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Guest Gorriah

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Welcome to 2 years ago. I wonder if you've heard of the iPhone?

But nobody applied it to games yet...

What is from more than 2 years ago are the touch screens. All things have touch screen, nothing innovative on it.

I know most of people don't share my thoughs here. I simply though it would be great to have something different and would catch the attention of some people...

Wiimote like accelerometer, battery with more than 6 hours of life,... I see other proposals much less interesting and more costly.

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I'm quite looking forward to this now!

The OMAP3 appears to be quite powerful, they've got Ubuntu and Firefox running on it - not to mention Megadrive, SNES running at two or three times normal speed. There's even a full-speed jaguar emulator running Tempest 2000! Not something I thought i'd see on a handheld.

The only reservations I have are with the new photos of the case - it's very tall looking on par with the old DS only without clever ergonomics to hide it.

Call me sad if you like, I don't care! Other than the full keyboard, dual analogue sticks, USB host, dual SD card slots, high resolution screen, ability to run as linux UMPC - it's the quality of the development community that impresses me most - i've noticed a lot of progress being made in emulation comes from their community (for example the only fullspeed Megadrive emulator on PSP is a direct port of a GP2X emu).

Also, I want a hombrew device where I don't have to battle against the manufacture installing cracks, hacks and custom firmwares. Screw that! No more I say! With their own dream device, with this much power behind it, I'm really keen to see what the GPX2 community can create.

^_^

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I'll defo have one. The GP2X was impressive but the battery life was shocking. Having to spend 15 hours charging up those hi-capacity batteries just to get 3 hours out of it.

I'm looking forward to seeing some good music apps on it. LittlePiggyTracker on GP2X is superb and only let down by the fear of the battery dying without warning.

Here's hoping they manage some good N64 emulation too.

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I'd be very surprised if you couldn't. The whole thing is designed to be as moddable and open as possible.

Not that I for one moment want to give the impression that this device can't do things - I actually faint every time I attempt to think of all the multifarious things it can do - but I'd be very surprised if you could (usefully at least*) - given that the Linux version of Blitz BASIC is presumably just an x86 binary distribution, and that this device is ARM-based. From a brief search I haven't found a non-proprietary implementation of the language either, but there are plenty of similar sorts of things that will work - Processing and Pygame for example.

* insert the usual caveats pertaining to potential (insane) emulation options.

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I'm going to have to eat my proverbial hat and get one. The guys behind this have done an amazing job to put it together, especially based on such a new chip. Still have slight doubts about how well made it will be physically, but if it's halfway decent they'll have made the first really deserving homebrew handheld.

I really hope this gets more support from the western games mainstream than GamePark ever did, even to the point of hoping some people try to do commercial stuff for it.

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evilwallpaper

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They know about the battery problem, one of the many of complaints they had back from people buying a GP2X was down to the buyer not using good quality batteries. The last thing I head was the Pandora uses a good quality off the shelf standard lithium ion battery, so it is easily replaceable if anything goes wrong.

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This is just adorable. As well as being a great homebrew machine I think it's also going to be verging on the UMPC market. Frankly I'm in love with the idea of having a UMPC which runs a command line shell, so even if someone doesn't make a cut-down linux desktop for it (which they will) I'll be sorted.

This will never get any mainstream recognition though.

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I'm going to have to eat my proverbial hat and get one. The guys behind this have done an amazing job to put it together, especially based on such a new chip.

The fantastic thing about it is that it shows that hi-spec homebrew electronics isn't a far-fetched goal at all.

I'm getting one too - any excuse to own a Linux-powered ES2 device. :(

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This will never get any mainstream recognition though.

Well, not unless they market it to the mainstream it won't. It all depends on how many orders they fill and what sort of margin they can make from it to put towards a marketing budget (and indeed they would risk alienating their base community if they did that).

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