i have recently emailed the makers of alchemy classic to see if it could be released for n900. They have said that it is in progress and will be released in the near future, so for all those who enjoy this game but have to switch o/s to play it NOT LONG NOW. HOORAY


On Thu, 26 May 2011, 15:30:14 BST, NIAsoft <contact@nia-soft.com> wrote:

> Hi Tonny,
> Sorry for delay. We are working hard on Alchemy Classic new version's,
> and haven't much time to monitor inbox in good time. The Alchemy Classic
> for N900 is on quality assurance tests in Ovi Store. And I think that it
> should be available soon. The MeeGo version already available and can be
> downloaded from Intel AppUp Center for MeeGo. Please feel free to
> contact us and tell what you think about the release. Thank* for your
> interest of our game.
>
> Best Regards,
> Nikolai Cholakov
> NIAsoft Team

Either the dev did not know what an N900 is or belived it was a new WP7 Nokia, or you got the protocol answer, where everyone matters and the game will be ported to the Apple Newton too. I don't think a dev with a right mind would pick up the Maemo platform for so few users, when even the successor platform is on its last leg.

As proved by preenv the porting of some games is not so hard, so why not get a few thousand more users (game hungry maybe too) with a day or two of coding...
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Wong Amat Beach

Well, it is good news, if it is true.

Preenv is possible because the similarities of WebOS and Maemo Linux platforms. Android and iOS are completely different.
Still, porting it to Maemo could be easy enough, but if you sell something, you have to provide support for it too (like someone asks the dev, why wont the app run on his N900 when he removed and purged python), or you can make it freeware, but that is quite unrewarding for those few hundred, maybe thousand people they can get this way. I don't say I wouldn't like it, I just say you should take that letter with a grain of salt, like Nokia announcing Flash 10.2 for N900.

A game is for sure easier to port than a whole framework (that is the case with flash). And maybe the fact that rovio published Maemo angry birds before Android or Symbian edition is a hint to how difficult is to port iOS apps to maemo is.
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ASIANSEXSLAVE

this is my email to and from dev's make of it what you will


On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, 07:39:43 BST, NIAsoft <contact@nia-soft.com> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
> Soon the Alchemy Classic will be available on Maemo 5. The work in
> progress.
>
> Thank you for feedback!
>
> Best Regards,
> Nikolay Cholakov
> NIAsoft Team
> ________________________________
> От:
> Отправлено: 23 апреля 2011 г. 4:19
> Кому: NIAsoft
> Тема: Alchemy classic for maemo5
>
>
> Hi i don't know weather it would be too time consuming but know there
> are many many people who would love to see alchemy classic ported to
> maemo 5 to be played on nokia n900. A game like this would be very well
> recieved by the maemo community. i hope you will give it some thought.
>


EDIT: latest news from dev's

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, 21:17:23 BST, NIAsoft <contact@nia-soft.com> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
> Thank you for getting back to me.
>
> I think that the Maemo 5 and MeeGo ports of the Alchemy Classic game
> will be available on first half of May 2011. Currently this will be the
> same free version (110 elements). Thank you for your appreciation, we
> doing our best.
>
> Best Regards,
> Nikolay Cholakov,
> NIAsoft Team

so, any news about that?

where can i get alchemy for my n900????
all other os have this game except maemo?

Yep, that is the case. Also no new Angry Birds package since version 4, no Cut the rope, no Fruit Ninja, ans so on. On the other hand you can install NITDroid and have all the games...