So where are we with the Pyra--really?


Execuse my poor Education Background But what was Sigma again ?
My education fails me too. Sigma is a greek letter: lowercase sigma is σ and uppercase sigma is Σ.

The uppercase letter is often used for summation, and the lowercase for standard deviation.

In fact if I'm not mistaken, the unicode character you used was the summation character, not the uppercase sigma, although they look just the same.

But I didn't get what use of an uppercase sigma or a summation could be fun instead of some currency.

So I don't know exactly what particular meaning is attributed to your typo.
 
Sigma is the boss of Mega Man X5

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I placed my order on November 1, 2021
I made my original pre-order in 2016, got a "ready to ship" in March 2023 where I paid the balance, and then received it February 2024.
That doesn't actually mean a whole lot; orders obviously weren't made linearly, with a lot of early pre-orders all at once, so it's entirely possible that he's done with those early pre-orders and is rapidly closing in on more recent ones.
 
I'm usually just a silent reader here in the forum. To be honest, what bothers me about the whole project is the absence of the most important person, EvilDragon. In my opinion, there should be a proper update here, you can't hope that the community will keep the flag flying for years.

I know the man is very busy at work. We all are somewhere. But you can't lift such a mammoth project out of the ground and hope that it will just bob along. You'd think they'd have learned from the story with Craig back then - in the end, the community decides how it goes on. Nobody here expects that the day after tomorrow all Pyras will be delivered. But for God's sake, we should start to hear something proper from the “boss” again.

I love GP2X handhelds, I have them all here. I have a Pandora and it feels like I have everything around it. But I haven't and won't dare to try the Pyra, for all the known reasons. And that's a shame, because I've been passively dying for the whole project for many years.

BR

Jan
 
Wow, Pyras are still backlogged? Guess I'm glad I decided to go the pre-pre order route.

I wonder if there's anything that can be done to help ED out, I'm sure people would voluenteer.

But yea, updates look like they've been sparse.
 
I'm usually just a silent reader here in the forum. To be honest, what bothers me about the whole project is the absence of the most important person, EvilDragon. In my opinion, there should be a proper update here, you can't hope that the community will keep the flag flying for years.

I know the man is very busy at work. We all are somewhere. But you can't lift such a mammoth project out of the ground and hope that it will just bob along. You'd think they'd have learned from the story with Craig back then - in the end, the community decides how it goes on. Nobody here expects that the day after tomorrow all Pyras will be delivered. But for God's sake, we should start to hear something proper from the “boss” again.

I love GP2X handhelds, I have them all here. I have a Pandora and it feels like I have everything around it. But I haven't and won't dare to try the Pyra, for all the known reasons. And that's a shame, because I've been passively dying for the whole project for many years.

BR

Jan
As a long time Pyra owner (years now), and being an original pre-order of the Open Pandora. I’m quite certain the Pyra is dead.

I debated on even writing this reply, but usually every 3-6 months I come on here and hope there’s some big news. Only to find even fewer and few updates and activity. Clearly the project is toast.

Reality is most likely going to be before the pre-order queue is completed sadly. Which is going to cause a lot of problems I’d imagine.

Even if (HUGE IF) all the orders are filled (at a massive financial loss), the device is so out of date at this point it’s not really much more than a novelty. The software is still buggy and very early in many aspects. I’d absolutely argue the OpenPandora was a much more refined device even well before 1.74.

Lastly, the community, which I’d argue was the absolute cornerstone and framework of the OP’s success is not even on the same vertical as it used to be (also, there are many more modern and easy platforms to work on with more support and not EOL/obscure hardware that’s so slow).

Not trying to be a downer, but I’m just basically tempering my expectations when the message inevitably gets posted that the project is being shelved.
 
This morning I starting writing software for the pyra that is going to blast it stratospheric and blow the pants off all other retro gaming handhelds.
 
As a long time Pyra owner (years now), and being an original pre-order of the Open Pandora. I’m quite certain the Pyra is dead.

I debated on even writing this reply, but usually every 3-6 months I come on here and hope there’s some big news. Only to find even fewer and few updates and activity. Clearly the project is toast.

Reality is most likely going to be before the pre-order queue is completed sadly. Which is going to cause a lot of problems I’d imagine.

Even if (HUGE IF) all the orders are filled (at a massive financial loss), the device is so out of date at this point it’s not really much more than a novelty. The software is still buggy and very early in many aspects. I’d absolutely argue the OpenPandora was a much more refined device even well before 1.74.

Lastly, the community, which I’d argue was the absolute cornerstone and framework of the OP’s success is not even on the same vertical as it used to be (also, there are many more modern and easy platforms to work on with more support and not EOL/obscure hardware that’s so slow).

Not trying to be a downer, but I’m just basically tempering my expectations when the message inevitably gets posted that the project is being shelved.
You don't seem to grasp the core concepts of retro gaming
 
It is sad but it seems to me as well that the Pyra project is dead.
The Pyra is mistakenly considered to be outdated, the software is buggy, the hardware is buggy, producing it is a lot of work, and it would be at a loss as well. And if there was progress then ED would probably have given some updates, if even a small hasty newspost. Either he made a lot of progress without giving a single update, which seems unlikely to me; or he barely made any progress all these months, which to me make it seem that the Pyra project is dead.

I am at least glad the Pyra got released. At least the 2 Months™ have passed.

However the hardware is not that old. It is newer than the N900, and that's still a pretty good modern phone, as is shown by the fact it can run the revolutionary 3D game Bounce Evolution. I know you guys would not like that game because it is too modern and advanced and you only like old games like pong, but that is beyond the point.
 
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