Over at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, aJile Systems has shown its newly developed Game Boy Advance Java development kit to the world.
The firm, which was founded in 1999 by four senior technologists from Rockwell Collins, Sun Microsystems, Integrated Device Technology and Centaur Technologies, is the first to bring Java to the GBA.
Using Sun’s latest MIDP 2.0 technology, the very latest in Java couture, the kit is called JAMiD, and should enable Java programmers around the world access to the Nintendo portable.
“aJile firmly believes that Java will be at the heart of mobile gaming, entertainment and interactive commerce. And we believe that mobile handsets, game players and computing devices should all have access to a common source for MIDP games," said aJile Vice President of Marketing Danh Le Ngoc. "For the first time, aJile's JAMiD game development kit links the huge Java development community with the enormous Game Boy user community. We expect that consumer products based on our JAMiD cartridge will bring wireless and peer-to-peer gaming and entertainment to the millions-strong stand-alone game player market."
The JAMiD dev kit will include a Java game cartridge that plugs into the cartridge slot on the GBA, which includes aJile’s direct execution aJ-100 Java microprocessor, complete with MP3 player.
The kit will be available from April, costing around £160.
The firm, which was founded in 1999 by four senior technologists from Rockwell Collins, Sun Microsystems, Integrated Device Technology and Centaur Technologies, is the first to bring Java to the GBA.
Using Sun’s latest MIDP 2.0 technology, the very latest in Java couture, the kit is called JAMiD, and should enable Java programmers around the world access to the Nintendo portable.
“aJile firmly believes that Java will be at the heart of mobile gaming, entertainment and interactive commerce. And we believe that mobile handsets, game players and computing devices should all have access to a common source for MIDP games," said aJile Vice President of Marketing Danh Le Ngoc. "For the first time, aJile's JAMiD game development kit links the huge Java development community with the enormous Game Boy user community. We expect that consumer products based on our JAMiD cartridge will bring wireless and peer-to-peer gaming and entertainment to the millions-strong stand-alone game player market."
The JAMiD dev kit will include a Java game cartridge that plugs into the cartridge slot on the GBA, which includes aJile’s direct execution aJ-100 Java microprocessor, complete with MP3 player.
The kit will be available from April, costing around £160.
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