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    Attention Shmup fans..

    After playing the trial version, I bought the game. I enjoy shmups even though I'm actually pretty bad that them. Fortunately, the easy difficulty setting in Astebreed is actually easy: I completed all six stages and died only once. I played in Wine under Linux. To make audio work, I installed...
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    GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

    The main advantage of the Zero is that it is much cheaper than the Pandora. If you already own a Pandora, there isn't much you'd gain from buying a Zero as well. The BIOS is executed by the main CPU though, it's not the same situation as uploaded firmware that is executed by an external...
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    GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

    Our analog stick doesn't contain any firmware: its analog outputs are connected directly to an A/D converter in the JZ4770 SoC and that ADC is read by the driver in the kernel. The proprietary bits are all in the kernel, so it would just be a matter of building a kernel without those bits...
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    GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

    Currently in OpenDingux only one application can use the framebuffer (display things on the screen) at once. There can be as many background applications (daemons) as you like though. What would you want to use task switching for? It's not on our roadmap at the moment, but if there are...
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    GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

    The GPU driver is not operational yet. For the toolchain, you can find instructions for building it on this wiki.
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    GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

    GCW is an American company, the factory is in China and the developers are all over the world (Europe, USA, South America).
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    GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

    On my unit the speakers are fine: the sound is as good as I would expect from such small speakers. I don't know if the final version will use different speakers or not.
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    GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

    It is technically possible to have the Zero act as a USB HID Gadget and use it as a game controller in that way. This is currently not on our roadmap however, there are simply too many other things to do first. By the way, the d-pad on my unit isn't perfect: EvilDragon noticed immediately that...
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    Gcw Zero - Discussions

    No kexec or chroot will be required, just an adjustment of library search paths. The issue is that because the JZ4740 in the Dingoo A320 has no hardware floating point support and floating point emulation in the kernel is super slow, the A320 toolchain and rootfs are built with softfloat...
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    OpenDingux: first end-user release

    Antony Pavlov is porting OpenDingux to the Ritmix RZX-50, which is similar in hardware to the A380. The rootfs is pretty much working already as far as I know, but porting the kernel will be a much bigger job, since there are quite some differences between the JZ4740 and the JZ4755.
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    OpenDingux: first end-user release

    This is for the Dingoo A320/A330 users here: It has happened, the egg that was laid two years ago has finally hatched: Ayla and I have declared OpenDingux to be ready for end users. So if you are using Dingux and would like a more polished distro, this would be the ideal time to try...
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    yet another stupid... thread (on porting)

    Java ME does not include Swing. I don't know if SWT could be ported to it, but even if it could, existing apps might not work because they need other packages that are not in Java ME. Actually Java ME consists of a number of different profiles with different packages in them, but none of them...
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    yet another stupid... thread (on porting)

    Do you want Java SE or ME? Since you also talk about flash, I assume you want Java SE for running applets. I don't think many sites use applets anymore though, so I'm not sure porting Java SE for this purpose is worth the effort. Java ME is designed for mobile devices and I think it could run...
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