The Official VGA Optimised Software List

[TheCooperman]

Thanks for the great and informative list.

[rafalb]

Hi there !

Any one knows where I can find trial version or demo of Simcity 2000 v 1.10. Link from the list dasn't work.

[dgt23]

In my opinion the real VGA is just very useful on web browsing.

[puntloos]

In Games, why do you call Bejeweled VGA optimized? It works, sure, but it's obviously pixel-doubled. Bejeweled 2 is VGA res.

Also in Games: Quake Mobile (by pulse interactive) only works on axim x5x'es - its vga and requires a 2700g..
Also-also in Games: Id say scummvm (which is a game emulator) should be listed - and yes its smoothing algorythm smoothes the native 320x240 games to 640x480.

[HawkesNest]

Z2 Remote2PC is VGA and Landscape optimized, and is a great WiFi way to monitor your children’s activities while they are on the PC surfing. I have been using it for a good six months now on my X50v and have been very pleased. You have full control of the remote PC and screen updates are very near real time, I would say at most a second delay if that. and I'm sure it could be useful at work too to be able to remotely access servers to check on them too. I'm not sure what catagory this would go in, maybe "Other".

[scippy]

Res2exe strips out program icon

I've found two solution around this problem:

***************** FIRST SOLUTION *************************************

Make a copy of the hidpi.res file into your project folder.
Open it in VS.NET (or your favourite resource editor)
Click with right mouse button on hidpi.res for adding a resources, import the .ico file and set the ID of the icon resource

to 32512
Add any other resources to the project if you so wish, like VERSIONINFO etc, as these will also disappear.

Important, it appears you then need to remove the name of the icon from the project properties, otherwise it will not go

hires

Save the modified hidpi.res file in your project's path and alter two lines in the hires macro.
Change:

Dim ResFile As String = """" + SecondEditionResources + "\hidpi.res"""

to

Dim ResFile As String = """" + ActiveProject.Properties.Item("LocalPath").Value + "\hidpi.res"""

Change the line

Dim ActiveProject As Project = DTE.ActiveWindow.Project

to

Dim ActiveProject As Project = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(DTE.Solution.SolutionBu ild.StartupProjects(0))

Then it won't fail with an error if a project window isn't in focus.

I also made one other change, as I found if I didn't save the project first then it sometimes didn't build hi-res aware, so I

added the line:

ActiveProject.Save()

after the "Dim Solution ..." line

I haven try to get it to work with the cabinet builder, and It work all OK!

You can see the new debug and release macro for hires projects below:
================== The modify MACRO HIRES ================================
Imports EnvDTE
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Module hires
Sub hires_dbg()
' Path for 2nd Edition Resources. You may need to change this to match your setup.
Dim SecondEditionResources As String = "C:\Program Files\Developer Resources for Windows Mobile 2003 Second

Edition\tools\"
Dim ActiveProject As Project = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(DTE.Solution.SolutionBu ild.StartupProjects(0))
Dim Solution As SolutionBuild = DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild

ActiveProject.Save()

' Create the command line for marking the output file as resolution aware
Dim ResFile As String = """" + ActiveProject.Properties.Item("LocalPath").Value + "\hidpi.res"""
Dim Params As String = " -r -c "
Dim Res2Exe As String = """" + SecondEditionResources + "\res2exe.exe"""
Dim OutputFile As String = """" + ActiveProject.Properties.Item("LocalPath").Value + "\obj\Debug\" +

ActiveProject.Properties.Item("OutputFileName").Value + """"
Dim Command As String = Res2Exe + Params + ResFile + " " + OutputFile

' Build, mark has resolution aware, and then launch the debugger
Solution.BuildProject("Debug", ActiveProject.UniqueName, True)
Shell(Command, AppWinStyle.Hide, True)
DTE.Debugger.Go(True)
End Sub

Sub hires_rls()
' Path for 2nd Edition Resources. You may need to change this to match your setup.
Dim SecondEditionResources As String = "C:\Program Files\Developer Resources for Windows Mobile 2003 Second

