Symbian-Developers

Hello, I'm not an active S80/S90 user. However I've found one version of this game for Series 80, could you try it? It's a bit bigger than the one you've provided above.
http://wunderwungiel.pl/Temp/v-rally.sis

Hello, thank you for your sharing. I couldn't test it because I don't have an S80 device in my hand. But I checked the sis file. The file you shared is a more recent version of the file I added. If you allow me, I would like to add this to the article.

V-Rally games for Symbian, V-Rally 97 (Demo) & V-Rally: Championship Edition (Full)

V-Rally 97 (UIQ - 2002)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Rally_(video_game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0swYRrIxT9s


V-Rally: Championship Edition (Eikon/S80 - 1999)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA3K63XGa2U


I hope you like it.

UIQ:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTDAzjI6-Zb9owqbpE39ZKLcxk8Aqsdc/view?usp=sharing

EswanUIQ a Wonderswan emulator. WonderSwan is a handheld console made by Bandai. It is only available in Japan. I couldn't test it because I don't have a UIQv2 device

Platform : Symbian 7.0 (UIQv2)
Version : 0.0.4

https://web.archive.org/web/20051121071619/http://my-symbian.com/uiq/applications/applications.php?faq=7&fldAuto=901

Hello, i want to get a discord client for my Nokia 701 Symbian Belle FP2.
I already found one which is broken (only receives messages, doesnt store them, send feature broken):
https://github.com/ruslang02/discord-symbian

Could someone take a look and maybe fix it?

Best regards,
Nokia lover Spekas

Since the existing forum thread you also posted to is dead, I'll reply here

The first roadblock is having any coding/programming experience at all anywhere. If you have some, then we can move past that. But you have said "This is my first ever development project." so I assume you don't. But let's pretend you do.

Really, your best bet would be to obtain some of the development tools from the n8delight blog, and just trying to write code with it. Of course, these development tools are very outdated and may not work in a modern operating system, so if that is the case, it would be good idea to create a Windows 7 (32-bit) virtual machine and installing the tools in that (I recommend VMware if you are on Windows).

As for documentations, you can find them over at The Web Archive of the Nokia Developer website


Other than that, you could find some open source Symbian apps, examine code and learn.

I personally don't have much experience with Symbian related development as I've been focusing on non-mobile stuff all my dev carrier, so I can't help with specifics sadly. But I hope I pointed you in the right direction.

That's the good part, now I'll explain why this is a lost cause.

This is a lost cause for the simple reason that the hardware is underpowered for today's standards and the web has evolved a lot since the last time the Qt webview engine was updated, so forget about webviews. Technically you could write your own webview engine if you need it, but with underpowered hardware, you probably won't get far.

The operating system is closed source and 10 years out of date, which means, there are without doubt lots of unpatched vulnerabilities discovered and sold by security researchers, and anyone somewhat competent can purchase and make use of them whenever they want. If you have to take one thing away form this post, take this one. An unpatched operating system can never be used a daily driver, it's not secure enough.

Only proceed if you want to put all the effort as a proof of concept.

First off, thank you for the resources.
Second, I don't care this is a lost cause. I don't do this for money or attention or even usefulness really. I do this because I love Symbian and its community. You say the web has evolved too much, but yet things like Kutegram, a client for a very modern instant messenger(!) are there and evolving quite rapidly. I think this only proves that Symbian definetly has enough power and resources to support modern stuff, even if making these apps takes time. However I have no idea about programming, so this is just saying what I've seen. And also, I'm not planning super-fast mega-fancy modern-looking UIs, or to throw in all the possible features. Kutegram only has text messages at the moment, but that brings soooooooooooooooooo much functionality back to Symbian. If with my micro-blogging service client you can't post images or videos, but there's the possibility to post text, I'm already bringing back the #1 feature of micro-blogging.
Third, Symbian was actually open-source for a while. From February 2010 to April or late 2011, can't remember the end date, Symbian's source code was accessible for everyone. This means that most likely S60v3, S60v5 and Symbian^3 are open-source.
And fourth, I agree with Max. My grandma used to say she lived at a home with doors, but that they never closed them, and this was in a big village(decades and decades ago, yes). In the middle of nowhere, no one is going to find you. If it is a lost cause to develop for Symbian, why isn't it a lost cause trying to break Symbian to get users' data? Like if it were of any use anyway. 99% of Symbian devices are probably either broken or saved in a box somewhere at people's houses, and out of the 1% left, half of them are probably used for testing purposes, no SIM cards or personal data inside. And the rest have much less data than, say, a regular Android smartphone because email is dead, IM is dead, browser is dead and everything is dead. No important threats.

And I'd like to add a sidenote here. I used and loved Windows Phone for months, but left the OS because I switched to FOSS. I'm developing these apps for Symbian due to the above mentioned reason that lots of versions are FOSS as well(not 100%, I know, I know). But I'm guessing it is easier to develop for Windows Phone with tools like VS, and maybe there's more modern technologies too. As a personal advice, and being this my first development project, do you guys think it would be better to start my development journey on Windows Phone since it's easier? Thanks in advance.