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Am 03.07.11 10:09, schrieb Vince:
> I have a Windows tablet PC and I want to try some adventure games on it.
>
> Has anyone else tried that?
>
> I had a quick go on Broken Sword 2.5 - and while it does work, the
> clickable controls which are instantly responsive when using a mouse -
> take several hits before they are recognized when prodding with my fingers.
>
> Specifically, I'm wondering if the ScummVM games might work.
>
> I remember that DOTT had big verb buttons as well as a decent on-screen
> inventory.
>
 From the short time I had a tablet PC til I dumped it I can say, forget 
it go with an ipad and the handful of point and click adventures 
available for it instead (hidden object games you can get for that 
platform by the dozends, while there are about 20-30 real point and 
click adventures available).
The reason simply is that the control scheme of a mouse never really 
matches properly to a finger/stylus contol. As for the recognition it 
really depends on the type of display. You probably have a cheap 
resistive display, those are known to have responsiveness problems.

Kapazitive touchscreens are better in this area but need special 
styluses if they should work with pen input (finger input is another area)
But even then it comes down to the problem of having an entirely 
different input scheme.

The ipad with its finger capable capacitive touchscreen is way better in 
a way that the handful of point and click adventures available for the 
thing really are tailored to the fingerprint input and play really 
nicely. ScummVM less, I have had it running on a jailbroken ipad and 
while you could play the games with it, it was less than enjoyable given 
that they got the controls about 80% right.

I dont know what the situation with Android tablets and the ScummVM is, 
but I assume the same.

Here, Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:
>  From the short time I had a tablet PC til I dumped it I can say, forget 
> it go with an ipad and the handful of point and click adventures 
> available for it instead (hidden object games you can get for that 
> platform by the dozends, while there are about 20-30 real point and 
> click adventures available).

Can you point at some (of the latter) to recommend? The original
poster probably doesn't have an ipad, but I do.

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Am 04.07.11 18:03, schrieb Andrew Plotkin:
> Here, Werner Punz<werpu@gmx.at>  wrote:
>>    From the short time I had a tablet PC til I dumped it I can say, forget
>> it go with an ipad and the handful of point and click adventures
>> available for it instead (hidden object games you can get for that
>> platform by the dozends, while there are about 20-30 real point and
>> click adventures available).
>
> Can you point at some (of the latter) to recommend? The original
> poster probably doesn't have an ipad, but I do.
>
The two broken swords, Hector Bade of Carnage, Everything from Telltale 
(Tales of Monkey Island, one Sam and Max Ep, Puzzle Agent) if you have 
an iPad2 since the TTG engine seems to be heavy on the 3d part, Sword 
and Sworcery, Dracula 1+2+3, Last King of Africa, 1112 EP1 and EP2, 
Return to Mysterious Island, The Monkey Islands Special Edition, Seventh 
Guest, Clandestiny, Scarlett, Beneath a Steel Sky, Hamlet and if you are 
into text adventures, there is an absolutely awesome Frotz port and 
several Choose your own adventure titles released.

Sword and Sworcery is more along the lines of a relatively slow action 
adventure but nevertheless absolutely awesome and the Choose your own 
Adventure ports are more on the RPG side but nevertheless they deserve 
to be listed here.
Outside of that there are several Japo like interactive Stories one from 
EA but I forgot its name, which is a CSI like detective series with 
monthly releases.

Thats pretty much what I have discovered until now. If you are into 
hidden object games, you can get them by the ton, they seem to be 
released pretty much on a weekly basis (probably because they are easy 
to produce and sell). Since I hate those kind of games, I dont have a 
good overview.

Also there is more puzzle games than I listed before (seventh guest and 
clandestiny)