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46-480: In 2007, with the advent of Windows Mobile 6.0 , Microsoft dropped the name Pocket PC in favor of a new naming scheme: As of 2010, thousands of applications existed for handhelds adhering to the Microsoft Pocket PC specification, many of which were freeware . Microsoft-compliant Pocket PCs can be used with many add-ons such as GPS receivers , barcode readers, RFID readers, and cameras. Pocket PC

92-443: A different device than which they were designed for. ROM burners are used to copy ROM images to hardware , such as ROM cartridges , or ROM chips , for debugging and QA testing . ROMs can be copied from the read-only memory chips found in cartridge-based games and many arcade machines using a dedicated device in a process known as dumping . For most common home video game systems, these devices are widely available, examples being

138-484: A heavy copy protection algorithm which was not broken until 7 years after the system's release in 1993. The original crack by the CPS2Shock Team was not a true emulation of the protection because it used XOR tables to bypass the original encryption and allow the game to play in an emulator. Their stated intent was to wait until CPS-2 games were no longer profitable to release the decryption method (three years after

184-502: A language for which a game was not originally made available. Hacks can often take humorous forms, as is the case with a hack of the NES version of Mario Bros. , titled Afro Mario Brothers , which features the famous brothers wearing Afro haircuts . The Metroid Redesign mod is a hack of Super Metroid that revamps the game and adds new objectives. A large scene has developed to translate games into other languages. Many games receive

230-547: A positive effect on preservation. While over time many original ROM copies of older games may deteriorate, be broken or thrown away, a copy in file form may be distributed throughout the world, allowing games which would otherwise have been lost a greater chance of survival. Once games have been made available in ROM format, it is possible for users to make modifications. This may take the form of altering graphics, changing game levels, tweaking difficulty factor, or even translation into

276-422: A project called Vocals of Phantasia was begun to translate the actual speech from the game. An official English version was not released until March 2006, some five years after the text translation was released. Another example was that of Mother 3, a Japan-only sequel to the cult-favorite Earthbound . In spite of massive fan response and several petitions for an English translation, the only response from Nintendo

322-605: A release in one part of the world, but not in another. For example, many role-playing video games released in Japan go unreleased in the West and East outside Japan. A group of fan translators will often translate the game themselves to meet demand for titles. For example, the 1995 game Tales of Phantasia was only officially released in Japan; DeJap Translations translated the game's on-screen text into English in 2001. Further to this,

368-662: A single one of the thousands of apps available for Windows Mobile would run unaltered on Windows Phone. From a technical standpoint, "Pocket PC" is a Microsoft specification that sets various hardware and software requirements for mobile devices bearing the "Pocket PC" label. For instance, any device which is to be classified as a Pocket PC must: The first Windows Mobile 6.5 device was first shown in September 2009. Leaked ROMs surfaced in July 2009 for specific devices. The generic ROM images for Mobile 6.5 are also available as part of

414-654: A touchscreen on the latter. Some examples of current Pocket PCs with GPS integrated are the Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox N560 , a high-end Pocket PC with a VGA screen and an integrated SiRF Star III GPS; the HTC TyTN , a small communicator with integrated slide in keyboard; the HP hw6945 and HP iPAQ hw6515 with integrated thumb-board , GPS and GSM/GPRS telephony; the HTC top-of-the-line Universal, branded as

460-634: Is cold-booted . Further updates, both security and feature wise, can now also be provided using Operating System Live Update Among other improvements: 320x320 and 800x480 (WVGA) screen resolution support (The S01SH or "Em One" by Sharp was the first and only device to have an 800x480 screen on WM5), Improved Remote Desktop access (Available for only certain Pocket PCs), Customer Feedback option, Smartfilter for searching within programs and Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) support for select operators. ROM image A ROM image , or ROM file ,

506-412: Is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip , often from a video game cartridge , or used to contain a computer's firmware , or from an arcade game 's main board . The term is frequently used in the context of emulation , whereby older games or firmware are copied to ROM files on modern computers and can, using a piece of software known as an emulator, be run on

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552-520: Is a significant worry that many early computer and video games may not survive without being transferred to new media. So, those with an interest in preservation are actively seeking older arcade and video games and attempting to dump them to ROM images. When stored on standardized media such as CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs, they can be copied to future media with significantly reduced effort. The trend towards mass digital distribution of ROM image files, while potentially damaging to copyright holders, may also have

598-421: Is a version of Windows Mobile released on February 12, 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 . It comes in three different versions: "Windows Mobile 6 Standard" for Smartphones (phones with touchscreens), "Windows Mobile 6 Professional" for Pocket PCs with phone functionality, and "Windows Mobile 6 Classic" for Pocket PCs without cellular radios. Windows Mobile 6 is powered by Windows CE 5.0 (version 5.2) and

