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May 16th, 2010, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Pandora:
Giana’s Return aims to be a worthy UNOFFICIAL sequel of “The Great Giana Sisters”. There is an official sequel for Nintendo DS named “Giana Sisters DS” ( http://www.giana-sisters.com/ ) and also has slightly more levels than Giana’s Return. In other words, it’s worth the money 
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May 12th, 2010, 23:56 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Pandora:
Narcissu is a free visual novel by the dōjin group stage-nana, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.
It has been optimized to work on the Pandora by EvilDragon (Main Menu has been changed to fit 800x480)
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May 12th, 2010, 23:55 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Pandora:
The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures...
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May 12th, 2010, 23:43 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.summeli.fi/?p=1685
The new AntSnesQt comes with Big D-pad, which is optimized for resistive touchscreen.
I had some help for the new graphics for this release:
Thanks for Saiyaku for the new D-pad graphics and UI graphics.
Thaks for Jasper Terveer for the small d-pad and button graphics.
What’s new
Improved compatibility? (the code is much better aligned with drPocketSnes)
Big D-PAD
The new AntSnes has more realistic snes style graphics. See it yourself
http://www.summeli.fi/?p=1685
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May 9th, 2010, 23:53 Posted By: wraggster
Newly released for Pandora:
Eat The Whistle is an OpenSource soccer game originally developed by Hurricane Studios as commercial product for the Amiga platform.
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May 9th, 2010, 11:52 Posted By: wraggster
Shortly after announcing a blockbuster deal to acquire Palm, HP confessed that it would be "doubling down on webOS," with near-term plans to "scale it across multiple connected devices." We took the liberty at that point to assume this meant that a larger webOS-based device was at least sitting around in the rear of someone's mind, and now it sounds as if Palm loyalists may actually have something tangible to look forward to. According to an unsubstantiated report over at the Examiner, an "insider at HP" has informed the site that "a webOS tablet under the code name HP Hurricane could be released the third quarter of this year." This all lines up well with what we've heard over the past few weeks: HP pledged to take webOS to places it has never been, strong whispers emerged that the HP Slate was being shelved, and now, people close to the HP camp have given a name to a purported webOS tablet slated for Q3. There's obviously no telling if this is simply hot air being blown, but we wouldn't be shocked to see HP nail down a webOS slate in time for the sure-to-be-rockin' 2010 holiday buying season. Or maybe we're just crossing our fingers, humming aloud and praying to our lucky stars that this all pans out.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/08/w...umored-for-q3/
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May 8th, 2010, 19:04 Posted By: wraggster
Some great news concerning the Pandora Console from the Official Blog
That's the weight of the packages fully packaged up with painted cases (unless our friends lied to us) - and getting the plane to UK on Monday. Yay!
We'll probably get a tracking number on Monday (it took two days the last time we got a shipment from China), then we can be sure!
Where's the rest of them parts?
The batteries just got custom clearance, and will probably arrive on Monday.
700 boards are there, they have the nubs already soldered on. Another 800 boards are already populated.
The rest of the nubs are in Texas, as they are directly soldered on during population.
4000 LCDs are there. 4000 stickers are there.
10.000 speakers are there. 4000 WiFi Antennas are there.
5.000 Quick Start Manuals are in UK and also will arrive on Monday.
All the other needed small parts are there.
Keymats will arrive together with the cases... well, and that's all there is. Time to start assembly. Yay!
The OS and some software
The OS is also coming along. We installed an image to the NAND a week ago - it runs well and rock solid so far.
I tried quite a few things to break it - hard reset while it was running quite a few times, etc.
The OS survived. The only thing I managed to do was making the bootup hang when I did four Hard Resets while booting in a row - guess a hardware driver hang. Was solved by powering off and reboot again - and still the filesystem was fine and intact.
Looking good here. Bootup is still a bit slow (55 Seconds at the moment), but that's something we surely try to improve in the near future. As a test, I simply removed some services that won't be needed AFAIK and got a booting time of 33 seconds. It won't make it in the first release (as we don't have time to test if my removed scripts REALLY don't break anything!), but it's a nice view of what can be done. Switching to Upstart (a tool which enhances bootup by running scripts parallel instead of serial) will also make a difference. Stay tuned for OS updates!
Power Management has become better. The WiFi driver now supports power management - so with the standard OS settings, 7 hours with WiFi are possible. Without WiFi, it goes up to 13 hours at the moment.
For a basic OS, this is all pretty advanced already. There will surely be some settings that can be enhanced (i.e. Browser layout, MIME types, etc.), but we'll wait for suggestions from you guys and will include the best settings in future firmware versions.
Also, in case you want to meddle around and break the OS (you should only do so on the SD Card, but some probably still mess around with the NAND I guess  )
I will create a recovery bootsystem which allows you to restore the config files on your system or backup your home-directory.
