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There should not be too many problems hooking up a keyboard to the GP2x :)

Actually, I don't see why not - as far as Magic Eyes is concerned, the cloner is another customer for its chips. In fact, if the knockoff has lower quality materials for the remaining components (slower RAM, front- or non-backlit LCD, lower resolution LCD, etc) it will be cheaper than the GP2X...

Really? I have the latest version of Acrobat Reader (7.something) on WinXP, and all I got was a popup asking me to accept downloading a font pack. After I clicked "OK", I got a few minutes worth of progress bar, acrobat restarted itself and had no trouble reading it (the first time I clicked...

Because of the way chips are manufactured, their price goes up exponentially with MHz (the machines in the manufacturing plant, which regularly crank out high quality 200MHz chips, may be incapable of producing commercially-viable runs of 400MHz chips). This means chips that get a lot more...

[/i]Yeah, C has a few of those little tricks, like if (c) { statement } being equal to if (c != 0) { statement } I wouldn't worry about Hungarian notation (you mean things like lpszMyString?), that's just a (very lame) attempt at improving the readability of the code by encoding the type...

And when the apples are Intel and the oranges are AMD, it's usually sour grapes :P

Actually, if what the GP2X dev wiki says is correct, the chip that does the USB support is the PLX Technology NetChip 2272. This chip gives one a lot of cool things besides USB 2.0 (including USB mass storage device support built into the hardware - hardware-accelerated GPDrive!), but which...

Huh, interesting. I would have tried to fix it by fixing setjmp and longjmp :) (which, being C library functions, are IMHO more important to get working than a 3rd party lib). I totally agree with you about misusing setjmp/longjmp - I suspect libpng was written by someone who normally uses C++...

Does the joystick emulate 8 or 12 keys? (ie do we have access to the full resolution of the hardware?)

Save what you have now, because when we figure out how to use both cores it will be a very good starting point for a dual-proc UAE (one core does the CPU and the other everything else).

Well, sorting through the broken English, it sounds like they do have support in hardware, but because they currently have no drivers they can't honestly say the GP2X as a whole does support it. On the plus side, this makes the lack of support something that can be fixed with a firmware...

Definitely. C++ requires you to learn a more complex programming paradigm, which IMHO just gets in the way when you're just starting out. For proof of this, just go to your library and compare "The C programming language" by Kernighan and Ritchie with "The C++ programming language", by...

So, here's a question that was asked a lot at the beginning, and which still hasn't been answered as far as I know; maybe some Korean-speaking person here can read the reviews and enlighten us: how do you turn the backlight on and off?

In any case, that is only one out many chips that perform this function, I know that there are other chips that can handle several amps, and of course there are chips that handle other voltages, eg 9V -> 3.3V. You can do a quick Google search for "DC to DC" or "charge pump 5V", I just posted...

I don't know... the MMSP2 has a hardware scaler built in, which should make that happen in the blink of an eye. Then again, maybe they're using some 3rd party image displaying code (there's enough of those available for linux) and they haven't gotten around to modifying it to use the hardware...

Wow, I just had a look at the 30MB movie, and the software clearly still needs some work... movies play seemingly at full rate, while displaying still pictures is surprisingly slow (watch the amount of time it takes between the guy clicking the shoulder button and the displayed picture changing...

The nice thing about amiga emulation is that even if it's not perfect we always have "Plan B", Atari ST emulation. The ST was a competitor to the Amiga, but its design favoured simpler, off the shelf parts over custom chips (Commodore had its own chip plant, while Atari did not). This means...

Sorry, I should have probably provided a bit more than just the link to the datasheet. The relevant part of that for non-techies is:

That's not a problem at all: http://www.st.com/stonline/books/pdf/docs/7403.pdf

If you're working on Windows, I can recommend downloading the free C++ IDE from msdn.microsoft.com (I think they call it visual C++ express edition). You can then create a "makefile project" and use all the cool features of visual studio (typeahead, etc) and use gcc to compile. You won't get...