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    Maintaining Battery Lifespan

    That's for NiCd and NiMH. Li-Ion is quite the opposite, fully discharging them often will reduce their lifespan.
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    Opengl Es And Sdl Together?

    I was experimenting with this very thing yesterday. SDL can't do the initialisation of OpenGL ES like it can do with full OpenGL, But you can just do the normal SDL screen initialisation, and then grab the OS native window/screen pointers from SDL and use those to initialise GLES (only about 10...
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    Opengl 2.0 Or Opengl Es 2.0

    Has there been any indication that ES 1.1 will be available though? If TI/PowerVR were going to go to the trouble of replicating fixed pipline functionality in shaders to make es 1.1 work, then they might as well provide full OpenGL support.
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    Opengl 2.0 Or Opengl Es 2.0

    The lack of fixed function pipeline in OpenGL ES 2.0 is extremely significant, it means porting old games that use the fixed pipeline like quake1/2/3 will be much more work to port.
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    Pandora's Design

    I'm quite happy with this design apart from the keyboard layout, I definatly agree that it needs a ctrl key and preferably alt and tab too. Is there any reason why there are only three rows? Making the keys 3/4 of that height and putting four rows in would give us a full layout and still leave...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    I was thinking mainly of games that might use them, there are flight sims, strategy games etc that we might be able to emulate that make use of just about every key on the keyboard, and function key combos are really awkward in that case. Also some masochists might want to try and code on the...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    I think the default web browser should be something KHTML/Webkit based, its generally the fastest rendering engine, and on an 800x480 screen we don't really need the small-screen clevers that Opera has. The full desktop version of any browser would likely be a bit slow (The OMAP is pretty fast...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    Any hybrid dpad/analogue control would almost certainly be a bad thing. A good dpad need a central pivot, without that it is easy to mash down all four directions at once when quickly switching directions. Adding an analogue mechanism into the centre removes that pivot. Of course it may be...
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    Cam2x

    I have PMs disabled, you can email me at chris@deathterrapin.plus.com. Thanks.
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    Cam2x

    QUOTE Keep in mind: all webcam traffic has to go over usb 1.1, so max 12 Mbps. This is only a couple of frames per second for 320x240 Can't you read from the camera in 8 bit YUV mode? That should get you about 20fps at 320x240. I know my old webcam can do that, it predates usb2.0 though, so...
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    Usb Host Port

    I've been pondering doing something like this myself, but I don't entirely trust my soldering skills on things that fiddly. Does anyone know what the purpose of the two caps on the +5v line is? I can understand having one maybe for voltage smoothing, but why two? And I notice this doesn't have...
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    New Ebook Reader App

    I'm really busy at work at the moment (boring web development :(), and I haven't felt like coding much at home. So I'm not going to make much progress on this for a while yet.
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    New Ebook Reader App

    Damn, if i'd seen that before I probably wouldn't even have started writing mine :D Although I prefer mine for now for the black on white colours and the full justification. I went with pre-rendered fonts on mine for speed, I assume your slow load times are coming from having to render the...
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    New Ebook Reader App

    starpause: Mirroring the controls is something I thought of before, and then I forgot, so I'll definatly be putting that in. I've download books in formats like that before. I tend to just reformat them on the pc with a regular expression in textpad, but I can see how they'd be annoying for...
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