apparently allows you to play proper commercial games, so surely a Roguelike would be doable.

But does it support a virtual keyboard on the tablet?

And if it’s a constant internet connection, how much data would the tablet get through? Chances are I would have to use 3G rather than WiFi, which might be alright in short bursts, but could be expensive over long periods.

[stk2008]

yeah agreed

the only real way to go with this is a proper build for android

[ianpwilliams]

Well I for one would be more than happy to contribute to a crowd funding campaign to pay for the hours required to create an Android tablet version. And I bet others would too.

[ianpwilliams]

Does anyone know if the game would run on a Pocket PC? The Pocket PC seems to run using a portable version of Windows so I’m not sure.

[Hazerithious]

Does anyone know if the game would run on a Pocket PC? The Pocket PC seems to run using a portable version of Windows so I'm not sure.

The best way to find out is to give it a shot.

[ianpwilliams]

Maybe, although I wouldn’t want to buy one only to discover it didn’t work. I need to find out what the differences are between desktop Windows and mobile Windows.

[Hazerithious]

Oh I had the assumption that you already had one. I see now that I was sorely mistaken. Sorry about that.

[ianpwilliams]

No problem, I just need to do some research into them

[ianpwilliams]

Would the game run on Windows Mobile? And if so, would it need to be compiled for that platform or would it theoretically work as is? Maybe on something like this:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=252173780127&alt=web

[kevin.granade]

I would be absolutely shocked if you could get it to compile for windows mobile.

[ianpwilliams]

Fair enough I know nothing about this stuff

[ianpwilliams]

So it looks like there are two unofficial options for playing CDDA on a tablet - remotely via the internet, and natively using various methods.

For playing remotely Teamviewer 10 has been mentioned. Does this work over an internet connection or just over a local network? And if not, do any others support remote access over internet? And do any of the remote access programs come with a virtual keyboard on the tablet?

The other option is playing natively, which would clearly be more complicated but would be the better option. I’ve heard Linux tarballs, project files for executables, Ubuntu, and mint, none of which I’ve heard of. So for those who’ve done it, how much work is involved, and how would I go about learning how to do it myself? I was a computer programmer many years ago so I have some IT knowledge, although I’ve never worked with Android systems before.

Sorry to keep banging on about this but I just can’t find any games on Android or iOS which satisfy my apocalypse itch, and I think CDDA would be perfect for dipping in and out of throughout the day on a tablet, rather than slowly booting up a very old laptop in order to play it.

[stk2008]

I agree this needs to be built for android pretty please

I would love the full desktop CDDA on android Drools

[BigD145]

TeamViewer itself requires an internet connection and you will see a multisecond delay even in the same room. The biggest hitch is that you are sending video between devices, not terminal. You’ll always have some delay since your connection goes out and then over to a different device. You could easily have an 8 second minimum delay from 1500 miles away.

Even on Windows, on screen tablet keyboards suck, so I feel your pain.

[Chezzo]

I got both the op in this forum post to work without root:

http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=1786.0

And the one in this message in that forum post to work with root, right in a terminal on my phone:

http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=1786.msg115373#msg115373

I am pretty sure you could swap out that ancient 0.B version with this one. Arms are arms, right?

http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11114.msg246564#msg246564

That said, it is curses and you will at least need the hacker’s keyboard (in the Play store) if not a physical keyboard.

Or, you could ssh into rougenex.us or rogues hell.com

[Miloch]

I have not noticed a multi second delay on team viewer. I use it to remote into other computers in my home and to use tablets and phones to access it. It would be better to say that it depends on the quality of your network and internet connection.

[jcd]

For remote curses mode you shouldn’t need teamviewer.
Just ssh into a linux box with cata and play on the terminal.
Without usb keyboard its bound to be hard though.

[Sean_Mirrsen]

I’m playing on a tablet, technically. It’s a Windows 8 tablet (not RT), and it has a neat attachable folding keyboard dock that makes it work like a regular netbook, but I can attest that it works relatively well via the standard Win8 onscreen keyboard (desktop version, Metro version has an inverted numpad). Movement can be handled via tapping the screen, everything else is easily navigated via onscreen controls.

I’m not sure what it’d take to make it work on Android (I imagine most Android keyboards are ill-suited for the task since they lack numpads), but I just wanted to say that, as a concept, CDDA on a tablet definitely works. Maybe if we used existing pointer support to create a sort of a command interface provided by the game itself, it could be even better.