@
HtheB
, hello! I am always glad to hear enthusiasm from a community member. I do not know the viability of porting ZC to mobile devices. I do know that ZC is being prepped for open source development release. This may take time. If you are an experienced developer you may speak with one if the current devs(
@
Gleeok
or
@
Saffith
) about getting access to the repository. I do not know their requirements or they're willingness at this time.
Things I do know that have prevented such a project in the past:
Mobile devices lack the CPU power and memory to support ZC. Becoming less of an issue as devices are becoming more powerful
Allegro is not easily portable and usually requires emulation of environments it supports. This is the reason ZC 1.9 on the Wii used DosBox.
Mobile devices do not have the peripherals to properly use ZQ. Your phone has a keyboard but what about a mouse? ZQ is also not designed for touch screen input.
Also a modest ZC quest uses 6 input buttons(a b l r start map) and an 8 direction dpad excluding the possible Ex1-4 and mouse inputs. This makes it difficult for playing on touch screen devices.
All of this being said, I would love to see ZC ported to mobile devices. I personally would prefer Android as I am not a member of the Maemo or Meego communities.