644-548: Is being developed for embedded computers is often written to ROM files for testing on a standard computer before it is written to a ROM chip for use in the embedded systems. The lifespan of digital media is rarely great. While black-and-white photographs may survive for a century or more, many digital media can become unreadable after only 10 years. This is beginning to become a problem as early computer systems may be presently fifty or sixty years old while early home video consoles may be almost forty years old. Due to this aging, there

690-627: Is now preinstalled with the OS. Developers and users also have access to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition for storage and retrieval of information. AJAX , JavaScript , and XMLDOM support were added to Internet Explorer Mobile along with improved devicewide Internet Sharing. Communication abilities were further enhanced with a new Microsoft Bluetooth Stack and VoIP (Internet calling) support with acoustic echo cancellation and MSRT Audio Codec. To improve security Microsoft added Storage Card Encryption so that encryption keys are lost if device

736-790: Is put in the SIM card and follow the wizard, to put their SIM contacts in the address book. An example is O2's Xda , or T-Mobile's MDA Compact . Both of these devices, while bearing the phone operator's logo, are manufactured by the dominant Pocket PC manufacturer HTC . One of the more popular high-end consumer-market Pocket PCs was the Dell Axim x51v, which was discontinued in 2007. Hardware specs included 3.7" color TFT VGA display with 640x480 resolution, Intel XScaleTM PXA270 processor at 624 MHz, 336 MB of memory (256 MB flash, 64 MB SDRAM), integrated 802.11b and Bluetooth 1.2, integrated Intel 2700G multimedia accelerator with 16 MB video memory. Expansion

782-565: Is strongly linked to the then newly introduced Windows Live and Exchange 2007 products. Windows Mobile 6 Standard was first offered on the Orange's SPV E650 , while Windows Mobile 6 Professional was first offered on the O2's Xda Terra. Aesthetically, Windows Mobile 6 was meant to be similar in design to the then newly released Windows Vista . Functionally, it works much like its predecessor Windows Mobile 5 , but with improved stability. Along with

828-686: The Doctor V64 , or the Retrode . Dumping ROMs from arcade machines, which are highly customized PCBs , often requires individual setups for each machine along with a large amount of expertise. While ROM images are often used as a means of preserving the history of computer games, they are also often used to facilitate the unauthorized copying and redistribution of modern games. Viewing this as potentially reducing sales of their products, many game companies have incorporated features into newer games which are designed to prevent copying, while still allowing

874-509: The Web , and more." Prior to the release of Windows Mobile 2003 , third-party software was developed using Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools, eMbedded Visual Basic (eVB) and eMbedded Visual C (eVC). eVB programs can usually be converted fairly easily to NS Basic/CE. or to Basic4ppc. In 2007 the Pocket PC name was dropped altogether. The Pocket PC Phone Edition became Windows Mobile Professional;

920-403: The 1970s. In 1982, Hewlett Packard's HP-75 incorporated a 1-line text display, an alphanumeric keyboard, HP BASIC language and some basic PDA abilities. The HP 95LX , HP 100LX and HP 200LX series packed a PC-compatible MS-DOS computer with graphics display and QWERTY keyboard into a palmtop format. The HP OmniGo 100 and 120 used a pen and graphics interface on DOS-based PC/GEOS , but

966-585: The Handheld PC and also ran Windows CE , however this version was more limited and lacked Pocket Microsoft Office , Pocket Internet Explorer , ActiveX and some other tools. Its main competitor was the PalmPilot and Palm III . According to the specification, Palm-size PCs use SuperH SH3 processors and MIPS architecture . The term "palm-sized PC" was also used as a generic term of similar such devices that are not necessary connected to Microsoft, such as

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1012-684: The PDA abilities. Before the Pocket PC brand was launched, there were other Windows-based machines of the same form factor called Palm-size PCs. These devices ran Windows CE 2.0–2.11 and had an interface that was similar to the then-current desktop versions of Windows like Windows 95 . The first of these was the Everex Freestyle, also known as HTC Kangaroo, from 1998. Other examples include Casio Cassiopeia E-10/E-11, Compaq Aero 1500/1520, Philips Nino and HP Jornada 420/430. Pocket PCs were manufactured and sold by several different companies;

1058-565: The PalmPilot. Microsoft's Handheld PCs and Palm-size PCs did not gain much success in the markets compared to Palm, with users complaining the Windows CE software were hard to use and the devices themselves were thick. On April 19, 2000, Microsoft introduced Pocket PC with a revamped interface and to better compete against the popular Palm devices. The Pocket PC was based on the all new version 3.0 of Windows CE. HP, Casio and Compaq were

