Questions about Pocket PC 2002....

[NYIllustrator]

Ok so as some of you know, last week my ipaq crashed and would not restore, leaving me to restore everything manually. I am for tow things to do this however. The first being, waiting for my 5 gig PC Card to arrive this week, the second being wether or not I should get Pocket PC 2002. So my question is, should I get it? Before you answer, I specifically want to know if all my cool aps and games are compadible with it, cause I remember hearing somewhere that a lot of stuff was not compadible with PPC 2002 OS yet. Most importantly is Pocket Wolf and Pocket Quake compadible, but also programs like Pocket Painter, Photogenics, Pocket SCUMM, Pocket Sarien, Pocket GB, Pocket NES and Pocket SNES. Does anyone know if these work, or is the majority of software still not ready for PPC 2002? Thanks in advance!

[Michael Y]

I have an iPaq 3835 (running ppc2k2, obviously), and I can run all of those programs on it(except for PocketPainter, which I've never tried). They all run very well except Photogenics can be a bit slow at times. Also, PocketGB is sometimes slow when you try to exit. However, I've never tried these on other devices so it may just be an app thing, not the OS.[/url]

[NYIllustrator]

so ALL of tohse ran? really? wow. even pocket wolf?

[Michael Y]

[RICoder]

If I were you, I would wait if you can. You already have a decent PPC...so hang until the XScale comes out. It's only a few months out and will be SOOOO much better.

[NYIllustrator]

the xscale is an OS? I never understood what xscale is exactly.

[RICoder]

XScale is the processor.

You most likely have an ARM 206Mhz. The XScale is Intel's new chip. ARM Based, 400+Mhz.

So, imagine your PPC like 3x faster
Speed will be much enhanced because the new chip has built in bus support for CF/PCC and other neat shit.

[Michael Y]

XScale is(will be) a new processor. The first generation devices with XScale processors will run around 300 mHz, then eventually there will be a 400 mHz version of the processor. Devices with these processors will still run the PPC OS (the first ones will use PPC 2002). Hope this helps!

[NYIllustrator]

sounds cool, but I dont have the cash to run out and buy a new ppc right now, so Ill get the ppc 2002.

[RICoder]

oh, you just want to UPGRADE. I thought yuo meant get a new device...

silly me.

[TechMage]

XScale is not an OS, Xscale is a processor. The XScale processors run up to 400MHz. The new Pocket PCs will probably have Pocket PC 2002 (one already has this OS on it, the Pocket Loox), or Windows CE.NET (A new MicroSoft OS). The Pocket PC called the Pocket Loox, I believe will be avalible to buy in May, for the USA and UK. The Pocket Loox will have a 400MHz XScale processor and the Pocket PC 2002 OS. It will be able to run all of the old StrongArm (ARM) applications. If you want a good emulating machine, one that will run SNES and GBA emulators at full speed, you will want to wait for this device. I don't know if this is true, but I also heard that you can overclock an XScale to over 700Mhz!

[TechMage]

Damn it! You all beat me to it.

[NYIllustrator]

wow and to think, I was happy cause I got gps working on my ipaq.

[T¹]

Technically an Xscale cpu can be overclocked to run at 1ghz, as shown on the Intel site. And, although this comes at the cost of battery life, due to Xscale's power saving features it'll consume much less power than a StrongARM cpu overclocked to the same magnitude. In fact, i think that an Xscale running at 800mhz drains a similar amount of power to a StrongARM at 206mhz, due to the cpu production shift from 0.25 to 0.18 microns.

[NYIllustrator]

NICE!!