I did quick and dirty ports of Descent 1 and Descent 2 for OS2008 (not tested with the older OSes). Only did a modification to enable the hardware pixel doubling and added a 400x240 resolution for it (use that for the best performance). Didn't do remapping of the default keys, instead i created a pilot with already remapped keys, tune it to your best satisfaction (right now the stylus is used for aiming, but maybe the mouse speed is slow). A virtual keyboard is needed for the saved games.

Attaching a screenshot (a very bad one


Okay, to the point:

Running Descent 1:
Install the deb from here: http://www.bundyo.org/maemo/d1x-rebirth/.
Copy these files in /usr/share/games/d1x-rebirth/ (works only with the full version):

Running Descent 2:
Install the deb from here: http://www.bundyo.org/maemo/d2x-rebirth/.
Copy these files in /usr/share/games/d1x-rebirth/ (tested only with the full version but probably works with the demo):

WARNING: D2X is case-sensitive! All files should be lower case.

WARNING: In both games if you start them not using the included USER profile, they start in 640x480 and will be slow. Also the keys have default mapping and you should update them.

You can symlink these directories to somewhere on a card if you want to, there won't be custom builds for other directories.

EDIT: Remapped the menu key to Save. Executable updated. If someone has ideas for key mapping - let me know.

EDIT: Created a deb file with menu item, icon and dbus service (not that you can alt-tab from the game yet Rewrote the instructions.

EDIT: Added Descent 2, removed the bigger resolutions from Descent 1.

That's all folks, have fun.