Monday, June 06, 2005

Windows DS


According to N-next and GBAN64 The makers of GBA WinS have created a vastly enhanced port of GBA winS. WinS is very easy to use, to open apps and programs you simply click the mini-desktop icon. The DS version Boasts a variety of enhancements as well as touch screen support, a realtime clock, and a virtual keyboard. The demo also includes a variety of apps including WinS Paint, WinS basiCalc , Notepad, and 3 games. Here's a list of the DS versions features(note the DS version can also do anything the GBA version can do)

o• 100% Touch Screen Integration which means :
o Drag-able and Resize-able Windows
o On-Screen vKb (virtual Keyboard) for easy text editing
o Clickable Buttons and other Controls
o Cool new Application Lunching system and– Icons
o• On-Screen Real-Time-Clock
o• Can hold ANY GBA WinS application
    The WinS team also has a large amount of plans for the DS version including multiple file compatibilitylilty and Wifi useage. Here is a list of future enhancements.

    o• A File System using a Computer-based program to inject files
    o Using WiFi to:
    o Create a basic file types handlers :
    o Text, Pictures and documents viewers
    o Music : MP3, Ogg and WAV
    o Movies : low-res and low-bps MPG and AVI files
    o *.WnS Executable files as WinS Application
    o Moreover, almost ANY file!
    o• Using the NDS WiFi to:
    o Send WinS Applications or Files from one DS to another
    o Create a varieties of Web-Based applications :
    o Web Browser
    o MSN Messenger
    o ICQ
    o• Yahoo Messenger
    o IRC
    o Communication between multiple DS's
    o Support for full screen applications
    o• MAJOR Speed optimizations
    o Find a use for the second screen



    Source: N-next, GBAN64, WinS

    -Blackmajik

    11 Comments:

    Brent said...

    That's so kickass. It's a shame i'm basically retarded when it comes to getting stuff like that onto my DS.

    4:48 PM  
    Falco8 said...

    well I can't wait for this application come out on the Nintendo DS

    5:03 PM  
    blackmajik said...

    its allready out you just need a passme or wifi me and flash me

    5:08 PM  
    Falco8 said...

    where can we find WiFime and Flashme

    5:15 PM  
    VideoGamerJ said...

    I played around with it today and I wasnt very impressed. Has a lot of potential but right now is too early to enjoy. Window dragging laggs, and the applications are lame. Typing is far off from being as good as Pictochat as well.

    10:44 PM  
    Anonymous said...

    Yeah... everyone is getting so excited about this program, even though its very limited at this point. Some people are actually rushing out to by equipment so they can run it on their DS's. At this point, I think thats a little premature. There aren't any worthwhile applications for it, and it runs extremely slow.

    I really think the creator of it should stress the fact that this isn't a "windows clone," and that it is simply an application that looks vaugely similar to windows. It works entirely different than the way windows does, and has none of its features or compatibility.

    3:47 AM  
    Anonymous said...

    There really isn't ANY reason to get a passme/wifi card(compatible with wifime program)/Neoflash or anything at the moment. As the only demos worth playing are the ones from e3. ALL the homebrew for ds is pretty limited in gameplay and not that great. The only reason I got a passme was so I could patch my firmware to get rid of that annoying warning screen and run the Meteos demo off my gba cart. Until there are some emulators released, there really is no reason to get "equiptment" for anything...I think everyone is just getting a little to hyped up over something they know little about...

    6:00 AM  
    Anonymous said...

    Oh, and Neoflash stinks BTW...don't waste 200+ dollars on it, especially when your saved games need a real ds cartridge and the saved game on the real ds cart gets erased...(most of the time...) Just be patient, something will come up ;)

    6:03 AM  
    Anonymous said...

    Cool, now if only they made one more like OSX.....maybe even make it run like OSX.....that'd be nice.

    Jimmie

    3:45 PM  
    PSP Quality Man. said...

    Well it will CRASH as many times as Windows ME and 2000 does on my Step Mons computer?

    Can I now down load lesbian prono and maybe BuKAKKA?

    But really it sounds like a gay idea, but better on PSP.

    2:57 AM  
    Anonymous said...

    Sounds like great, but where I can download this?

    6:03 AM  

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