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July 14th, 2011, 00:59 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Caanoo
Here you'll find how to:
* cut down to only 859 ROMsets (937MB instead of 1.9GB)
* extract subsets of the 599 games worth playing, or the 319 all-times best (with full listings of games and their rankings IMHO)
* implement LOTS of extra cheats: updated from May 18th 2000 to April 2009
* enabling screenshots
..plus ready-made game configurations (also saving your battery life).
[Done on MAME4ALL for the Wiz, but should work just the same on Canoo - with the exception of the .GPE menu reset maybe.]
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...?0,0,0,0,5,741
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July 14th, 2011, 00:53 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Wiz
Here you'll find how to:
* cut down to only 859 ROMsets (937MB instead of 1.9GB)
* extract subsets of the 599 games worth playing, or the 319 all-times best (with full listings of games and their rankings IMHO)
* implement LOTS of extra cheats: updated from May 18th 2000 to April 2009
* enabling screenshots
* add a one-click in-game menu reset .GPE
..plus ready-made game configurations (also saving your battery life).
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...?0,0,0,0,5,556
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July 14th, 2011, 00:51 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Wiz
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the missing libraries required to play Rikku 2000's SDLLopan on the Wiz, plus two icons
the game is here:
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,25,531
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,56,555
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July 14th, 2011, 00:50 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Wiz
tips'n'tricks for the Wiz
* how to get and install the latest firmware
* where to get and how to use the TV-out cable, for playing the Wiz on your TV set
* AC-DC adapters for recharging without a PC
* overclocking
* how to use the internal (NAND) memory
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,23,557
* fixing applications that get stuck on exit
* links for downloading, buying and staying up to date
..plus some useful suggestions (what SD card to buy, the screen-scratch protector film, the customizing stickers).
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July 14th, 2011, 00:24 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://boards.openpandora.org/index....-2-2011-07-12/
As promised, here is another blog entry, this time mainly focussing on Batch 2 and the future production.
Yesterday evening, I had a meeting with the guys behind the OpenMoko GTA04.
They have nothing to do with the previous OpenMoko hardware development, they basically built an OMAP3-PCB which fits into the OpenMoko shell.
Their PCB has similar production specs (same SoC, 8 layers, etc.) as ours, they basically live round the corner and they offered to help me (thanks a lot!)
They already have some prototype boards running (looks like a nice Linux-geek-phone to me, if you want to check it out, go to their website), which means they already found a company that can handle the production.
The meeting I had with them yesterday was a very promising one. Nikolaus, the main guy behind the GTA04, knows a lot more about PCB production than we do and therefore gave me some
contacts to some companies as well as some insider tips.
We also chatted about our experiences with CircuitCo and Nikolaus had some ideas why we had so many different issues with boards.
Additionally, he told me, that normally a proper production run should have a failure rate of about 3%. And from those 3%, some PCBs are fixable.
So far, CC had a failure rate of about 20% (even some more, if I count the ones I fixed because some parts like the volume wheel simply weren't properly soldered).
Not very impressive, so I'm even more eager now to found suitable partners.
Michael Weston sent me the latest gerber files and BoM (Bill of Materials, basically a big list of all needed components) last week.
So I'm now prepared to approach some companies and get the thing rolling properly!
If, however, you know some companies who are reliable and can do such productions as well (and which are at least located in Europe, Germany would be even better), feel free to contact me!
The more quotations I get, the more choices I have and the more I can discuss about the prices with some companies.
Let's get this thing going!
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July 14th, 2011, 00:22 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://boards.openpandora.org/index....-1-2011-07-12/
As you might have read on the boards, Batch 2 will NOT be produced by CircuitCo anymore.
I am currently contacting companies in Germany to get some quotations.
More about that in the next blog entry.
First, I'll try to explain the reasons for that move and summarize everything that happened during
the last few months.
January / February: Production resumes
As you might remember, CircuitCo promised us to finish the full 4000 PCB population until the end of last year, so that we had fully working PCBs and only the new nubs would have to be soldered onto them after that.
That would have been a cool thing, as it would've meant that Batch 1 would've been finished in January / February.
Well, as most of you might know, this hasn't happened.
Then a new guy had been employed by CC. His job was to do quality management and to oversee the Pandora production.
We got weekly status updates at first, which was great!
He analyzed the bottlenecks, all issues, etc.
