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tcaudilllg
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 Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:20 am Post subject: The dream console |
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OpenPandora is finally out:
http://www.openpandora.org/
I was beginning to doubt they'd make it, but I'm glad they did.
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XMark
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:50 am Post subject: |
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Wow, a portable system where I can play all those great Linux games like... uh... like...
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tcaudilllg
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Well it's got a keyboard. Which is the big thing: you can develop with it on the go. Want to work on your Lilith's Enticement II entry on the bus? Just whip out your Pandora and go to work.
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XMark
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I was a little snarky there but it is a neat concept. I suppose a wireless internet connection would open up its possibilities a bunch.
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Jinroh
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:29 am Post subject: |
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Doesn't it have a Wireless Adapter?
| OpenPandora wrote: | | Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host |
Or were you referring to something else?
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Rainer Deyke
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:10 am Post subject: |
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It looks interesting, but:- Very limited availability.
- You have to jump through hoops to get one.
- No reliable developer information.
- No emulator available to download.
It doesn't look like I'll be able to port my games anytime soon.
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tcaudilllg
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| Rainer Deyke wrote: | It looks interesting, but:- Very limited availability.
- You have to jump through hoops to get one.
- No reliable developer information.
- No emulator available to download.
It doesn't look like I'll be able to port my games anytime soon. |
Yeah I agree. They really ought to contract and go mainstream with this thing. (or at least produce another 25k units)
In the meantime, I'll stick with my Dell Axim PDA, the low end models of which run about $40 now on Ebay. Although the control stick isn't anything to write home about (good luck pressing "up"!), if you get the snap-on keyboard you can map the controls to it some of the time.
The next grade up, which has a better keypad, is another $20 more.
But the Axim was a disappointment because Windows CE was a disappointment. It was a business device which catered to affluent people, and pretty much every decent Windows CE program you see on the 'Net today tried to get a piece of that affluent cake. Open source is almost non-existent for Windows CE even today: even the lightest BASIC compiler runs you $50.
It's a constant struggle in my soul as to whether to try to produce a decent software program for the device or not. I had hoped for a Linux version for the device, but those hopes never materialized. (it's beyond both my ken and my interest to manage it myself). Sometimes I think about trying to speed up Minimo, although I'm sure if I did that would probably not win me many friends among the Fennec people. But at the same time I feel kinda left out in that I've got a 400mhz device and still no ability to make any significant use of it. It cost my $65 bucks and I can say today with certainty that $65 seems not to have been well spent.
Maybe that's the real thing that makes me angry, in that no one seems to care about my little neck of the woods. And maybe, just maybe, it'll be that anger that drives me to deliver a wound to both Microsoft and Mozilla, as a way of expressing my contempt for their indifference to the disadvantaged. OK rant time: I'm not an iPod user, or an iPhone user. I look at the prices on those things and I think "what about the people who like me who are barely getting by, either because they can't manage any better or out of a spirit of altruism (or both)... where is the cheap version that meets my needs?" And I was talking to Doug Turner a few years ago about Minimo, which he abandoned, and he said it was dead and that Fennec was the new browser, which was only going to be for Windows Mobile 6.0, meaning that if you had a PocketPC that wasn't a phone, you were screwed.
But I guess Fennec is being funded by mobile phone companies, which don't exactly want me to be able to use older hardware. For that matter, I've used Fennec (with the WinMobile 6 emulator) and like Minimo over it because Fennec has this wide-eyed idea that onscreen buttons are somehow a bad thing. Instead, you have to drag the menu from off screen, and when you're done with it, drag it off. Not a very good feature in my opinion. So I'd just use Minimo, except it's no longer being updated (meaning it doesn't feature HTML 5) and it's slow. Really slow; as in, 45 seconds to load the preferences menu slow.
It may not be a lot of work to make it faster... probably just gotta eliminate an extraneous feature or two, but the build process is nightmarish enough that I wouldn't even know where to begin fooling with it.
Man do I want a Pandora....
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cowgod
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Rainer Deyke wrote: | It looks interesting, but:- Very limited availability.
- You have to jump through hoops to get one.
- No reliable developer information.
- No emulator available to download.
It doesn't look like I'll be able to port my games anytime soon. |
Yeah, I can't see how you're supposed to figure out how to program anything on it. It is Linux, but it's some special version of Linux with weird hardware. Who knows what will work?
And the Open Pandora doesn't seem to be available right now anyways.
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Tenshi
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like it could be pretty cool, though, if it can handle OpenGL games.
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