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With the Gear VR (VR head set), it has to maintain 60 FPS, and to do that the phone can heat up, but if it heats up too much you simply get a warning screen come up saying the game has been paused, you need to take the head set off and leave the phone to cool for a while before continuing to...

You are probably right, I think notaz mentioned that in at least one graphically intensive game (AvP): "Pandora has SGX530 that's the first (and slowest) in SGX series, so that Voodoo2 might be better suited for the workload this game gives." so perhaps the Pandora is better than Voodoo 1 and...

The Pandora is like having a PC with an 800MHz processor, 512MB of memory a Voodoo 1 GPU and 800x480 monitor, with (typically) poor Wifi built in. The main difference is there is a loving community that has made a lot of software run on these humble specifications which has helped it stay...

This was always one of the biggest problems with the Pandora, unexpected delays, and what huge problems it caused. Obviously this time the delays are tiny in comparison, but I think everyone would agree the real difference is the fact ED is providing a detailed account of what has happened, both...

I have used ipredator for quite a while now (years I guess, I lose track), https://ipredator.se in terms of what is it good for, downloads vs avoiding tracking vs privacy, I have no idea, as far as I know a VPN with decent bandwidth covers all the bases. Their FAQ does explicitly state that they...

With regards to libstdc++ versions; this has felt a bit messy to me on Pandora (I'm coming from Windows), and I'm not sure if that is due to lack of NAND space or whether it is a more fundamental Linux problem. On Windows you have Side-by-Side Assemblies, so when an application runs, Windows DLL...

I have a DK2 and GearVR at work, tried to buy the consumer Rift five times on launch, but just kept getting checkout errors and then the ship date started to be increased (as early slots sold out) so not bothering now. More excited by the Vive. We are developing a VR game at work and it is a...

I have owned a few laptops over the years, I have personally found the Mac Book Pro to be the most solid (being a Windows user I am booted into Windows 99%+ of the time and rarely in OSX). I am currently using an early 2011 model, getting on for five years old, and it really is still as good as...

Something I only learned recently, in English, if you are describing hair colour, blond / brunet is used for males and blonde and brunette is used for women. In modern English the distinction can be dropped, but either way, I did not previously think of English as having these sort of...

Merry Christmas! As far as I know, being baked means being high on drugs :) I don't know how widely use that is, but quite different to being fried!

@EvilDragon I don't know if this is related: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg86047.html but "Taal panel driver has support to set rotation and mirroring. However, these features cannot be used without causing tearing, and are never used. The code is just extra bloat...

Threads like this make me realise how little I know about electronics and Linux (vs software running on top). The rotator chip problem does seem like an interesting issue to solve but certainly out of scope for me.

@notaz thanks for the extra details, it certainly makes static recompilation sound very tricky to get fully working. Out of interest, are the symbols stripped from the D2 executable that Blizzard distributes? I am guessing so, but I know some studios don't seem to bother.

@notaz could you confirm if my understanding is correct: any calls within the same module do not suffer from any problems with calling convention; however the problem you are seeing is when inter modular calls are made wrong the wrong parameters are being passed? If this is the case, is the...

Haven't tried this yet, but already thoroughly impressed at the technical side of it. Getting x86 stuff working on ARM like this feels like it should be a proof of concept type thing, not a full blown solution that provides such excellent results. So cool. Thanks notaz for delivering once again :)

Well the whole point I was making is the end user can choose, some people prefer Facebook, others prefer email address. For this forum, it actually allows you to authenticate via email, Facebook or Twitter, and from a very quick Google, I can't see any built in ways to use the board directly to...

The less barriers you give the user the better. A lot of mobile games these days let you play without logging in at all, it will just create an anonymous user for you. On top of that, when you do decide to login, you effectively link your account to a login, so you can give the user options of...

Again, I would like to know what % of users will be running most of those things. Disclaimer: I don't have the answer! I guess that the majority of users will just play games/run 'standard' apps, but I am completely prepared to be wrong on that! But for a bunch of stuff on that list surely there...

Okay, I certainly do not think you are stupid, but to answer your questions: 1. My question was what is it that 90% of people using the Pyra will be able to do under 'proper' Linux, but not Android. It isn't a loaded question, quite genuine. Your suggestion of people buying a different Chinese...

I am curious: for 90% + of perspective Pyra users, is there any advantage of running the default OS over running Android? Sure there will be a good number of people that have serious reasons, but I am going out on a limb and guessing that 90% of users just boot up the OS and fire up games...