Quake ported to the Pre, webOS 3D gaming truly within reach

Courtesy Engadget  Sun, 01/03/2010 - 01:10

Yeah, hardware accelerating Doom is an important milestone in any fledgling system's career, but when you talk 3D acceleration, Quake is certainly a giant leap ahead of Doom in polygonal terms.

The game has now been ported to webOS using the same new SDL library from version 1.3.5, and while it looks a little sluggish and crashy in the video after the break, it's clearly a landmark event just the same.

Now if only we could get...


 

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