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I put Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on mine, it runs very well and is essentially a full computer. I plan to install GitLab, and later on run a small multiplayer game server for some future projects. For coding, it depends on what you'd like to make. Games, web stuff, small utility scripts? Any past...

It is, I can't believe you remember that! I'm re-reading your feedback from that thread now :) I was way in over my head back then, but now I'm in a position to make my plans a reality. All the code has been recently rewritten, so the only thing that is the same are some of the graphics.

Poorly :p I'll get to them eventually, but for now I'm working on a mindless arcade game that I'm building in parallel with my game engine. Runs on pretty much everything:

Not only do I still use my GP2X, but I'm working on some new games for it! I'm curious how large the community still is around these cool cats. I also wonder if there is any interest in a GamePark coding compo this year, or did your toolchains rot? :D

These are from 2015, I only have a small Asterix sticker on it now :D

What do you mean by the screen being garbled? Some Wiz applications set the screen to portrait mode 240x320 to avoid tearing, then rotate and draw a landscape buffer to it every frame, or use custom drawing routines that work in portrait mode. Maybe the problem is related to that. Could you try...

Try this, it should fill the screen with white pixels: #include <SDL.h> int main(int Argc, const char** Argv) { SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO); SDL_Surface* screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(320, 240, 16, SDL_SWSURFACE); memset(screen->pixels, 0xff, 2 * 320 * 240); SDL_Flip(screen)...

I use the Open2x SDK for GP2X to build Wiz binaries. I couldn't find any links to prebuilt packages (I think they used to be on SourceForge and open2x.org but not anymore), so I uploaded the one I have to DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n6kadszy02d28bh/open2x.tar.bz2 Extract the tar.bz2...

Minimenu makes it easy, you just press the Y button to open the currently selected PND's documentation. Do most people here use XFCE instead?

That's the plan! I will develop it into an actual game and release it for Pandora and GP2X sometime in the next few months if all goes well. Got quite a few things on the way :)

Thanks for keeping the PND up to date ptitSeb, it's great to revisit this game on Pandora :)

Make sure to also try Bolcataxian, Bolcatoid, Lacuna, and Elena, very polished homebrew games with a demoscene vibe. GPWar is another good one. GP32 Homebrew Reviews is great for finding new things to try on your :gp32:

I noticed a crack on my ReBirth's lid a few days ago, seemingly out of nowhere but maybe I bumped it on something. Nothing lasts forever, and minor scrapes like this can be liberating since you don't have to worry about keeping something in perfect shape anymore :)

Could you post the code? Maybe it tries to initialize SDL in an unsupported way, or something else we can spot.

I used to boot from an SD card too, more so because I thought it was cool (especially coming from GP2X-land) than from not wanting to wear out the NAND. Now I would only do it if the NAND really did break, or if I wanted to try Slackware and Pandebian, which I hope to get around to some day...

I have mine around and use it every week or so to test my work in progress games. The battery is holding up well after 5 years. I wonder how many Caanoos were sold?

Speaking of, anyone remember this? :D

Looks like version 0.5.8 was the last release to use SDL1, but it's over a year old. I remember someone ported the SDL1 version of C-Dogs to the GP2X long ago and it ran very well, so if not much has changed since 0.5.8 as far as a Pandora port would use, it might be worth to downgrade :) Thanks...

If you try an AC adapter, make sure it's center-negative. Most random ones I see are center-positive so they're no good for the GP32.

Welcome back Fluffy, always good to see a regular from the GP32x days :) Alex