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Hello, I guess there are many arcade games fans here, so I have a question. Has anyone manage to finish games like Mars Matrix, Progear or 1944 with one credit? or with, let's say, three credits? This has always seemed impossible to me, and I really wonder whether this is actually impossible...

I think most people here know the difference between a language and a compiler. Or at least I do. "Blitz BASIC is a compiler" is maybe an incorrect statement, but its meaning is not really ambiguous and quite obvious, I think.

Hello, Qtopia is available for GP2X, too. I don't know whether it was updated for F200. About GPE, I _think_ (please check) that it needs memory swap on the SD card (which is slow and kills your card). Anyway, as it has been said, using a GP2X as PDA does not really make sense (for reasons...

It's funny how old stuff like that can raise controversy today :-) Super Skidmarks was definitely a real Blitz Basic game. I remember it was clearly advertised as a game that you could do in Blitz BASIC (actually it was an advertisment for Blitz BASIC). I was myself Blitz BASIC programmer, I...

I don't know for C64, but I know that a very large majority of Amiga games were not written in assembly. Demos were written in assembly, but not games (there are probably some exceptions, but only a small minority). The great things you could do with an amiga was done with a clever use of its...

I don't know where you got this info but it sounds completely silly. A large majority of video games were written in C (or even higher level languages), with, sometimes, some small parts in assembly. Doom, for example, is written in C, with just a very small part of the rendering code in asm...

This is wrong. Your view on the forum is strongly biased. Most discussions are technically oriented and does not involve any kind of trolls. Many people here are technically competent, friendly and helpful. Of course if you come to a topic called "Will It Ever Come Out?", you know what to...

My feeling is that fanboys have always been a small minority here. People have always criticized GP2X. For example, most people have acknowledged the technical superiority of the PSP over the GP2X much before Pandora was planned, which is not so common in this kind of community. Things tend to...

What make you think that? I am no expert in Lithium batteries, but I would bet on the opposite. My USB powered hard-drive works on my Dell laptop, but not on my old iBook G3, because it does not provide enough energy.

Actually, external 2"5 hard drive do not need extra power (at least some of them). Of course, in this case, I guess there is no hope to make them work with GP2X.

Hello, Well, someone more competent will probably answer to this question later, but I don't think that there is more problem with wifi on F200 than on F100. It is network over USB which does not work, that is basically using the USB cable for network connection without any additional network...

Yeah, pandora has 3D Acceleration. What you want to do should be no prob with it. Please note that I didn't say that this would definitely be impossible on GP2X, just that it would much harder and the result could not be as nice as with OpenGL. EDIT: ledro, you answered while I was typing...

This looks easy to code in OpenGL, with 3D acceleration. The problem is that GP2X does not have that. I don't know if current software OpenGL (gpu940?) implementation can handle transparency effects like that. In pure software, this looks way harder (if I understood you well, sprites are on...

Hello, Could you give more details? What kind of file is it? Did you make it yourself from another source?

Well, nothing. It is just common sense, or at least I believed so. I could have added "probably", but I don't see any "bull" there. I think it is official that it will support Debian-ARM packages, so it makes sense to believe that it will be somehow based on Debian. However, like any other...

Please don't be so unfriendly. This is wrong. A linux distribution is what you said plus an installation program plus many startup and configuration scripts. As is, Debian (like most linux distro) does not give you the opportunity to install a system which would be light and fast enough for...

Sounds like an outdated controversy, but as you said 80286 had twice more transistor and was released 3 years later. As far as I remember, my Atari ST was a better machine than a PC 286 / 8 thanks to its superior graphical capabilities, but could not match it in pure CPU power, for early 3D...

Thanks for your answer. Yes, that's a good point. However, the similarity in architecture helps a lot, especially when there is a dynarec, isn't it?

Be careful with frequencies, some operations which needed many cycles in the eighties can be done several times in parallel in one cycle on one processor today. Your 3GHz PC is way more than 10 times more powerful that a 300 MHz PC. A modern ARM / 200 MHz is way more than 25 times more powerful...

What makes you think that DosBox is slow because it is badly designed? Maybe it is slow because emulating a PC is hard, that's all. You're judgement is very quick and quite disrespectful, unless you have studied the code and know what you are talking about. I am no expert in emulation, but what...