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| Author: | Slothpuck [ Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
Hello all  For those who don't know if anyone here is intrested in pre-ordering the pandora, the pre-orders are now open ( http://www.openpandora.org/ ) . For those who don't know the pandora's a tiny computer+console, from memory roughly the size of the Nintendo DS. But unlike all those corporate gaming devices, namely your xboxes, PSPs and wii's the pandora has been developed by an online community, and the whole software running on it is open source, i.e. linux. Go have a look! SP |
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| Author: | Dinosorceror [ Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
Sweet, I'm a sucker for those kinds of things. I have one of those GP2X handhelds that...well, like most things in my life, I played with a few times then forgot about it, but it was still cool. It was also a Linux-based handheld.
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| Author: | Slothpuck [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
I've got a GP2X as well, though I also never really used mine either. I didn't use mine not because there were problems with it, I largely didn't use it because I'm not a really major gamesplayer, and the GP2X is largely skewed for playing games. At the current time of writing however the pandora has sold 2000 out of 3000 systems in 6 hours. Probably they are all gone now x.x SP |
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| Author: | Dinosorceror [ Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
I did see they're made by the same people. Meh, the GP2X is good enough for me. My goal when I get time/inclination is to get DOSBox running on it to play Frontier.
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| Author: | Odarious [ Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
Ooh... this interests me... I might get one for when I'm at work... I'm guessing it will be able to support AIM and WLM... then I can use it... Hmm... and the internet being able to support FFX 3... hmmm... |
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| Author: | Slothpuck [ Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
Dinosorceror wrote: I did see they're made by the same people. Meh, the GP2X is good enough for me. My goal when I get time/inclination is to get DOSBox running on it to play Frontier.Oops -- my mistook I should've explained that. Some of the people that are involved are connected with the GP2X. But the pandora is not being made by Gamepark holdings. SP |
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| Author: | Slothpuck [ Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
Odarious wrote: Ooh... this interests me... I might get one for when I'm at work... I'm guessing it will be able to support AIM and WLM... then I can use it... Hmm... and the internet being able to support FFX 3... hmmm... Firefox should be doable, in fact there's a video showing it running in ubuntu on a devboard. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I47F87FeLV8 The software for AIM which I guess is still made by AOL is closed source I believe, so that won't work. WLM is in the same boat, it's closed source and propietary - that won't work either. Having said that there is an open source program which works with the AIM protocol, and I think also with the .net messenger service protocol called pidgin. It's completely open source, so all it would take is for someone to compile it, which I suspect someone will do as I am guessing several people will want this software. Plus the pandora has built in wifi, so you won't need to hunt for a USB wireless device! SP |
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| Author: | Odarious [ Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
Ooh, coolio! Yeah... I am definitely going to look into one of these... Thanks, SP! |
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| Author: | Slothpuck [ Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
I've just checked on the openpandora website, and I think today's the last day to get your order in if you want one. There will be another batch however in 2009. SP |
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| Author: | Odarious [ Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If anyone's intrested in getting one .... |
I'll wait on 2009. Car insurance and christmas gifts for 2008! |
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