This is a post to explore community support for a mobile game. If you have any comments ideas our suggestions please post them here.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the foldit team or any of its supporters I would just like to see a foldit Mobile game
At http://fold.it/portal/node/990587#comment-16405 beta-helix said "the main roadblock with iPhones/iPad/iPod Touches is compiling Rosetta on those platforms. If anyone is able to get Rosetta compiled on any of those, then we can start thinking of getting Foldit working there as well."
This seems like a good fit for Google philanthropic arm to build a android version? What do you think?
Onlive seem to be able to stream reasonably compute intensive games and even MS Office to iPads - distance from the streaming server is probably an issue. Just a thought :)
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As a tablet user. Motorola X-board, I would love to have a version available to use on my tablet. I hope it becomes available as I seem to use my tablet for everything online but Fold-it.
I would love to have a mobile version of foldit, I have much more time with my tablet than on my PC. I think a mobile version would also open up to a new audience of people.
Mobile CPUs are 10 if not 100 times slower than even mediocre desktops. So it has to be some sort of remote solution, or a hybrid, where you do the manual manipulations on the mobile device but run the scripts on a desktop or sever.
If we can get FoldIt mobile, then a lot more people would be exposed to FoldIt… it'll be better… science would profit and benefit… that is, if we have more people playing FoldIt!
there will be NO mobile version, unless s1 will compile Rosetta code to mobile diveces.
But looking how much resources Foldit need on desktop anything larger than 5 residues is totally unplayable on any current mobile device.