Pandora; open source handheld console II

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Op woensdag 17 februari 2010 10:28 schreef Ixnay het volgende:

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Ziet er uit alsof het met AutoCAD getekend is.

Maar de Pandora wordt een flop denk ik.

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Op woensdag 17 februari 2010 14:58 schreef Blinker het volgende:
Waar vind je een handheld met een KDE interface

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Op woensdag 17 februari 2010 14:28 schreef __Saviour__ het volgende:
pandora is natuurlijk nooit bedoeld als ware concurrent voor ds en psp bijvoorbeeld.
Het is gewoon een groot hobbyprojectje van een groep.

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Yeah i did. Haven't had much time to play with it and get it running properly (blame work). I don't have much to add beyond Notaz/DaveC/Zodttd/Skeezix, but my impressions so far are:

* The controls are fantastic, there's no handheld device i know of that rivals this. The Nubs are really nice, its the first thing everyone wants to touch.
* It has a very small footprint, makes the screen looks really large. It is quite thick compared to DS / PSP but i actually find it more comfortable (easier to grip).
* Everything is really solid. The plastic is very rigid and feels thick, i can see this thing being very durable.
* The Battery cover design is nifty, works really well.
* Even though this is just a prototype it has quite decent build quality, the only obvious flaw is the lid sits about 1mm lower on one side.
* The matte black suits it very well, there's too much glossy crap around nowdays.


I'll show some pictures of mupen64 running or something when i get a chance.

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GAMES:
Gianas Return
Abuse
Battle for Wesnoth
BlobWars
Descent 1
Descent 2
Doom
FHeroes Port (Heroes Of Might And Magic 2)
FreeCiv 2.1.9
Hexen II
OpenLiero
OpenTyrian
Pandora Panic!
Powermanga
Quake 1
Quake 2
Quake 3
Reminiscence (flashback)
SuperTux 1
SuperTux 2
Tecnoballz
The Mana World
Ur-Quan Masters
Wolf4SDL

(With the exception of PandoraPanic, everything in that list has been ported by Pickle & Cpasjuste. What an effort - and it's not the whole list.)


EMULATORS:
DosBox
Mupen64plus (big maybe)
PAtari
PicoDrive
PSMS
PSnes
PSX4all (medium sized maybe)
ScummVM
UAE4all
VICE

Pandora running Mupen64plus + Ocarina of Time / Sin and Punishment

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Well i gots me a prototype Pandora, I don't have much to add beyond what the others have said (and i've already mentioned most of these in another thread).... but here's my impressions:

* Everything feels really sturdy. There is little to no flex.
* It weighs a bit more than your average handheld, i like this.
* The battery cover design is nifty.
* The controls are really nice. Especially the nubs and dpad.
* The prototype can only overclock stable to ~800Mhz, maybe we shouldn't expect the 850 - 900 I got with the devboard.
* My one has a floppy hinge, i assume its one of the ones that's been stress tested. The hinge will stay in position as long as its >45 degrees from horizontal and you don't shake it too much.
* The footprint of this device is very small, makes the screen seem huge. Its quite thick though, but this makes it more ergonomic to hold.
* I'm not a huge fan of the glossy keyboard, it kind of sticks out from the matte everything else.
* I'm not much of a thumb typist, I've never owned a device this small with QWERTY, but i find the keyboard pretty good. Some key placings / key sizes will take awhile to get used to.
* The battery is very large. takes up about 1/3 of the space.
* The touchscreen is accurate using the stylus. I can easily manipulate the various OS screens without having to double press anything etc.
* Compared to say Sony or Nintendo it's not the prettiest device. It firmly puts function over form.

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craigix Posted 21 February 2010 - 04:59 PM
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mali, on 21 February 2010 - 03:57 PM, said:
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Dead1nside, on 21 February 2010 - 04:44 PM, said:
Okay so if we do any overclocking in software, without changing the voltages this will no matter what, even if it isn't the cause of any problems, void our warranty?
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Nobody will be able to tell if you overclocked it or not, thus it's a non-issue

_If_ it fails, you can either tell them you overclocked or you don't. It depends on you altruism coefficient. I got a replacement motherboard from Asus for my A600, because I didn't tell them.
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So you're a dishonest little shit too?

I want your order number. You are banned from having a Pandora from us.

That's right, your order is canceled.

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Op dinsdag 23 februari 2010 10:24 schreef Tain het volgende:
Hij zal best wel goed draaien op 800MHz, maar Texas Instruments heeft deze proc niet voor niets geclockt op 600MHz. De levensduur zal wel flink afnemen als je hem een tijdje op 800 laat draaien.

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To avoid significant device degradation for commercial temperature OMAP3530/OMAP3525 devices (0°C < Tj < 90°C), the device power-on hours (POH) must be limited to one of the following:
· 100K total POH when operating across all OPPs and keeping the time spent at OPP5 to less than 23K POH.
· 50K total POH when operating exclusively at OPP5.
· 44K total POH with no restrictions to the proportion of these POH at operating points OPP1 - OPP5.

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OPP5 is 1.35v. I believe devs have gotten around 750-800mhz at OPP3, with 900mhz needing OPP5

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Craigix: Chinese mould factory are back at work

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Op dinsdag 23 februari 2010 11:33 schreef Tain het volgende:

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Geeft TI eigenlijk garantie op die chip als je hem overclockt? De 720MHz chip van de 3530 is hetzelfde chipje alleen door TI getest dat deze naar behoren functioneert op 720MHz ipv 600