Edition\tools\"
Dim ActiveProject As Project = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(DTE.Solution.SolutionBu ild.StartupProjects(0))
Dim Solution As SolutionBuild = DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild

ActiveProject.Save()

' Create the command line for marking the output file as resolution aware
Dim ResFile As String = """" + ActiveProject.Properties.Item("LocalPath").Value + "\hidpi.res"""
Dim Params As String = " -r -c "
Dim Res2Exe As String = """" + SecondEditionResources + "\res2exe.exe"""
Dim OutputFile As String = """" + ActiveProject.Properties.Item("LocalPath").Value + "\obj\Release\" +

ActiveProject.Properties.Item("OutputFileName").Value + """"
Dim Command As String = Res2Exe + Params + ResFile + " " + OutputFile

' Build, mark has resolution aware, and then launch the debugger
Solution.BuildProject("Release", ActiveProject.UniqueName, True)
Shell(Command, AppWinStyle.Hide, True)
DTE.Debugger.Go(False)
End Sub
End Module


[Original Author: Robert Levy]

***************** SECOND SOLUTION *************************************

The second solution is very simply!
You must remove from your original hires macro the option -r
Change the line

Dim Params As String = " -r -c "

to

Dim Params As String = " -c "

In this way the icon information of your application is no lost after you use res2exe, but you must remember to rebuild zone

of your application everytime before you lunch the hires macro!



Hope this helps :)... an italian .net programmer

scippy@tin.it

[Cape Codder]

First time I try to upload a game to my new V51 and it doesn't work. Atomic Cannon Demo seemed to install OK but when I click to open the program it "blew up"
All I get is repetitive music and a vertically lined screen of garbage.
Any help in explaining this whould be appreciated. In the meantime how about not recommending something that does not work.

probably not capatible with wm5

[qqfob]

First time I try to upload a game to my new V51 and it doesn't work. Atomic Cannon Demo seemed to install OK but when I click to open the program it "blew up"
All I get is repetitive music and a vertically lined screen of garbage.
Any help in explaining this whould be appreciated. In the meantime how about not recommending something that does not work.

that game has a problem with WM5 and VGA. there is a beta out that had fixed the problem. visit their website for more information

[ZkiiFreak]

How come RemoteAMP is on this list? I mean: I can't see any VGA skins out there? Has anyone seen them? :approve:

Anyways: THANKS indeed for compiling this list

[mhynek]

Microsoft entertainment pack works on my x51v. Haven't tried it in true vga though.

> And in 3 years Pocket TV hasn't improved past mpeg 1, let's not talk about Microsoft

You missed a few significant developments: We have optimized PocketTV to take advantage of several hardware accelerator chips (ATI Imageon and Intel 2700G) allowing VGA-resolution playback at full framerate on the devices that have these video chips. And we include all that in the freeware version.

And naturally, PocketTV plays in true VGA resolution on native VGA devices.

TCPMP does a much better job than PocketTV, and supports heaps of other formats. I haven't used PocketTV since my Jornada 545 days.

> And let's quit using the stupid term "True VGA", just because fonts and menus are larger, does not make them non-vga.

Totally agree, this "True VGA" term only refers to the size of the UI elements, not the resolution of the display!

I quite like the term "True VGA" as it does better represent the higher resolution offered by hacks like OzVGA. Microsoft's version of the VGA interface on VGA devices doesn't take advantage of the higher res for displaying more information. Since receiving my X50v 5 days ago I have used "True VGA" for at least 95% of the time. Its sooooo much better than Microsofts VGA interface.

[pmcizhere]

I love OzVGA as well, yet I don't like incompatibility issues with it. Since I'm a gamer, this is an issue. Many games look way too small or display right but only register taps in the upper-left portion of the screen. Just hafta wait for updates...

[STi Sev]

I have tried earnestly to go VGA. I really wanted to use my device to its maximum ability and enjoy the increased resolution, but there are too many problems to list with programs I use on a daily basis.

The only thing I currently use VGA for are 1) Web browsing 2) Reading eBooks on Axim

I'm still using mine exclusively with the OzVGA hack. Whenever I got back to normal everything looks weird because I have it setup so that the higher res looks good :