1104-584: The QTek 9000 (also branded by various telecommunications companies as the Orange SPV M5000, T-mobile MDA Pro, Vodafone VPA IV, O2 Xda Exec, i-Mate JasJar, Dopod 900). A newer entrant into the Pocket PC market was its rival Palm , which sold devices like the Treo 700w/wx based on Windows Mobile 5.0 and featuring integrated telephony. Previous to this, Palm only produced PDAs running its own Palm OS (as did

1150-571: The ROM were writable, this process would corrupt data. Capcom's latest arcade board is the CPS-3 . This was resistant to emulation attempts until June 2007, when the encryption method was reverse-engineered by Andreas Naive. It is currently implemented by MAME and a variant of the CPS-2 emulator Nebula. Video game console emulators typically take ROM images as input files. ROM images are used when developing for embedded computers . Software which

1196-458: The Smartphone became Windows Mobile Standard; and the classic phone-less Pocket PC (which by now had become a niche) became Windows Mobile Classic. The Pocket PC/Windows Mobile OS was superseded by Windows Phone on February 15, 2010, when the latter was announced at Mobile World Congress that year. No existing hardware was officially supported for a Windows Phone 7 upgrade. Additionally, not

1242-441: The Windows CE.NET 4.2 operating system bundled with scaled-down versions of many popular desktop applications, including Microsoft Outlook , Internet Explorer , Word , Excel , Windows Media Player , and others. Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition added native landscape, square screen and VGA support as well as other fixes and changes to those features already present in the original release of Windows Mobile 2003. Pocket PC 2000

1288-761: The announcement of Office Mobile 6.1 with support for Office 2007 document formats (pptx, docx, xlsx); OneNote Mobile, a companion to Microsoft Office OneNote was added to most builds of WM6. In addition to the newly included programs with Office Mobile improvements were made to existing applications, such as HTML email support in Outlook Mobile. Many Windows Mobile users are enterprise users business environments were targeted. With Server Search on Microsoft Exchange 2007, Out of Office Replies with Microsoft Exchange 2007, and search ability for contacts in an Exchange Server Address Book being implemented. To aid development for programmers .NET Compact Framework v2 SP2

1334-438: The first OEMs with Pocket PC devices in 2000. The familiar desktop Windows UI from Palm-size PCs was removed in favor of a more tailored interface on Pocket PCs. According to Microsoft, the Pocket PC is "a handheld device that enables users to store and retrieve e-mail , contacts, appointments, tasks, play multimedia files , games , exchange text messages with Windows Live Messenger (formerly known as MSN Messenger), browse

1380-553: The first versions of the Palm Treo) before it was losing popularity to Pocket PC's Windows Mobile. HTC manufactured up to 80% of all phone enabled Windows Mobile devices for other companies (including HP and O2), as well as many non-phone Pocket PCs (for companies such as Dell, HP and Fujitsu Siemens) as of 2006. HTC was by now marketing Windows Mobile devices under their own brand, as well as that of Dopod. Windows Mobile 6.0 Windows Mobile 6 , formerly codenamed "Crossbow",

1426-491: The graphics ROMs to prevent them from being played in an emulator. Many thought that this would mark the end of Neo Geo emulation. However, as early as 2000, hackers found a way to decrypt and dump the ROMs successfully, making them playable once again in a Neo Geo emulator. Another company which used to employ methods of copy prevention on their arcade games was Capcom , which is known for its CPS-2 arcade board. This contained

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1472-553: The high-end models, some of which are combined with cell phones, to $ 200 for low-end models. A $ 100–$ 200 model was rumored to be released within 2004 or early 2005, although the lowest price for a just-released Pocket PC never went under $ 300. Many companies ceased to sell PDA's by 2003–2004 because of a declining market. Major companies such as Viewsonic and Toshiba stopped producing new Pocket PCs. Companies like O2 , T-Mobile and Orange were marketing Pocket PCs that have integrated mobile telephony ( smartphones ). All users have to do

1518-502: The last game release). The full decryption algorithm was cracked in 2007 by Nicola Salmoria, Andreas Naive and Charles MacDonald of the MAME development team. Another copy prevention technique used in cartridge-games was to have the game attempt to write to ROM. On an authentic cartridge this would do nothing; however, emulators would often allow the write to succeed. Pirate cartridges also often used writable chips instead of ROM. By reading

1564-410: The major manufacturers include HP (under the iPAQ and now defunct Jornada brands), Toshiba , Acer , Asus , Dell (under the now defunct Axim brand), Fujitsu Siemens , E-TEN , HTC , and ViewSonic . In mid-2003, Gateway Computers and JVC announced they would release Pocket PCs, but the projects were discontinued before a product was released. Prices in 2003 ranged from around US$ 800 for

