Gp2x For Education


lucoxade

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A couple of years back Sony released a linux kit to run a modified version of RedHat 6.x on a PS2 so that people could develop there own apps and learn about the internal workings of the PlayStation2. It was fun, I made a port of a Megadrive emulator and built a groovy mp3 jukebox.

Most of the kits were sold to hobbyists but a lot were sold to universities and schools, some universities even had degrees on game programming based on this set up with labs layed out with dozens of machines. Heres a link to Sony's site

What was my point again? :huh:

If we got some universities interested in the GP2X it could be a great basis for learning about embedded systems and system on chip architectures as well a portable mltimedia and gaming platform at a low low price! It could bring a lot of new interest and skills into the community which could snowball into more commercial game development B)

I know that there are plenty of SOC devboards available but none that are so very cool as the GP2x!! (unless its got robot arms and legs kinda like an ED209 from Robocop that would be cool)
 
If we got some universities interested in the GP2X it could be a great basis for learning about embedded systems and system on chip architectures as well a portable mltimedia and gaming platform at a low low price! It could bring a lot of new interest and skills into the community which could snowball into more commercial game development cool.gif

I contacted a game academy, but didn't receive an answer...
 
I offered up my GP32 for free to anyone who was thinking about running a short course of programming in a school. Got no replies.
 
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