Dimacus
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Well i found out about the GP2X when one of my friends said to me " You remember that console you where thingking of buying some time ago, Gp32?".
He had foundout about it while searching for SDL related sites.
I belive it's hard to do a commercial that makes regular users want to buy it and still appeal to developers.
Basicly whenever i have told people that you can make your own games, or that it runs linux as it's OS, they sort it into the "Geekthing/no good games/do not want" category.
The best way to appeal to both is to make the dev-appealing-bits subtile, like
"The linux core enables this device to be your very own media player, playing all your favorite format's, sutch as, mp3, ogg, avi, mpeg, divx and xvid !
And if the (inches here) isn't enugh, you can connect it to the tv using it's excelent tv-out to watching movies or play games".
The regular user will probably not even notice "linux" in that sentice, while most developers will.
He had foundout about it while searching for SDL related sites.
I belive it's hard to do a commercial that makes regular users want to buy it and still appeal to developers.
Basicly whenever i have told people that you can make your own games, or that it runs linux as it's OS, they sort it into the "Geekthing/no good games/do not want" category.
The best way to appeal to both is to make the dev-appealing-bits subtile, like
"The linux core enables this device to be your very own media player, playing all your favorite format's, sutch as, mp3, ogg, avi, mpeg, divx and xvid !
And if the (inches here) isn't enugh, you can connect it to the tv using it's excelent tv-out to watching movies or play games".
The regular user will probably not even notice "linux" in that sentice, while most developers will.