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February 19th, 2018, 23:39 Posted By: wraggster
Heres an RPG type game for the Pandora, heres the release news:
Hydra Castle Labyrinth, originally Meikyuujou Hydra, is a freeware Indie platformer developed by E. Hashimoto, a.k.a. Buster. Now the game has been ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.
The game hearkens back to early “Metroidvania” games like Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious and Legacy of the Wizard: the player explores an immense maze-like dungeon, collecting tools and keys that allow them to proceed deeper. Certain areas are cordoned off from the main dungeon area, and each presents a more linear zone with a boss at the end. The player can find new equipment to make themselves stronger as well.
via https://pdroms.de/pandora/hydra-cast...dora-game-port
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February 19th, 2018, 23:34 Posted By: wraggster
The Pandora gets another release of the web browser based on Firefox:
Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!
Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own source with carefully selected features and optimizations to maximize the browser’s speed*, stability and user experience, while maintaining compatibility with thousands of Firefox extensions many have come to love and rely on.
via https://pdroms.de/pandora/pale-moon-...plication-port
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February 4th, 2018, 15:42 Posted By: wraggster
Heres a great looking Doom type game for the Pandora console, heres the release details:
Barony is a 3D, first-person roguelike. The goal of the game is to descend to the bottom of a dark dungeon known as the Devil’s Bastion and destroy an undead lich named Baron Herx, who terrorized the peaceful town of Hamlet in life and is now harboring a curse against the land from beyond the grave. To aid you in your quest are friendly humans who have been eeking out a rough life within the dungeon for generations, as well as any friends you can bring with you in real life: Barony is the first of its kind as a first-person roguelike in that it fully supports cooperative multiplayer for up to four players.
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February 4th, 2018, 15:39 Posted By: wraggster
Its a great day to be a Pandora Owner with yet another homebrew release, heres the news:
HakuNeko is a Manga Downloader, now ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.
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February 4th, 2018, 15:37 Posted By: wraggster
I would love to see more open source clones, especially of Theme Park, one can always wish  , heres the release news:
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game “Transport Tycoon Deluxe”, a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.
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February 4th, 2018, 15:35 Posted By: wraggster
Heres an awesome release for the Pandora, an open source web browser, heres the news:
Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!
Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own source with carefully selected features and optimizations to maximize the browser’s speed*, stability and user experience
via http://pdroms.de/pandora/pale-moon-v...plication-port
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February 4th, 2018, 15:33 Posted By: wraggster
The Pandora continues to be the centre of Homebrew , just a pity the worldwide base is very small but its always good to see new releases, heres the news:
Moonlight allows you to stream your collection of Steam games from your PC to another device. Moonlight (formerly known as Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. This PND now use Moonlight embedded, a native client. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.
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January 23rd, 2018, 22:03 Posted By: wraggster
Heres todays update from Evil Dragon concerning the Pyra Handheld:
Oh well, at least now we're ALMOST back to normal (except for Chinese New Year coming up).
Speaking of FormAction, let's start with the case!
According to them, all changes in the molds have been done and they already produced new samples, including the sealing for the speakers.
Well, that's what they claimed last week.
I'll check back with my contact if he could already check them within the next few days.
I will not trust them until I receive them... but basically, they should have time until February, and you can be sure I'll push them!
Let's continue with the CPU Boards...
If you followed the other thread on the boards, you probably know that the new CPU boards have been ordered.
However... and that's the bad news: Chinese New Year is approaching, and as the bare boards are being produced in China, they won't show up until after that.
Well, not much we can do here.
Good thing is that the simulation shows the PCBs should now work fine with the 4GB RAM, so we only need to wait for them to appear now 
... on to the mainboards...
The mainboard with the fixes has been tested and so far everything seems to work as it should!
Also, Wifi is now A LOT better. In our testing environment, we had six different Wifi networks with different distances and various strengthes.
Whereas the old mainboard could only find two of them, the new mainboard instantly did find all six at once, and the signal quality was a lot better as well.
We still have to do more tests regarding download speed and reliability, but it's really looking like it's fixed now as well.
That's that.
The only thing left now is getting rid of the sirring noise.
That's mostly trial and error... try as many different capacitors as possible until we find a combination that works.
Sometimes it's even enough simply using a capacitor from a different manufacturer... some might remember the whirring noise some of the 1st Edition Pandoras made. That probably was the same
This trying-out doesn't need a layout change and therefore can happen while the new bare PCBs are being produced.
So yes.
All known bugs and issues have been dealt with. We're not aware of any issue left right now!
The mainboards should now ALL be 100% correct. It's time to wait for them to arrive... so we can build one more round of prototypes (which will finally go to the prototype orders!)... and then we can setup the mass production.
... tweaking the cooling...
