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Week of December 9, 2001

MikroRabi now available for the Nokia 9200

MikroRabbi which is a program that containes many different bible editions in different languages is now available. Its a Finnish program and I dont speak Finnish so I cant tell you much about it.

Please e-mail me if you can tell me something more.

The program cost around 60 Euros.

Bibles included (English):
King James Version
American Standard Version 1901
Darby Bible
World English Bible

More about Mikro Rabbi:

http://www.mikrorabbi.net/mr9210.php?AL=family

Posted by Rafe on 15/12/2001 |

New Game: Capsule SE for the Nokia 9200

Capsule SE can now be bought via the Handango site. It is a port of a PPC game. It is a Tetris type game, but it has an added element and is slightly different. You must kill bugs by lining up same colour pills as they fall. The geame can be played as one player or two players can play on One Communicator head to head. The game costs $19.95.

From the Handango website:

Get rid of the bugs on the screen! This is done by positioning the capsules dropping from the top of the screen to the top or sides of the bugs. There are three different colored bugs, and the capsules also contain these three colors. When four or more of the same color are in line, the items containing these are removed. Remove all bugs to move to the next level. There are 25 levels. Includes a time challenge, normal and two player modes. Languages are English, German, French, Swedish and Finnish.

Some useful information on the game and some additional screenshots are available in the excellent aikon website here: http://www.aikon.ch/reviews/sw_review.php3?softwareid=139

Posted by Rafe on 15/12/2001 |

New Java Game for the 9200: Space Taxi

Now available via the Nokia Software Market is the Mobile Java Game Space Taxi. Space Taxi is a realistic and richly colored pinball game presented in 2D. The entire game board is visible on the handset screen. You must have firmware version 3.62 or above for this program to work.

The game can be bought via the Nokia Software Market for 10 Euros at http://www.softwaremarket.nokia.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=358685&PN=1&SP=10023&xid=37651&DSP=&CUR=978&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0

From the website:

Space Taxi - Mobile Java-Game for Nokia 9210 Communicator

Genre: Pinball machines have thrived for years, from arcades all the way to Java-enabled mobile phones. Therefore, pinball is without doubt a universally known concept in the game world. What make the Space Taxi pinball special are the Nokia 9210 Communicator’s graphic features and especially its screen and controls. The screen is of the handset is of the right shape and size, its control keys are positioned perfectly, and its graphics provide a a convincing illusion of a real pinball machine. The game board also stands out from many other pinball games by having a theme with interesting objectives.

About Space Taxi: Space Taxi is a realistic and richly colored pinball game presented in 2D. The entire game board is visible on the handset screen. The Nokia 9210 Communicator is held vertically. Above the game board, there is a LED scoreboard, which provides information during the game. The game follows a distinct theme: the player is the driver of a space taxi. The main objective is to activate the taxi stand light, pick up customers from the ramp and take them to various specified planets. Other objectives include activating letter and ramp lights, shooting active ramps to increase the ramp score, activating and rotating entry lights to increase the score multiplier, shooting bumpers and the nightshift mode sign for a temporary double score multiplier. The game board contains two pairs of flippers, three ramps, four bumpers, five rows of letter lights, three shooters, one teleportation device, five mission lights, two rows of ramp lights, and one row of score multiplier lights.

Target Group: Space Taxi has an extremely broad target group: pinball games are by nature highly accessible and appeal to a great variety of people.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! This application is compatible with Nokia 9210 Communicator software version 3.62. Check your Nokia 9210 Communicator software version before buying Space Taxi by pressing *#0000# in your phone.

If you have older software version, you will not be able to play Space Taxi.

Posted by Rafe on 15/12/2001 |

Classic Pak goes to version 1.02

Fatz Catz has released ClassicPak 1.02 for the Nokia 9210 . ClassicPak is a collection of two classic puzzle games: Spheres and Mines9200. Spehres is also known as Swirl or Cascaide, while Mines9200 is an implementation of the classic Minesweeper game. ClassicPak is Freeware!

New in this version is correct install of help files and a high score code generator. A webpage has been set up to compare high scores at the FatCatz website.

Spheres: Also known as Samegame and Swirl. The object of the game is to remove all the spheres from the screen. But you can only remove two or more spheres immediately adjacent to each other at a time.

Mines9200: Also known as Minesweeper. The object of the game is to locate all the mines as quickly as possible without uncovering any of them. If you uncover a mine, you lose the game.

Best of all, its free!

