Would be neat to run a game on it. 
e.g. http://www.logicgamesonline.com/nurikabe/
Solver: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Nurikabe



----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Patrick Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, September 1, 2008 9:25
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] J on the iPhone?
To: General forum <[email protected]>

> Joey,
> 
>    Very interesting. I have an older iPhone (but with 
> the new 2.0.1
> software) which I've opened up using the "PwnageTool" -- a slightly
> scary process. But it does allow you to run unix tools on your iPhone,
> and ssh into it from your Mac via Wi-Fi, use scp to bypass 
> iTunes and
> download arbitrary stuff to your phone, and also run some applications
> not yet on iTunes, like MxTube so you can save YouTube clips locally.
>    I added pTerm but haven't used it yet -- but iSSH 
> looks like it
> may be better. So this should allow, for example, me to run J in 
> the 
> console mode by logging into my University desktop. But the really
> great breakthrough will be a way to run jwd. I'd really love to have
> that available.
>                                                Patrick
> 
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Joey K Tuttle wrote:
> 
> > I meant to add to my remarks that this whole project took less 
> than half an 
> > hour when I became bored with the conversation in a coffee 
> shop... So the $5 
> > application was selected, downloaded, configured (for 3 
> systems), and used 
> > with minimal effort.
> >
> > In landscape, the tiny font only displays 80 columns, but line 
> wrap is 
> > handled very nicely so longer lines work out OK. Also, the 
> terminal (VT100 
> > including vi support) has a buffer to remember a few screens 
> of the session. 
> > That coupled with .jhistory makes it easy to develop (fix bugs 
> in) a line of 
> > j.
> >
> > I think Eric's point about a personal web server is very good 
> too, and easy 
> > to do in the same environment that provides jconsole - well, 
> most such 
> > places... One of my jconsole systems is in a shell account on 
> a machine 
> > provided by my DSL supplier - I don't have permission to 
> configure a web 
> > server there, but jconsole is very handy.
> >
> > If anyone is interested, the application I bought is from
> >
> >  http://www.zinger-soft.com/
> >
> > and is published through iTunes. The author maintains a Google 
> discussion 
> > group which may have some good discussions (although I haven't 
> yet explored 
> > them...)
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