In the meantime, we're working to improve the cooling even more. The current situation lowers the CPU temperature by 20°C (according to the simulation), but we're trying to improve that even more while we're waiting for the new boards.
Thanks to the simulation software Juliano uses, we can easily try out different scenarios (connecting the Al plate to the OMAP as well, using one or two heatsinks, etc.) and find the best one possible.
It's both interesting and fun! Those simulations are simply awesome. They take in account the different conductivities of the materials as well as the thickness and the OMAP temperature!
... a peek into the future...
Well, next step is definitely the planned prototype production, hopefully now with fully working 4GB RAM Pyras with all the bugs squashed.
The next step beyond is the mass production. Global Components is ready (and have bought a lot more new machines that help improving the production quality and testing), and the parts are ready as well.
Similar to the first months of Pandoras life, the software needs a lot of tweaking as well... but the more people receive a Pyra, the faster any bugs or annyoances are found and improved.
And then?
Well... there's a possible SoC being released which could become the first CPU Board Upgrade:
The i.MX8 M QuadLite, which is the mobile version of the i.MX8.
More here https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/thr...-closer.82436/
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January 21st, 2018, 21:22 Posted By: PSPReview
Newly released for the Pandora Console
Portable Final Burn AlphaThe main goals of this final burn alpha port are/were : * have a basic but user friendly user interface on non windows devices * use a recent rendering interface for speed and effects support * cross-platform and code portability * easy updates of fba core (no modifications to the original sources) * use arm asm m68k (cyclone) core on arm devices
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January 21st, 2018, 20:33 Posted By: wraggster
Heres a bloody awesome app released for Pandora:
Moonlight allows you to stream your collection of Steam games from your PC to another device. Moonlight (formerly known as Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. This PND now use Moonlight embedded, a native client. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.
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January 1st, 2018, 21:00 Posted By: PSPReview
Newly released for the Pandora Console
R-Type Reloaded is a full remake of RType on the CPC, done by Easter Egg in 2012.Comes with a special verison of Arnold TNG modified to make this PND as much plug'n play as possible.Controls are mapped to Pandora DPad and (X)/(B) for fire/release pod.Also, you have F1 to reset the GameF2/F3 to Save / restore a SnapshotF4 to Quit.
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December 26th, 2017, 14:03 Posted By: wraggster
EvilDragon has posted an update concerning the Pyra Handheld Project which hopes to bring a high end open source games handheld to the public very soon, heres the news directly:
Well, it's christmas today, so I hope you're all enjoying a calm and peaceful evening with your family or beloved ones!
And those who aren't: Well, don't let that bring yourself down.
You're part of our community at least, you got friends here
Anyways, christmas is also a day you give and receive presents - and while I can't give you your Pyra yet, I've got some quick news for you!
And no, it doesn't have anything to do with case colors... but some very important color changes in simulation.
Soo... your personal christmas present is:
The redesigned CPU board passes all simulated tests!
Nikolaus found the time to finish his improvements on the CPU board early this week and Juliano already found the time to run the simulations - thanks a lot to both of them!
And thanks to Juliano who made a nice video, you can get another view behind the scenes and see the improvements here:
https://www.openpandora.org/download...R_20171221.mp4
Just a quick reminder what was the issue and what happened lately:
The current prototypes we are using did fail horribly with the DDR connections... huge voltage losses, which are most probably the reason they only work with 2GB.
The first improvements made by Nikolaus end of November did fix all the DDR traces so they fully pass and don't have any voltage losses, but the power supply still had some areas left which didn't pass the test.
This doesn't necessarily mean that this is a problem - it just means that TI doesn't guarantee all OMAPs will run without issues if they're not being used within the specs.
And while we didn't have any power supply issues with the OMAP with our currently used CPU boards, it could still be they will cause issues under some circumstances (for example, when the 3D Chip is heavily used together with NEON code and a high clock rate, etc).
So we wanted to see if we can fix those as well.
A few weeks after the DDR fixes, Nikolaus tried to optimize these areas as well - with great results.
All of the tests pass - it's highly unlikely the CPU boards will have any issues now!
Yes, now the mainboards AND the CPU boards should be done.
Another puzzle fully finished, it seems!
Time to order prototype PCBs!
What have we learned from all of this?
Simulate, simulate, simulate.
Seriously, while this wasn't necessary at all with older SoCs like the OMAP3, it seems impossible now to get a properly working design with modern SoCs without simulating it.
This knowledge will greatly help with future CPU board upgrades (but let's finish the OMAP5 one first )
For anyone interested, here is the comparison table with the most important power supply stuff of the OMAP5 of the version before and after the fixes:
https://www.openpandora.org/download...ison_200mA.png
More details https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/thr...changes.82241/
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