Please note both games require he OPL runtime from Symbian which can be downloaded here
Available from http://www.fatcatz.net/

Posted by Rafe on 15/12/2001 |

SkiFlying now available via Handango

SkiFlying - the skijumping game, which has really gorgeous background graphics, is now available from Handango at a cost of $14.95. The game was previously only available to Sonera's customers, but thank to the new availability can now be played by all!

The game does require a lot of memory to run - a round 3,200 kb, so it may be necessary to reboot the machine and or use a memory manager to close some of the open programs.

From the Handango site @ http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&catalog=0§ionId=0&productType=2&platformId=4&productId=23250

Extremely cool game made by gamers to gamers: SKIFLYING. Game is total eye candy with smooth scrolling and real physics. All this with most advanced PDA device: Nokia 9210!
Game specifications are:

Real physics
Total eye candy graphics
Real world point calculations
4 great carefully hand-crafted hills
Addictive tour mode
Best score training
Simple visual manual
Unbeliveable playability
Funky pad style user interface.

All these will make you to play again and again!

Posted by Rafe on 15/12/2001 |

Updates to Chess and SMS Assistant and Others

There has been an update made available for MTIT Chess game. The new version now works with firmware 3.18 where previously there were problems. SMS Assistant has been updated and is now available in Polish.

You can download Chess at http://www.mtit1.at/as/scripts/active.asp

SMS Assistant can be downloaded from http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Eeerola/

Smallbase has been updated to 2.21 and has a few bug fixes. It can be downloaded from http://corisoft.free.fr

Bitween who are working on a remote control program e-mailed me recently to say that they have some new screenshots on their website and expect a beta release soon. See http://www.bitween.com/

Posted by Rafe on 11/12/2001 |

Developer Roundup: ExpertZone, New SDK and More

In our regular developer roundup there are several interesting pieces of news. Firstly there is a chance for developer to submit questions on SMS to a Nokia ExpertZone (but hurry only a day left). The SDK for the 7650 is now available and some more examples and tools for the 9200 Developer.

The ExpertZone is on SMS Messaging in Symbian Crystal Platform and for this open period, Forum Nokia experts will answer to selected questions about messaging between two Crystal applications.

Experts:
Phong Vu Senior Technology Expert (Nokia)
Mika Kinnunen Technology Expert (Nokia)
Tuomas Eerola Senior Technology Expert (Nokia)
Ari Aumala Technology Expert (Nokia)
Topi Reini� Technology Expert (Nokia)
Forum Nokia Expert Group (Nokia)

Schedule:
10/Dec/2001 08:00 (GMT) Zone open for questions
12/Dec/2001 20:00 (GMT) Last day to enter questions
14/Dec/2001 08:00 (GMT) The selected answers are published
31/Jan/2002 00:00 (GMT) This Expert Zone is closed and selected answers are moved to the Knowledge Base

You can also see the results of the previous Expert Zone
See http://www.forum.nokia.com/symbianforum/main/1,6668,1_48_40,00.html(registered Forum Nokia member only).

The Nokia 7650 SDK has been available for sometime now as a free SDK from Nokia. If you get it working let me know!

The Nokia 7650 is phone an imaging that inspires strong emotional attachment. It is a device for sharing experiences through rich communication. It facilitates person-to-person or person-to-group multimedia communication based on self-created content. The imaging phone is exciting, fun, and easy to use.
The imaging functionalities of the Nokia 7650 include an integrated digital camera with image capture at 640x480 resolution, picture taking and sending, a photo album for storing pictures, and a large 176x208 pixel color display. MMS works in much the same way as SMS messages, but allows users to combine audio-, graphic-, text- and imaging content in one message. Once the user has selected a picture, written a text, and included an audio clip, the multimedia message can be sent directly to another multimedia messaging capable terminal as well as to the recipient's e-mail address. The advanced graphical user interface and 5-way navigation joystick help make this new device fast and easy to use.

The Nokia 7650 delivers a full range of functions for professional needs in the EGSM900/1800 environment. These include GPRS and HSCSD connections, WAP, wireless Bluetooth and infrared connectivity, e-mail (e-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4) and MIDP Java support. The hands-free speaker and voice dialing capability increase convenience when on the go.

The Nokia 7650 runs on Symbian OS, which is not only an operating system but also a full software and communications platform. It allows different manufacturer's devices to interoperate with each other, while still allowing a substantial differentiation of the products. As it is an open platform, virtually anybody can develop software for Symbian-powered devices. This means more applications to choose from, and a larger market for developers. Clearly defined APIs allow 3rd party developers to create applications that can be easily downloaded, installed, and run natively on the terminal Symbian OS. Written in C++, it is a fully object-oriented operating system, which contributes to its re-use, flexibility, and efficiency. The Symbian C++ APIs enable extremely efficient multi-tasking and memory management.

