Comments on: Pandora case prototype

By: Hinta

Hinta — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:29:50 +0000

http://community.coastalliving.com/showthread.php?p=3012#post3012 and this is right way to discussed payment systems like this one

By: bob

bob — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:26:17 +0000

cough nintendo ds cough

By: aefaradien

aefaradien — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:19:46 +0000

meh, if you don’t like it, don’t get one.

i, on the other-hand, am awaiting mine with great excitement and anticipation!

i also think it will make a great portable media player that does not suffer from being tied to a single/few file type(s). the price of 16GB SD cards is just silly now.

*squeeeeeee*

By: COwai

COwai — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:54:33 +0000

The Pandora hasn’t too many pixels.
You can run your game/app at 400×240 and let the screens hardware ‘pixel double’ it, at no performance loss.

800×480 and touch screen is good for browsing. I wouldn’t browse on something less…

By: njakol

njakol — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:26:50 +0000

@mojo, it has already been said if you look at the other comments, all the buttons are actually a qwerty keyboard, but the prototype don’t have printing on the keys yet.

By: mojo

mojo — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:26:44 +0000

I’m not sure what this thing is trying to be.

The 800×480 is silly for a portable games console of that size. Such a high resolution isn’t needed on such a small screen, and just means you end up doing a lot more processing to create the image.

The “fit more on the screen” argument doesn’t fly as the screen is too small to read 8×8 pixel text comfortably.

I’m not sure about all the buttons either. It’s not a PDA and already has a touchscreen, so it seems to have far more than any game would require.

By: njakol

njakol — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:47:13 +0000

@jjrh, yes, someone is for example porting a commercial dreamcast game (http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=45257)

caster will also probably be ported (http://openpandora.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/caster-the-game-headed-for-pandora/)

and here is a list of other closed source and/or commercial games that possibly will be ported:
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=43659

By: Chris Pearson

Chris Pearson — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:42:31 +0000

It has a Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 in it. That’s the same processor in the Palm Pre, the BeagleBoard, the OMAPZoom, etc. It’ll run Android, Poky, Ubuntu for ARM… you name it.

By: jjrh

jjrh — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:36:39 +0000

You can never have too many buttons on a portable – especially a game portable. Maybe that’s why I feel iphones are silly for 90% of traditional games.

Is it very likely we will see any commercial games?
I love to have emulators on a portable, but it would be cool to see some original games, or maybe some quality games ported(besides quake).

By: EdZ

EdZ — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:13 +0000

@sean
You young whippersnappers with your GP2X-es and your Pandoras. In MY day, we had a GP32 and liked it! And we had to add the frontlight ourselves! Uphill! Both ways!

By: stephan

stephan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:43:18 +0000

I’m with herbicide, this looks AMAZING! The combination of so many good things, I can’t wait.

By: AbsoluteZero

AbsoluteZero — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:44:23 +0000

Dude, where’d your shirt go?

By: sean

sean — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:01:19 +0000

I think we all have forgotten the gp2x, personally.

By: herbicide

herbicide — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:26:00 +0000

It’s a sub-netbook, with a (hardware-accelerated) touchscreen and gamepad controls that runs linux (and all that implies), for ~10+ hours.

*squee!*

By: stealthmonkey

stealthmonkey — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:54:00 +0000

it _has_ a touchscreen…