Looking for a lightweight SRD

[Zappo]

Hi everyone! I've decided to learn embedded devices programming, and to have something to practice on I've bought a new cellphone. The Nokia 6630 has almost anything you could ask, lacking only infrared and a thermometer (the first being handy to connect wireless to my bluetooth-lacking laptop, and the second being something my old cellphone had and that I wanted to use to make the thing detect whether it was in a pocket or not and choose between vibration or tone accordingly... but I digress).

Among other things, it reads DOC and HTML. So I want to have D&D's rules on it. It'd be a bit slower to consult than a book, but the ability to carry it in a pocket is great. I'll try to make a Java diceroller afterwards.

The problem is that the cellphone, understandably, doesn't have much in the RAM and CPU departments. Specifically, it chokes on big DOCs and even on big HTMLs, taking far too much time to open them and being unable to search them. The SRD RTFs are too big, and many of Sovelior's HTMLs are too big as well.

So I'm looking for a SRD version that is very light. Ideally, it should be an HTML with extremely simple formatting but good linking, and the huge sections (spell listings and descriptions, monster listings, magic items...) should be divided in smaller files. Anyone has something similar?

 

[XCorvis]

I'd start with Andargor's SRD. http://www.andargor.com/
He's got a nice XML version, chopped up into many small files.

 

[Zappo]

That's still bigger than Sovelior's. Maybe I should start from a plain text and just add hyperlinks.

 

[silvermane]

How big can you accept? The text alone is over 3 MB uncompressed.

 

[BeerSkunk]

I've put together a Pocket SRD for Pocket PCs, but it would work equally well on a cell phone since it's just HTML files. All of the files are broken up into small (~30 KB) files, with a few exception. Some files that contain a lot of tables are simply not possible to break into small units using HTML, but those are the exception.

I have the Pocket SRD available as a free install package for Pocket PCs and Pocket PC based cell phones, but that won't work for your Nokia. So, I'll repackage the HTML files together in a ZIP archive and get them posted soon.

 

[XCorvis]

Can you share them with me too? I'd be interested in a version for my Palm, and that sounds like a good place to start.

 

[BeerSkunk]

I will make the files publicly available on my web site soon, until then I'll post a direct link to them here. These are bare bones HTML files, so they should work equally well on any hand held device.

Download Pocket SRD

Enjoy!

 

[Zappo]

The cellphone has more than enough storage space; the issue is with the size of a single page. BeerSkunk's should work very well! Thank you, I'm uploading them to the phone now.

 

[Dimwhit]

Can you share them with me too? I'd be interested in a version for my Palm, and that sounds like a good place to start.

I'm looking for something good for my Palm, too. Let me know if you come up with something good.

I'm going to try these html files BeerSkunk posted and see how that goes.

 

[Zappo]

They work pretty good. I've just removed the background for increased readability on my phone. I need a dice roller now, but I'll try to do that myself, for learning.