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Conclusion

PocketPC's are cool. It's easy to develop for them. The development tools are robust and very inexpensive. While the whole of the Win32 API isn't there, there's enough to get around. And there are a few technologies that will help you develop games that rival what you see on the desktop.

Enjoy!

PocketPC Development Resources

Compilers

Microsoft Mobile Device Developer
PocketC (a third-party C develpment environment that actually runs on the device)

Books

Inside Microsoft Windows CE
Programming Windows CE
Essential Windows CE Application Programming
Windows CE 3.0 Application Programming

Discussion Groups

An active mailing list on YahooGroups is windowsce-dev

hpc.net has a Windows CE developer's mailing-list with over 1500 members!

Microsoft has several active newsgroups for CE/PocketPC development
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ce
microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer
microsoft.public.windowsce.app.development

Hardware Sites

PocketPC.com
Compaq's iPaq
HP's Jornada
Casio's E-100 series

Games (be sure to check out your competition)

Jimmy's Windows CE Software
www.pocketgamer.org
ZIOSoft