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Not spam. Due to the nature of open-source gaming, the topic contains discussions of emulator/roms
Latest OS video:
Some of you may have heard of a little open source handheld called GP2x. This thing is entirely open source, with hundreds of homebrew applications for it. But the best part is the emulators, and the ability to have hundreds of legally backed up ROMS in the palm of your hand. It even emulates PSX at fullspeed for most games. Most people ask "Why not get the PSP?" First of all, the PSP is not an open source handheld, and there is a small homebrew community, but they don't get the constant update treatments the GP2x does. The GP2x scene in a sense, is for the "real" homebrew hackers . I enjoy having entire libraries of MAME, SNES, NES, etc. in my palm. It also plays a wide variety of media files.
A small group of people have decided to build a better machine built on the idea of the GP2x. Thus, the Pandora was born. It's built on hundreds of feedback from the community, and built with "open source" in mind. Apparently, it's the most powerful handheld system that exists(not counting UMPC). It's due to ship very soon, and I encourage anyone interested in open source hacking, or gaming on the go, to check out the GP2x and the Pandora.
FAQ: http://pandorawiki.org/FAQ Read this.
Full specs: http://pandorawiki.org/Pandora
A DosBox port exists, so technically you can play any 486-era DOS games. P133 games might be possible with work. Doom 3 is also speculated to work at fullspeed when ported. Along with every emulators under the Sun.
An old email/info:
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Thank you all for signing up to the openPandora.org newsletter, this project has been going
on for an amazing and exhausting 2 years and is finally reaching the launch. It's been a very
long time - but with your help we have produced the most powerful, cutting edge handheld in
the world:
* ARM Cortex-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3inch 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
* Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
* Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* Around 10+ Hours battery life
* GUI: gMenu, various X based desktops, Ubuntu etc. or make your own.
If you have not had the chance to see some of the videos we have posted, we have included
some of the highlights here, oh, and we will be posting more videos before the preorder date.
Pandora Prototype overview (Emus, Quake etc.):
Ubuntu on the OMAP3 :
Amiga Emulator on a Pandora prototype:
The custom made analogue controller:
Pandora devboard arcade compilation:
OMAP3 Graphics demo:
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Latest OS video:
Some of you may have heard of a little open source handheld called GP2x. This thing is entirely open source, with hundreds of homebrew applications for it. But the best part is the emulators, and the ability to have hundreds of legally backed up ROMS in the palm of your hand. It even emulates PSX at fullspeed for most games. Most people ask "Why not get the PSP?" First of all, the PSP is not an open source handheld, and there is a small homebrew community, but they don't get the constant update treatments the GP2x does. The GP2x scene in a sense, is for the "real" homebrew hackers . I enjoy having entire libraries of MAME, SNES, NES, etc. in my palm. It also plays a wide variety of media files.
A small group of people have decided to build a better machine built on the idea of the GP2x. Thus, the Pandora was born. It's built on hundreds of feedback from the community, and built with "open source" in mind. Apparently, it's the most powerful handheld system that exists(not counting UMPC). It's due to ship very soon, and I encourage anyone interested in open source hacking, or gaming on the go, to check out the GP2x and the Pandora.
FAQ: http://pandorawiki.org/FAQ Read this.
Full specs: http://pandorawiki.org/Pandora
A DosBox port exists, so technically you can play any 486-era DOS games. P133 games might be possible with work. Doom 3 is also speculated to work at fullspeed when ported. Along with every emulators under the Sun.
An old email/info:
==========================================
Thank you all for signing up to the openPandora.org newsletter, this project has been going
on for an amazing and exhausting 2 years and is finally reaching the launch. It's been a very
long time - but with your help we have produced the most powerful, cutting edge handheld in
the world:
* ARM Cortex-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3inch 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
* Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
* Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* Around 10+ Hours battery life
* GUI: gMenu, various X based desktops, Ubuntu etc. or make your own.
If you have not had the chance to see some of the videos we have posted, we have included
some of the highlights here, oh, and we will be posting more videos before the preorder date.
Pandora Prototype overview (Emus, Quake etc.):
Ubuntu on the OMAP3 :
Amiga Emulator on a Pandora prototype:
The custom made analogue controller:
Pandora devboard arcade compilation:
OMAP3 Graphics demo:
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