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Neat project... except for the 8 games available on it. Why develop for something with 20 users when you can develop for a (more powerful) mobile phone with sev

Neat project... except for the 8 games available on it. Why develop for something with 20 users when you can develop for a (more powerful) mobile phone with several orders of magnitude more potential customers? Pretty cool that it's open and finally (after what.. three years or so?) shipping units, but I doubt it'll ever gain steam.

wozname 16y ago
Yeah, I don't think you'd be targeting your latest masterpiece at this. Probably it will receive mostly ports of existing software.
hvs 16y ago
It will also support a lot of retrogaming.
ZeroGravitas 16y ago
It came out of the retro emulation community, so it has a couple of magnitudes more games available than that. Whether those old games appeal to you is a very good indicator for whether or not the Pandora is for you.
- jonprins 16y ago
  I spent about twenty minutes googling around trying to find a central repository/library/listing of games available/ported to it... with no luck. That would probably be important for gaining traction.
  - bane 16y ago
    http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi
  - city41 16y ago
    A community around these small handhelds such as the GP2X Wiz and the Dingoo A320 [0] has sprung up over the past couple of years. These small devices are cheap (about $100) and typically made in China somewhere. They are almost exclusively used to run emulators for classic games. The OpenPandora is basically a response that the existing solutions (such as the GP2X Wiz) just aren't that great (which is true, I have a Wiz and I really don't like it). The OpenPandora will almost exclusively be used to run emulators, a smidge of web browsing, and that's about it. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33IdcH3Wb8&t=6m36s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33IdcH3Wb8&t=6m36s
Geee 16y ago
The specs (SoC, display) are almost identical to N900 and Palm Pre, so you can play games made for those. Palm Pre games run already on the N900. You could also put some other flavor of Linux on there such as Maemo or MeeGo when it comes out.
- newman314 16y ago
  FWIW, that processor is easily overclockable to 1GHz.

wozname 16y ago

Yeah, I don't think you'd be targeting your latest masterpiece at this. Probably it will receive mostly ports of existing software.

hvs 16y ago

It will also support a lot of retrogaming.

ZeroGravitas 16y ago

It came out of the retro emulation community, so it has a couple of magnitudes more games available than that. Whether those old games appeal to you is a very good indicator for whether or not the Pandora is for you.

jonprins 16y ago
I spent about twenty minutes googling around trying to find a central repository/library/listing of games available/ported to it... with no luck. That would probably be important for gaining traction.
- bane 16y ago
  http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi
- city41 16y ago
  A community around these small handhelds such as the GP2X Wiz and the Dingoo A320 [0] has sprung up over the past couple of years. These small devices are cheap (about $100) and typically made in China somewhere. They are almost exclusively used to run emulators for classic games. The OpenPandora is basically a response that the existing solutions (such as the GP2X Wiz) just aren't that great (which is true, I have a Wiz and I really don't like it). The OpenPandora will almost exclusively be used to run emulators, a smidge of web browsing, and that's about it. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33IdcH3Wb8&t=6m36s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33IdcH3Wb8&t=6m36s

Geee 16y ago

The specs (SoC, display) are almost identical to N900 and Palm Pre, so you can play games made for those. Palm Pre games run already on the N900. You could also put some other flavor of Linux on there such as Maemo or MeeGo when it comes out.

newman314 16y ago
FWIW, that processor is easily overclockable to 1GHz.