1610-447: The officially distributed and freely downloadable development kit. Several phones running Windows Mobile 6.1 can be updated to Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 was announced on April 1, 2008, and introduced instant messaging-like texting. Windows Mobile 6.1 was built upon Windows CE 5 . Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6, internally code-named 'Crossbow', was officially released by Microsoft on February 12, 2007. Mobile 6

1656-609: The operating system generally stored user-installed applications and data in RAM , which meant that if the battery was depleted the device would lose all of its data. Windows Mobile 5.0 solved this problem by storing all user data in persistent (flash) memory, leaving the RAM to be used only for running applications, as it would be on a desktop computer. As a result, Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PCs generally had more flash memory, and less RAM, compared to earlier devices. Windows Mobile 2003 consisted of

1702-731: The original game to be played. For instance, the GameCube uses non-standard 8 cm DVD-like optical media, which for a long time prevented games stored on those discs from being copied. It was not until a security hole was found in Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II that GameCube games could be successfully copied, using the GameCube itself to read the discs. SNK also employed a method of copy prevention on their Neo Geo games, starting with The King of Fighters in 1999, which used an encryption algorithm on

1748-473: The standard file systems for optical media, ISO 9660 . Creating images from other media is often considerably easier and can often be performed with off-the-shelf hardware. For example, the creation of tape images from games stored on magnetic tapes (from, for example, the Sinclair ZX80 computer) generally involves simply playing the magnetic tape using a standard audio tape player connected to

1794-483: The value back to see whether the write succeeded, the game could tell whether it was running from an authentic cartridge. Alternatively, the game may simply attempt to overwrite critical program instructions, which if successful renders it unplayable. Some games, such as Game Boy games, also had other hardware such as memory bank controllers connected to the cartridge bus . The game would send data to this hardware by attempting to write it to specific areas of ROM; thus, if

1840-404: Was launched April 2000, and ran Windows CE 3.0 . Pocket PC 2000 featured a mobile version of Microsoft Office, a chief feature being the ability to password-protect Excel files. Pocket PC 2002 was launched October 2001, and was powered by Windows CE 3.0 , as with its predecessor. Some Pocket PC 2002 devices were also sold as "Phone Editions", which included cell phone functionality in addition to

1886-587: Was not widely sold in the United States. The HP 300LX built a palmtop computer on the Windows CE operating system. Palm-size PC (PsPC) was Microsoft's official name for Windows CE PDAs that were smaller than Handheld PCs by the lack of a physical keyboard. The class was announced in January 1998 originally as "Palm PC" which provoked a lawsuit by Palm Inc. , and the name changed soon afterwards to Palm-size PC before release. These devices were similar to

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1932-540: Was originally only released on N64 in Japan, but it was ported to GameCube and renamed Animal Crossing . Hacks may range from simple tweaks such as graphic fixes and cheats, to full-blown redesigns of the game, in effect creating an entirely new game using the original as a base. Image files derived from computer tape are known as tape images , while those derived from floppy disks and CD-ROMs (and other disk formats) are known as disk images . Images copied from optical media are also called ISO images , after one of

1978-410: Was possible via CompactFlash Type II and SD slots (supporting SDIO Now!, SDIO and MMC cards). Included is a 1,100 mAh user replaceable battery (est. 4–6.5 hours, 2200 mAh also available). Some Pocket PCs featured integrated GPS often combined with mobile phone functionality. Pocket PCs with built-in telephony differ from Windows Mobile Smartphone Edition devices in several respects, including the lack of

2024-536: Was replaced by Windows Phone in 2010 but even after versions were released based on the Windows NT kernel were ultimately unable to compete with the iPhone of 2007 and Android phones and interest waned in Pocket PCs without phones. The Pocket PC was an evolution from prior calculator-sized computers. Keystroke-programmable calculators which could do simple business and scientific applications were available by

2070-500: Was still based on Windows CE 5 and was effectively just a face-lift of Windows Mobile 5. With Mobile 6 also came Microsoft's new naming conventions and devices were no longer called Pocket PCs: devices with no phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Classic, and devices with phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Professional. Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC was based on Windows CE 5 and contained many fixes and improvements over Windows Mobile 2003. Pocket PCs running prior versions of

2116-559: Was that Mother 3 would be translated and released in Europe, which it never was. Instead, the fan website Starmen.net undertook a massive translation project and released the translated version of Mother 3 in October, 2008. The translation was praised by fans and even employees from Nintendo, Square Enix, and other industry professionals. The Japanese N64 game Dōbutsu no Mori (Animal Forest) has also been translated into English. The game

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