A central goal of Pandora is gaming. The controls make this evident. Regardless of feasibility at this point in time, I think it's good for the devs to know how many fans of retro PC gaming we have around here.
Done for the week, have at it. Try not to trash the thread for no reason; I think...
Do not confuse "ARM Linux" with "the linux Pandora will running." Google seems to have gone out of their way to break compatibility with Android. Granted, there are ways around that. I just recently found out you can get GNU's C library and thus get most non-GUI programs running, which is...
Please stay on topic. This discussion is about Windows gaming on gaming-centric pocket devices, specifically Pandora. Please do not discuss x86 as a general platform, or try to bring up irrelevant alternatives. The devices Kekerot mentions do not have d-pads or analog nubs. I cannot fathom...
Let's not discuss other benefits or drawbacks of the x86 platform here. Please direct all such comments to this thread: http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=46751 (UBB linking broken at present.)
Quick explanation of how this works: QEMU is an emulator. It might be able to run Windows...
Someone who compares wine to gamecube emulation is SHOCKINGLY ignorant, sorry.
Heating can be mitigated with proper design, using insulating materials where it is held. It would actually be far more pleasant than trying to use a laptop or netbook on your lap.
I HATE x86. I hate the heat and...
Astonishing.
Are you aware that Windows has been around for just a *wee* bit longer than the PS2?
Wanting to play a 2d Windows 95 game (like, say, Lode Runner Online) is a far cry from emulating the previous generation of consoles.
Also, technically speaking Wine is not an emulator. It's a...
Care to drop the glibness and explain what's so funny about that? Are you anti-PC gaming? I hate to sound elitist, but most modern console games I've seen are pale imitations of their PC ancestors.
EDIT: With the obvious exception of platformers and party games.
Given all the spastic and ignorant vitriol, how about I abandon all arguments except this one:
I want wine. I want to play old Windows games, and I will accept halved battery life as a penalty (because really, 5 hours is more than enough, and will be possible with x86 in the very near future.)...
So ok, now that the knee-jerk responses have died down slightly, some parting thoughts:
Some of you seem happy with the Pandora being a PDA that does games. That's fine I guess, but I am hoping for more. We've had neat internet-capable Linux PDAs at the ~$300 price point for almost three...
Ok, so to clarify:
EVENTUALLY Pandora needs to go x86. Eventually means "not right now", because the embedded x86 blitz is just beginning. I am saying, if you have been paying attention, if you have struggled HARD and tweaked for weeks on end with Linux compatible ARM devices (e.g. Zaurus)...
It needs to be brought up again and again. Pandora is not billing itself as the next Game Boy. It's billing itself as a gaming system that doubles as an UMPC. Being able to view youtube clips is a necessary prerequisite for any device claiming to be a laptop or netbook substitute.
In the name...
If ARM is so darned "forwards", then will you please help me make my Zaurus C1000 awesome like it should be? I've been waiting for three years now. Been through five distinct projects, all of which utterly failed to produce anything approaching x86 usability.
ARM is a great architecture...
See "reasonably priced". Under $500 will be perfectly doable, especially once competition from Via and AMD heats things up.
If Pandora 2.0 is unwilling to go there, I guarantee you someone else will.
We've had open source hacker ARMs for a long time now. I myself have fiddled around with Zauruses extensively. For years now. At the end of the day, they just can't do 10% of what a netbook can do. Throw an x86 in them and yeah you would lose a lot of battery time, but they could probably do...
Let it be known that I think ARM is a great platform. Ideally, everything would be run on interchangeable virtual machines and it wouldn't matter what chip you use. Sadly, this is not the case.
I do not think that the power saving advantages of ARM beat out the ability of x86 to easily run...
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