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BTW there is J2ME Loader, a free j2me emulator for android devices available through PlayStore, it plays very nice (you can customize your keys too). One I noticed is j2me games often don't play music on the background and just resorts to sporadic sounds, any reason for that?
The first thing I ever wrote that other people used was a j2me app freshman year in college. It was a power hour app that played a random simpsons .wav every minute. I was a pretty poor CS student, in hindsight I'm surprised I got it to work.
Brings back memories but I can't say they are good. It was so limited that it was mostly frustration.
Would interesting to hear about J2ME gold rush. Any success (or fail) stories?
Wow this brings back a lot. I did J2ME at Macrospace/Glu, Masabi, Javaground and EA, and at one point near the end was simultaneously responsible for 128k jars of Tetris and 4GB apk + obb for Real Racing because that is how rapidly the field exploded. Absolute madness. J2ME gets a lot of stick, but modern mobile has actually recreated almost all the same problems. The big one for apps was the out of the box UI compon…
Wow this brings back a lot. I did J2ME at Macrospace/Glu, Masabi, Javaground and EA, and at one point near the end was simultaneously responsible for 128k jars of Tetris and 4GB apk + obb for Real Racing because that is how rapidly the field exploded. Absolute madness. J2ME gets a lot of stick, but modern mobile has actually recreated almost all the same problems. The big one for apps was the out of the box UI compon…
Hard to overstate how expensive data was! This was also before widespread wifi.
If you want a look at the way the world worked in 2005, check this out: https://www.consumer-action.org/news/articles/2005_interstat...
Topics included:
- calling cards
- voip
- collect calls!
- international rates