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~YuckFou~

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I've just got SimCity 2000 for the Ipaq (free with purchase voucher), and wondered if anyone had any other good games they would recommend?

On a separate subject TomTom Navigator is the business if you have a PDA and want full voice SatNav :)
 
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Jonty

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If you're into FPS (who isn't? :p) then you can play Quake I. I believe the original Doom and (I think) Quake II are also available. If you're into Lara, then Tomb Raider is also out there for the PocketPC. Finally, MonkeyStone develop games for the Pocket PC, which receive a lot of attention due to John Romero's involvement (former id and Ion Storm wiz).

Kind Regards

Edit ~ Tucows and the like also have a PDA section with games and other freeware/shareware goodies
 
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~YuckFou~

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Cheers, I'll check those links.
I do play FPS games (exclusively in fact) but I'm not sure the IPAQ has the best controls for that type of game :)
Sim City is the first game of it's type I've ever played, it might be fun when sat in car parks waiting for colleagues/bored in hotel rooms etc.
 
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PR.

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You have Monopoly and Scrabble, you can also get a game called Snails which is basically a copy of Worms the same company is also making Worms for the PPC.

www.handango.com for all your iPAQ needs
 
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Tom

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Yuck can u tell me a little about the performance of TomTom? I'm considering getting GPS (I have an Ipaq 3630 no expansions), but I fancy the navman cos it has an expansion slot.

Can you wire it into a car radio, and by that I mean will it give you a mute facility?
 
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~YuckFou~

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Originally posted by Tom[SHOTTEH]
Yuck can u tell me a little about the performance of TomTom? I'm considering getting GPS (I have an Ipaq 3630 no expansions), but I fancy the navman cos it has an expansion slot.

Can you wire it into a car radio, and by that I mean will it give you a mute facility?
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Excellent tbh.
Best £250 I ever spent, I use an a 128mb SD card for the whole of the UK.
Navman is portable (hiking etc), but GPS reception is apparently not as good. With TTN you can put the receiver on the dash, giving it a better chance at getting a fix (it can see the sky).
Mines essentialy hardwired in, nice and neat, but removeable when needed (holiday rental cars etc). The Points of interest are excellent and loads can be downloaded free from the site below.
I was stuck for a car park in central London the other day and I was navigated to one very close, thank god :)

These guys have reviewed all the stuff worth having. The forums are a good place to ask any questions, answers are pretty quick.

I also use POIWarner, this tells me when I'm approaching any "Safety Cameras", £13 well spent imo.
 
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Tom

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How much is the SD card? And which model of ipaq do u have?
 
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~YuckFou~

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SD Card was £48 (Map of whole UK took +/- 90mb so space left over)
Ipaq 3970
 
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Tom

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One other thing, is it possible for the software to make a loud BEEP or other noise on direction changes, im thinking of motorway trips with the radio turned up
 
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~YuckFou~

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Well the thing is unless you are looking at the screen you won't know which way to turn :)
I turn up the Ipaq volume to full when travelling, I tend to have music on most of the time, you will hear that she has said something. It does tell you in fairly big text how many miles/yards to the next instruction, and shows a sign, like a left turn or whatever. The instructions are just .wav files so you could edit them to be louder (or beeps), although that might sound shit.
Afaik you can put the output through your stereo, I'm going to struggle though I think because I'm doing that with my phone. A thought that just occured is using a phone car kit type powered speaker hidden under the dash, should work.
 
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Tom

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One option is to buy one of those cassette input devices, from the headphone socket on the ipaq, that would work.

I'm quite chuffed that the audio files are .wav, I could have some fun with that :D

btw I hate you for having a better model than mine - I bought mine when they first came out, I absolutely could not wait!

I'm going to wait a couple of months for financial reasons, then buy one.
 
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~YuckFou~

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I only got mine recently, used the SatNav as an arguement to purchase with Mrs Yuck. I looked at the 5450, but the only difference was WiFi (don't need) and fingerprint recognition, useless tbh. Thought I'd get the best as anything else would just be a false economy long term.
I'd be lost without it now, I Bluetooth with my moby for email, have all my .pdf, .xls and .doc stuff on it. It saves me carrying a laptop around 80% of the time. My next addon will be the video output gizmo, then I can do Powerpoint presentations on it, already got the software :)

I found this which you might find useful.
 
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Tom

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The SD card, does it require a sleeve, or does it plug straight into your ipaq? And what sleeve would it require? Im thinking of just geetting a compact flash sleeve.
 
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north_star

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The 3900 series of Ipaqs have SD memory support built into the unit (slot is located on top of the device).

If you buy a package you will normaly get a Compact flash jacket and a 128mb card with car mounts, receiver and the GPS software.

Compact flash is alot cheaper than SD and not all GPS software will allow map storage on SD memory.

I must admit TOMTOM 2 does look good. I'm currently using Destinator which is good. But you will need a 256mb card to fit the entire UK and the main roads of Europe.
 
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Tom

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http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-info3-info.asp?&m=y&quicklinx=1Y3S

I just ordered the above, and then panicked - does this jacket retain the use of the socket on the bottom of the ipaq, the small one that the gps goes into?

argh!

BTW the TOMTOM maps are 96Mb for the UK, which is fine for me. I can install the Europe maps separately, although im disappointed to see they don't do Greece yet.
 
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PR.

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That will use the expansion sleeve socket, but the synch port will still be available
 
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~YuckFou~

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Looks interesting, however I'm still struggling to build a town in SimCity without my citizens physically escorting me out of town :/
 
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Gumbo

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Originally posted by Tom[SHOTTEH]
One option is to buy one of those cassette input devices, from the headphone socket on the ipaq, that would work.
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Not if you value the cassette function of your stereo at all, those cassette adaptors are bad bad things for tape heads.
 
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