Guest midnight Posted October 29, 2003 Report Share Posted October 29, 2003 Some interesting new developments are happening in the PocketPC and Smartphone world regarding gaming technology...... Microsoft plans to radically boost the multimedia performance of the next generation of PDAs and smartphones based on its software, if pronouncements made at this year's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) come to fruition. Bigger screens are nice, but were a logical step in the evolution of both hardware and software. More interesting is Microsoft's announcement to roll its DirectX multimedia APIs into Windows Mobile. Interestingly, the company's porting efforts are centring on the visual components of DirectX - DirectDraw for 2D, Direct3D and DirectShow for camera and video digitisation support - rather than audio. Source: The Register Whats also interesting is that this release should coincide with the new Intel XScale processors which will implement the MMX instruction set which will accelerate multimedia functions even further (and also includes SpeedStep power conservation which throttles back the chip's operating frequency and core voltage on the fly according to processor load), and if thats not enough, both ATi and NVidia are also looking into 3D hardware acceleration of mobile phones/pdas, and this may well be just the news they need to here to make it a reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crispy Posted October 30, 2003 Report Share Posted October 30, 2003 DirectX for phones ... Now we're talking 8) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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