While the production speed he told us was slower than we had hoped, at least we now knew what was going on, what issues there were to be solved and we got realistic sounding quantity numbers.
This worked well for the next few months. They regularly sent new boards and while quite a few had some issues, we could continue shipping and send back the non-working boards for repairs.
By selling some units as Premium Pandoras, we could cope with the monthly costs we had as well as with any refunds or money needed for RMAs.
May / June: WiFi issues occur
Then, as you might also know, a LOT of boards of a complete batch had WiFi issues.
Production then came to a halt, we sent these boards back to have them fixed and I created four new testing rigs including a new testing SD Card (with notaz' help) which tests almost anything the Pandora can do.
They can also run individual tests, so they can work on a PCB with broken WiFi for example and only run the WiFi test.
June / July: Communication gets worse again
That's when communication and our faith in CC started to break down again.
While at first we got a few quick replies regarding the testing SD Card, we didn't get a status update for weeks, even though we were asking for that once a day.
Two weeks after they got the new testing setup, they started to work on WiFi... 1,5 weeks later they had a problem with one of the tests. I had a bug in the script that prevented one test from working.
But it took CC 1,5 weeks to realize that. It sure felt like they haven't done anything within that time...
What's going on right now with CC?
We are missing about 1000 PCBs from batch 1, and it seems the only ones they have left are boards with issues they need to fix.
Most of these boards had aged bare PCBs. When PCBs are lying around for a year without being populated, they start oxidating - which had happened here. This leads to all kind of issues, as parts don't
solder properly anymore. Well, if they HAD populated the PCBs last year like the promised us they would, this wouldn't have happened...
(Note to fearful Pandora owners: The oxidation no problem if your board is already populated, it won't stop working suddenly. Once the parts are on the board, they have proper contact and won't fail)
Anyways, they agreed to pay for the new parts needed to fix those PCBs with issues.
They also mentioned they will fix 125+ boards per week, we'll see if that will work out. But they told us they will finish Batch 1.
Our conclusion?
Well, we personally aren't pleased with how CC handled the situation. We were given false promises, they didn't keep any deadlines, the number of boards with issues that need to be fixed before
we can ship them is way too high and communication was really lacking.
This caused our reputation to shrink as well, as we couldn't keep any deadlines either and it seemed we were telling lies and delaying things.
This is what we experienced, maybe we were just unlucky and other companies have no such issues with CC?
Maybe the Pandora was too complicated to build after all?
Who knows?
Some guy on the BeagleBoard mailing list also wrote he's been waiting three weeks for a reply from CC, so it at least seems we're not the only ones.
On thing that is without excuse for us is the lack of communication, the missing status updates as well as the non-kept promises and deadlines.
Issues can ALWAYS occur, but we'd love to know about them, so we can fix them together asap.
As you probably know, the iControlPad is also produced by us. We chose a company in Germany. They didn't miss a single deadline and each time there was an issue or a question, they contacted us right away.
This was a very pleasant experience.
This does mean that Batch 2 will NOT be produced by CircuitCo. We are now looking into various companies within Europe and should have some quotations within a few weeks.
If you know of any company who can do PoP (Package on Package population) and is reliable (some of you might be involved with some electronics company as well), feel free to contact me.
The more quotations we get, the better
This is a HUGE task we're doing here. I've personally taken the task to work on that. It will cost me a lot of time, energy and sleep - but I'm sure, with your help and support, I can do that!
Next blog post (with some more updates Batch 2 production) coming later today.
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July 10th, 2011, 21:51 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Caanoo:
KETM v0.9- Kill Everything That Moves. (caanoo version by sebt3, port of the Wiz Version by FAROX)
This is a Wiz adoptation of KETM (studio-grey/badblocks), fast paced tyrian style 2D shooter.
Is based on the good PSP conversion maked by Deniska...
Featuring
- 4 levels with different environments, music & bosses
- 1 bonus level
- 15 enemies with unique attack patterns and adjusting hostility
- 7 primary weapons
- 4 secondary weapons (rockets, laser, bomb, rotating shield)
- 2 mod (for now): original episode1 and 1941 mod
- Fully modable design: you can change sounds, graphics, script your own attacking sequences and intensity.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,30,738
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July 10th, 2011, 21:49 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Caanoo:
Skylark is a action RPG platformer with retro style graphics, for the Caanoo and Pandora.
