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May 01, 2007
Way back when we first started doing JSR82 work (eh, circa 2000), we were constantly asked:
"What applications will use this API?"
These days, I have a bit of a banter I can wheel out to answer this, plus I have something I didn't have then : data. Way back then though, there would be some mumbling, followed by :
"um....games?"
There have been a number of games using the API to good effect for person to person multiplayer Bluetooth games over the last year or two. We ourselves built a version of "Who wants to be a millionaire" as a *demo* for our JSR82 work back in 2001!! It ran on Palms and allowed one person to be the quizmaster, doling out questions wirelessly to the players, who could then answer, "phone a friend" or "ask the audience" all over Bluetooth and all in Java (via JSR82 of course). Ah, the old days :-)
Anyway, here's a register article about a new one called mobslinger.
I might try putting together a list of the best in the next week or two.
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