Well, that one didn't turn out so good, but I 've got *very* high hopes for this. Sure it's ugly as sin, has been considered vaporware since the beginning of development over two years ago, and has little to no hype outside the hardcore pocket-gaming enthusiast, but I'm like a goddam kid two weeks before christmas thinking about this little bad boy. Behold, the open pandora. I have a pre-order for the first batch, which they SWEAR will be shipping in October. I'm not holding my breath, but it seems like the project is finally on track.
Specs
* ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours pressure-sensitive capacative 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
So what does it do? a better question is what doesn't it do. Basically a netbook PC designed with the emulating gamer / hacker in mind, it's like a GP2X on steroids. With more RAM and a faster processor than the PSP, it can emulate anything from the PS1 and below, and there are rumors of a PSP game emulator in the works, with N64 support confirmed. It runs full DOSBOX for SCUMM games etc, and with a touchscreen, qwerty keyboard and finally a screen big enough to see that tiny text, makes for an amazing handheld with my intended use as a mobile Lucasarts adventure game center. oh yeah, it also runs networked Quake 3 Arena at 60FPS
On top of that, expect to see the full gamut of user-developed apps like synth trackers, drawing pads, animation (It can run Blender!), full firefox 3 support for web browsing, flash games, original apps, productivity suites, etc. It's a little pricey, but not when you consider it it's also a PMP with a bigass screen (bigger and brighter than psp) and support for all major video formats, with up to 128 GB in storage for music and videos. That's a better deal than an ipod touch, and it's way less, with more features. I will be posting a full report the instant I get my sweaty, greasy hands on it. Right after I come all over the screen from joy
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Is that Denise Milani? Hawt.
That think is hot. I might look into it.
How much could one expect to pay for such a device? Because, you know... DO FUCKING WANT!
dang that thing still isn't out?
and wtf a non-nonsensical BZ blog.
It's $330, but I think the first 4000 are already sold out. check out the website http://openpandora.org/ and there's an email address where you can ask about pre-orders. I had a GP2X that I fucking loved, despite the 1.5 hours of battery life and sub-par SNES emu (read: 7fps), and I'm thinking this could be what the GP2X was attempting.
sadistic - I never really gave a shit about anything, before now.
now I'm consumed with desire for your butt.
same, and I'm consumed with playing hentai games
Did you have the GP2X Wiz or one of the eariler models? Because the former has ironed things out quite a bit (full 60fps for SNES, Genesis and CPS if you overclock it, and damn near close even with out it + quality battery life.) But still, if the Pandora is all it's cracked up to be it it will blow it out of the water :o (Hell, N64 Emulation by itself is really fucking impressive.) I still ended up going with the Wiz ($300+ is a little out of my price range, especially if I'm not sure when I'm even getting one,) but I'd LOVE to hear how it is! The more I read about it the more in awe I am, and once they start selling them more openly, I may very find myself picking one up :)
did somebody just turn the background of my blog pink? because I didn't. Although I think it's faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous
never mind, I'm tripping.
Hot Damn! I wasn't aware you guys were into this as well. Man, I'd love to get my dirty, greasy, sticky hands on it too.
So you can make normal blogs? I am impressed. And I doubt that thing will work, if it does I'll be the second person in line...
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There's a bug that change your sidebar color to the last commenter sidebar...
I don't think it looks ugly. I'm interested in it but not for 330 bucks (meaning 6000000 bucks in Europe).
$330 actually seems kind of cheap IMO. I'm definitely interested in snagging one of these babies. Thanks for opening my eyes to this work of art BZ.