Story:
A man by the name Borealis, finds a young boy out in the woods, alone in the night, forsaken to his own dreary fate. The man takes the child in and cares for him. The boy seems to have an odd relation to birds, which all around befriends him where ever he goes. Hence, he names the boy Skylark. Twenty years later, Borealis gets brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. Once Skylark discovers the murderer's identity, he traces the assailant for days to an old castle, far out into the ancient woods. Skylark ventures deep into the castle, to hunt down his father's murderer. Not knowing what secrets and dangers that awaits him, he will soon discover his higher purpose, and that he is the only one who can seal the dark force that is stirring in the heart of the old castle.
Gameplay:
Your goal is to advance further into the castle, through each of the rooms, but you can always backtrack to where you have previously been. Skylark has your normal RPG stats and level progression system, and as you kill monsters you will gain experience and level up. Your stats determine your attack and defense rate. You can also find items through out the game like swords, shields and armors that you can equip to enhance your basic stats. There are several magic Tomes hidden in the castle that you will find, and these Tomes are used as skills/magic. But to use a Tome it costs Action Points and another resource called Eyes, which are basically human eyes that are used as vessels for magic energy to cast Tome spells. These eyes were infused with magic by an ancient order of black mages, that practised their rituals inside the castle, in order to contain more energy for their rituals and spells. The eyes came from human sacrifices to the Dark One.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,22,737
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July 7th, 2011, 01:37 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingoon...x-(demo)-3589/
This is remake of the "Legend of Zelda - Mystery of Solarus". It's only a demo, but full version should be released soon.
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Quote from: http://www.zelda-solarus.com/jeu-zsdx-english
Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX is an enhanced remake of our first creation, Mystery of Solarus. Written in C++, the project was unveiled on April 1st, 2008. Its objectives are to correct the many flaws of its predecessor: the battle system, the bosses, the use of items, etc. However, that is hardly all of of it as new graphical elements and musics will accompany you throughout the game. This Deluxe version will be the opportunity for you to relive the adventure in a brand new way, or even to discover it for the first time if you've never played it before!
Controls (can be changed during the game)
B - action;
Y - item 1;
A - item 2;
X - sword;
Start - opens menu;
B + Select - closes the game immediately.
Other Languages
I am providing the English version of the demo, however, there is another three languages at (http://www.zelda-solarus.com/jeu-zsdx-demo&lang=en): French, German and Dutch. If anyone is interested on any of them, just download the version you want, even that for another operating system, and replace the file 'data.zsdx' from Dingux by the language you want.
Known Issues
The sound was totally disabled, since I am having problems with OpenAL. Anybody knows where I can find a precompiled package of that library for Dingux?
Official website: http://www.zelda-solarus.com/jeu-zsdx-english
For more information about the dingux port, visit my page (portuguese): http://www.shinnil.co.cc
Thanks Brodiaga for the suggestion
Discuss it here: http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingux-...rus-dx-(demo)/
zsdxdemo_dingux_v0.1.bin.zip
Author/Porter: Shin-NiL
Download: http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,30,515
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July 7th, 2011, 01:35 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingoon...s-kernel-3591/
SiENcE was so kind that he released his dingux kernel for dingoos with ILI3998 screen. Everybody who ownes one, test it and give him feedback.
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hi,
just because i was asked to build an kernel for ILI9338 here it is.
I don't have an ILI9338 Dingoo, so it would be cool if someone can test this.
Extract and rename 110705_ILI9338_zImage to zImage and put it on your sd-card.
The second file is only for programmers.
Features:
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0) It's a modified version of the all know booboo legacy kernel.
1) RTC (already from boukichi's kernel)
2) PowerOff (already from boukichi's kernel)
3) Safe Reset (Start+Select+PowerButton Up) (already from boukichi's kernel)
4) hold key as SDLK_PAUSE to not lose the compatiblity with some games (already from boukichi's kernel)
5) i2c + fbcon patch for TVOUT-Tool (thx to uli)
6) Swap file support
7) and the following Kernel Options to get Virtual Mouse support
Discuss it here: http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingux-...1703/#msg31703
dingux_kernel_110706_ILI9338_test.zip
Author/Porter: SiENcE
Download: http://sience.schattenkind.net/dingo...I9338_test.zip
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