Windows CE and PDA devices

[K.I.L.E.R]

Where can I find information about the types of CPUs and GPUs on those things.
I'm going to be doing graphics heavy work on those things and I need information about them.

So far I've dug up some libraries I can use:
SDL, SQLite and TinyXML and my own from current development.

The problem is that I will not know the specs I will work on until our(my group and I) client tells us.

 

[Captain Chickenpants]

For 3d related stuff, on a PDA you should probably look at OpenGL-ES.
http://www.khronos.org/opengles/

You should be able to do your development on a PC and then have a fairly trivial porting job.

CC

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

OpenGL ES is on PDAs? Amazing. Thank you. I wasn't aware of this.
I don't even know if PDAs are computers or something else.

 

[Blazkowicz]

off course they are computers. a 100% compatible IBM PC in PDA form factor would be a PDA. a PDA with real keyb, mouse and screen would be a desktop computer.

on the borderline, the PDA that happen to have a phone in it (called smartphones). or even plain phones that you can download games for $$ on them. those are PDA / computers, but locked or crippled by the phone company. they certainly are computers, except in the sense we don't usually call a console a computer.

 

[Fox5]

As far as PDA's go, I'd recommend looking at the newer Oragami PCs, or something like the Oqo or Oqo 2, or Sony's equivalent palmtop PC.

In the PDA realm, I believe the Dell Axim x51v is basically the top of the hardware heap, as it's the only one I know of with a 3d accelerator built in.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thanks guys.
Anyone know of a PDA emulator? I just need to test performance on semi-decent PDAs as worst case scenario.

 

[Fox5]

Thanks guys.
Anyone know of a PDA emulator? I just need to test performance on semi-decent PDAs as worst case scenario.

I think there's an add on to Microsoft's visual studio that does this.

 

[Colourless]

Microsoft PocketPC emulators don't attempt to emulate the performance of the real devices. They only attempt to emulate the WindowsCE environment of the device.

 

[Fox5]

Microsoft PocketPC emulators don't attempt to emulate the performance of the real devices. They only attempt to emulate the WindowsCE environment of the device.

I don't know of any emulators that attempt to emulate the performance of the device, in that case I'd say just pick up a used pda on ebay.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Do I dare bug my mum about this?