Aditionally, notaz created a flasher (it's the same one we use to install the OS for the first time). With that, you can copy some files on your SD Card and restore the image completely (don't do this too often though, it will wear out the NAND over time )
Various devs (me too, though I don't think you can call me dev) are packaging up games, apps and emulators that are ported so far.
We have Stella, Hatari, UAE4ALL, DOSBox, Vice, Colem, Exaile, Free Heroes 2, Commander Genius, Angry Drunken Dwarfs, BattleJewels, Battle for Wesnoth, Super Mario War, C-Dogs, Pandora Panic!, Quake 2, etc. and more coming up...
Some stuff needs more work (notaz wants to improve PicoDrive more before Pandora release, UAE4ALL is just a direct port of the GP2X Version, runs fullspeed Amiga 500 games, but is not as compatible, PSX and N64 also need more work), but I guess that stuff will keep you busy for a while.
MAJOR thanks again to ALL the devs who have helped us with the OS - despite them having few time... THANKS!
I also suspect there are some devs among the preorderers who also like to port some games (or code their own ones).
I can't await to see what's coming from you guys - I'm sure it will be worth all the trouble we went through.
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May 4th, 2010, 17:02 Posted By: wraggster
The BlackBerry Leaks website is reporting that RIM is working on a tablet that will be smaller and thinner than the iPad. The tablet also goes by the codename: 'BlackPad' or 'Cobalt'.
The site says it will have full BlackBerry OS compatibility and functionality. It won't be finished this year though.
Much depends on the success of iPad, which is now at one milion sales. That's impressive, but new Apple devices always do well such is the devotion of fans of the brand. Doubts still linger over its long term performance.
The BlackPad is all hearsay of course, but BlackBerry Leaks has a decent track record in this regard.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/36983...-on-iPad-rival
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April 25th, 2010, 19:30 Posted By: wraggster
News from the Pandora Blog:
Yesterday, we were in for quite a surprise!
On Thursday, air traffic was back to a regular state - but delivery services (like UPS) have quite a backlog and need some time to catch up.
They told us, our shipment won't arrive before early next week.
Therefore, Craig was quite surprised when he found a note left by UPS yesterday at his door that there had been a shipment for him - and that they left it to a neighbouring business.
And there he found it: The shipment from Texas. Lying around on the grass, visible for everyone - and nobody was really paying attention to it.
Quickly he delivered the packages to where they belong - and now everything is safe and sound. Still a scary thought that about half a million USD were lying around on the grass...
Anyways, that does mean: The boards, LCD, WiFi Antennas and some other minor things have arrived in the UK!
Now we need to wait for the cases. Those cases have been produced and painted, but as it looks like, UPS won't pick them up until sometime next week (I guess they try to deliver the stalled shipments first and then start picking up new ones once their back in normal state).
As usual, we'll let you know when UPS picked things up (well, if they tell us... as said, we didn't know the boards would arrive yesterday )
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April 25th, 2010, 12:25 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.summeli.fi/?p=1604
The AntSnes Qt is ready for first testing round. The whole UI is now working on top of Qt, so I expect there to be some new bugs compared to the older AntSnes version. The good news is that this installation won’t overwrite the older AntSnes. I also heard the the D-pad doesn’t suck anymore, so you should be able to use this emu with touch only phones too.
I didn’t even try to get the Audio working, since the QAudio is not yet working in the Qt 4.6.2. I’ll continue with that after the QAudio is finalized by Nokia.
Know issues:
1. The audio is not yet implemented.
2. Save states are now found in different slots than in the previous AntSnes release.
3. The installation is now a bit more complicated, since the SWEvent capability is required.
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April 22nd, 2010, 00:22 Posted By: wraggster
News from http://www.open-pandora.org/index.ph...emid=2&lang=en
Did you know I can foresee the future?
I didn't know myself - but Mae (a user from the German Community) has found out that I actually predicted the volcanic eruption back when I held my presentation about OpenSource handhelds...
Go check it out yourself, it starts at about 4:20:
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April 21st, 2010, 17:14 Posted By: wraggster
Google Maps Navigation has been released as a beta for Android phone users in the UK and Ireland.
As the name implies, it blends turn-by-turn navigation with Google Maps, adding in voice search, satellite views, Street View, live traffic data, and a special mode for when the handset is placed in a car dock.
The app caused a huge stir when announced - not to mention a sharp drop in share prices for the GPS satnav firms whose services it competes with.
Google Maps Navigation was initially only available for Android 2.0 devices (i.e. the Moto Droid) when it was first unveiled in October last year.
A version for Android 1.6 handsets was released a month later in the US only.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/36838...avigation-beta
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April 19th, 2010, 22:50 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.summeli.fi/?p=1615
I have been working with the new Qt UI that I’m going to use with my all emus in the future. The AntSnes Qt is quite close to be ready for first beta release, and the gpsp emu is on pretty good shape too. Here’s a short video of the new AntSnesQt running on my N97.
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