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Always thinking of new ways I'll be able to use my Pandora, so I thought I'd see what you guys thought about this. Any full-featured organizer/PDA software out there that you guys know of?

Alright, I'll do that. I'm gonna wait until the bank issue gets sorted first however.

I'm interested in this as well. I forgot to buy the S-video adapter, pouch and development fund contribution last time. Just got the Pandora ... XD

Well it's id Software's engine, they just used a shadow volume technique that was patented. So technically the open source release could just include a less awesome technique for shadowing, as I noted earlier. Who knows? Depends on how badly id wants to release the source code I suppose...

I'm not saying it won't happen, and there probably exist certain workarounds, but this is the reason Ogg Vorbis took forever to catch on (for example). It doesn't even infringe any patents as far as anyone can tell; it was only the fear that maybe it did that stopped it from getting adopted in...

Right. That's the problem: when it's converted into an open source engine, that team is infringing on Creative's rights unless they also have permission. I doubt id Software would knowingly create that kind of a situation.

Eh? I've used three separate capture devices and they all worked with very little delay. One TV card I can't recall, a GameBridge (but that's cheating), and lately an Osprey-100 ... which is admittedly very expensive (got it free :P). Anyway, delay is always a possibility, but in many cases...

Remember that we first have to wait for the source to be released, which may not happen - and then we have to port it. Hate to rain on anyone's parade, but Carmack's Reverse is a patented shadow volume technique that's not owned by id Software. So unless Creative gives them permission to...

Personally I'll just be running S-video into my capture card. That way I get decent deinterlacing. Should work well for most games... not a great solution for everyone though, of course. USB2VGA aside, if you want S-video to look at all decent on a big screen, you will need some sort of upscaler.

That's...the whole point of the extra RAM/NAND. The reordering will cause an inconvenience, but it's something they couldn't avoid. Rather than simply apologizing and asking us to deal with it, they're giving us extra RAM for free. At the moment it's just a promise, but it's a freaking huge...

My DS will be reserved for DS games, my desktop will be reserved for new games that require more power than the Pandora has available, and I may as well just toss out my laptop.

Nice. I might have experienced similar phenomena over the years. o.o

By the way, ActiveX are just prettied up COM controls running Windows code, so they won't work on the Pandora. Also, +1 for VNC :D

Opening my DS was a huge pain in the ass because of the triwing screws (really low quality triwing screwdriver stripped them pretty much right away, had to drill 'em out). I highly doubt the Pandora will use anything other than little philips heads.

Just to bring this into perspective, here are a few things drawn with Colors! DS, a homebrew drawing application for Nintendo DS (which, by the way, also uses a resistive touch screen): These things will be easily possible with the GIMP running on a Pandora. Given you have the...

Single. Resistive touch screens can't do multi-touch.

I'm pretty sure I read something about it already being used, but ... can't remember where.

So last night I dreamed my Pandora came in the mail early. Which is really sad on multiple levels. Interestingly, it was white, quite hefty, and had a lot more buttons/LEDs than it does in reality. Also the analog sticks sucked ass. They were kinda chrome plastic that grinded along another...

Actually we already have hardware acceleration in the form of OpenGL ES 2.0. We don't have direct hardware access, but from a gaming perspective that only means we don't have access to the framebuffer (not usually accessed directly anyway). Unless I'm missing something. Aside from that, afaik...

Do you use Ubuntu? Debian should work similarly: sudo apt-get install audacious gnome-mplayer Then just run audacious and gmplayer respectively. Mplayer's gnome frontend is much further from what you desire; the point here is that frontends can be written that utilize mplayer behind the...