The Nokia 7650 and the Series 60 Platform

The Nokia 7650 is based on the Series 60 Platform. The Nokia 7650 includes not only the Series 60 Platform software, but also some product-specific features, such as a camera interface. The integrated camera is a differentiator that Nokia has chosen, but other licensees have the freedom to come up with their own innovations.

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6668,1_48_70,00.html

Recenetly it has been updated and the Camera API's are now available:

Camera API for Nokia 7650 enables 3rd party users to develop applications with "Nokia Series 60 SDK for Symbian OS", that can use the build-in camera on Nokia 7650.
See http://www.forum.nokia.com/symbianforum/main/1,6668,1_48_70_25,00.html (registered Forum Nokia member only).

There are also some new documents available in the Communicator section at http://www.forum.nokia.com/symbianforum/main/1,6668,1_48_60_20,00.html:

Infrared activation in Symbian Crystal applications
Symbian applications for Crystal devices should allow activation and deactivation of infrared reception. This document describes how to enable infrared toggle in a Symbian Crystal application.
Infrared_activation_in_Symbian_Crystal_applications.pdf
(PDF file, size 19.5 KB)

How to develop Java™ Applications for the Nokia 9210 Communicator
The Nokia 9210 Communicator is the first Nokia product with wireless Java support. You can write Java applications and applets by installing "Nokia 9200 Communicator Series SDK for Symbian OS". You can order the SDK by filling in the request form here. This document explains how to start Java application development for Symbian OS and Nokia 9210 Communicator.
9210JavaHowTo_v1.1.pdf (PDF file, size 144 KB)

There are some other updates WAP & Java.
See http://www.forum.nokia.com/latest.html

Posted by Rafe on 11/12/2001 |

Ximplify myList now Available for 9210

Ximplify myList has been udergoing private testing for sometime now, but the final release is now here. Ximplify myList is a list making utility to help you make various types of lists such as shopping lists, attendance lists, things to do and so on. This is the first release in a series of Ximplify programs. You can download a demo now and buy the software for $30.

Ximplify myList supports:

Password protection for individual lists

Item hierarchy (a natural way of writing up lists)

Linking of items to files

Customized list

SMS, email and faxing of lists and/or items.

and much, much more.

See more screenshots at /allabouter6-late/communicator/software/details/mylist.php

Rafe's Comment:
I was contacted by the author of this program early on, and it has gone through a very intensive testing period so that it is now very very good. I would recommend that everyone download and give it a try, for many people this application will make their 9210 that bit more indispensible and I'm sure it will feature of many people's must have list!

In addition as a way to support All About ER6 you can buy the program though this page at no extra cost. As a result I get some of the sale price and you can help keep this site alive.

If you would like to download a demo of the program you can do so here. To buy the app throught this site follow this link.

Posted by Rafe on 10/12/2001 |

Customise your 9210 Even More!

All About ER6 now helps you to customise your 9210 ecen more. I've updated the downloads section to include more wallpapers in the form of 'skins' from Loonyworld. Also available are more than 1,400 graphics for use as Operator Logos on the phone side of the 9210.

The skins include two components:
a) A wallpaper which matches
b) A Command Button Area Texture
Full instructions on how to make best use of the files are included in the tutorial.
See /allabouter6-late/communicator/downloads/wallpapers/loony.php

The Operator Logos allow you to customise the phone side of your 9210. See more at /allabouter6-late/downloads/operatorlogos/oplogo.php
Instructions on how to use these are on the page linked to above.

Posted by Rafe on 10/12/2001 |

VIM available for 9200

VIM, a mainstay of the text editing world has been ported to ER6 by Edmund Roland (author of Frodo). VIM is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems. There are some bugs in the port and not all features are finished or included. The source code is available as this program is OpenSource.

From the website:
VIM for EPOC was ported to EPOC by Keith Walker. I 'ported' it from ER5 to ER6, it was quite easy. You can download VIM for ER6 here, it has been tested on a Nokia 9210 and compiled with the GnuPoc project. It still has some bugs but works quite well. Both source code and binaries are available, but unfortunately no .sis files (yet) because makesis does not work on my Linux machine. You are welcome to redistribute VIM as both source and binary, and also as .sis file.

You can download VIM for the 9210 @ http://edmund.roland.org/vim/index.html and find out more about VIM at http://www.vim.org

Posted by Rafe on 10/12/2001 |