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1) They don't support mods with this one. 2) It's paid for by advertisements. Dinking with this in the wrong way will affect their bottom line. It's not worth it for reason 2. Wanna see them come down on you like a ton of bricks? Risk that ad stream on this, even if only in perception. Only...

Linux is an OS. Having said this, the Linux version is an X86 version, which will NOT run on the Pandora. It'd have to be recompiled for Cortex-A8 and OpenGL ES for it to work. We're only 4K potential users. iD doesn't consider anything less than about 20k units sold as being "more money"...

Heh... I doubt that they're using the same exact wireline protocol that the ioquake3 engine is using- if they're not, you're going to have to at least reverse engineer that much and they might not be happy w/you over that. I'd advise NOT doing it- getting into pissing matches with someone...

IF iD decides to make a Pandora version from the Linux version, yes. Otherwise (which is the likely answer here...) no. The machine itself has the oomph to play it, but lacking a native binary plugin like they're doing for MacOS and Linux, it's just not going to happen.

Tremor's a front-runner for framing in an ideal OGG DSP codec for us that doesn't need licensing. I've MP3's only because .OGGs aren't supported on my car stereo (sigh...) and I can't add codecs to it (deeper sigh...), but if I could get more devices supporting it, I'd quit using MP3's. MP3 as...

They have to have permission from the publisher in many cases for a Linux version. The only real reason NWN had a Linux version was the former publisher (Interplay...) didn't care and they'd started it because they thought it was cool. Atari, once they got in on the deal, didn't try to prevent...

Heh... The only problem with this is that Atari's not being nice to Linux right at the moment- and they KNOW that NWN's numbers for Linux roughly equalled 30-40% of their total sales. With that knowledge, they explicitly ignored that userbase for NWN2 for no apparent good reason other than...

I'd have to concur with that one, God Ginrai... It's an evil hard task to try to accomplish even 10 fps with a DC emu with most hardware to begin with. Not impossible, but, as you put it, unlikely. I kind of class the suppositions of this nature in the same boat as the ones that keep trying...

No kidding... QUOTE So perhaps it has less appeal on you than a portable console, but it certainly has much broader use than Pandora and its emu/game/umpc focus will have. ffmpeg NEON was developed on it (and helped found issues with the chip); if you don't consider that as a large and of...

Heh... I'd have to say that I'd not mind being able to play that game in a mobile manner. My N64 is still hooked up for it and a couple of other games on my HD setup. ;)

In many cases, they don't even use a specific chip. They code up a codec for a fixed point DSP and use that. You could, in theory, make the same sort of codec- but nobody directly involved with the firmware can use anything other than the Vorbis, FLAC, or similar codecs.

IF they get the rights, I'll be more than happy to help port them for Linux in general and you'd have a publisher's attention at that point (along with all of their back catalog if you handed them THOSE titles... ;) ). You'll note that I said "IF". The reason I say this is that while Midway's...

You mean he wasn't making it all up out of the whole cloth all along? ;) QUOTE ninjamonkey = FAIL No kidding. I'm surprised that we have HOW many screens worth of discussion on someone's "Wouldn't it be cool if... Can anyone help me make it?" type posts. :D Here's a reality check for...

No, lulzfish... He's responsible for the IP licensing on SuperTuxCart and he was using it as an allusion of people ripping off artwork (which is an infringement and plagiarism...)

And right at the moment, to Eidos, we look like more of a cash sink. Publishers that size can't effectively utilize such small potential userbases (They need sales that look more like 50k units sold or larger at $30-50 a unit sold storefront...).

Heh... Even at the $100 price point, you're getting vastly more muscle than you'd have otherwise been able to obtain previously- for some things even Beagleboards aren't there (128Mb, soon to be 256Mb- this thing has more RAM to be able to do server-centric things...). You'd have had to spend...

I suspect all you'd need is to get signoff from 2K and 3DRealms and then hand Ryan Gordon a Pandora. :D

Think of the Beagleboard as something akin to a set-top version of the Pandora, especially after their respin- they're going to be a single SD version of the Pandora intended to be hooked up to an HDTV monitor. As far as projects, you can count Caster and a few other titles from myself and a...

Yanno... Even if it did, craigix, I'm not interested. I really only have a PS3 because my GF bought it for me and her kids for Christmas. :D Besides, PSP would be DRM infested, and moreover, it doesn't dovetail with my plans for Global Domination!... Er...did I say that with my outside...