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  1. Stephane Hockenhull

    Fake Open Pandora

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA I know you're saying this as a joke but if what I'm certain they're doing is spot on, ED could buy back his own Pandoras or at least a good chunk of them. by asking for 50 samples while dangling a 10,000 Pandora order deal. if they agree he'll get 50 of his Pandoras...
  2. Stephane Hockenhull

    Fake Open Pandora

    look up the episode http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rw6fc "The Wrap Up" chances are that's what those guys are doing. ah, yes, my bad. good catch. :lol:
  3. Stephane Hockenhull

    Fake Open Pandora

    they don't intend to be distributor, they don't even want to reverse-engineer the device. at the most they'll copy the case and cram a cheap MIPS clone system in there or even one of those NES SoC clones. but the cloning isn't the goal. they just want to scam someone into taking a huge...
  4. Stephane Hockenhull

    Fake Open Pandora

    no, that's not what they are doing. remember how they said they can only take orders of 15 units at a time for now ? its a classic fraud. - they buy 100 devices at full price from the original manufacturer - send 15 of those high quality devices to a few suckers as bait for $166 - if...
  5. Stephane Hockenhull

    "iGame" V10 Android Game Console

    which we don't need. reading analog joysticks isn't that hard, they sell ready-made analog-only controls and all you need is some form of ADC and a tiny bit of look up tables in the driver if they're not linear. the pandora nubs are over-engineered. the cheapest solution is to use a 555 or...
  6. Stephane Hockenhull

    Which one do you want first? (+video)

    yeah, I have a Rev C. BeagleBoard with Ubuntu, display set to 800x480, OS on the SD card.
  7. Stephane Hockenhull

    "iGame" V10 Android Game Console

    yes, its definitely overkill, this could be a cost-saving trick for P2 :) analog nubs don't need a high sampling rate, anything above 20Hz is more than good enough, especially if its pre-filtered in hardware to something close (but above) that frequency. for speedy twitchy games like 2D...
  8. Stephane Hockenhull

    Which one do you want first? (+video)

    I don't have my pandora yet, still waiting somewhere in line on the first batch. from what has been said, the Pandora is slightly faster than the BeagleBoard so it can only run better :)
  9. Stephane Hockenhull

    GCC released for C6000 DSP

    maybe, but in the case of Linux it acts as a coprocessor. unless there's a full user space support and C6x code can make any system calls (file I/O, etc) on the Pandora/Linux it is a coprocessor. GCC supporting C6x is good news because it will enable things like OpenCL and other situations...
  10. Stephane Hockenhull

    GCC released for C6000 DSP

    from what I understood, and if it is like other DSP co-processor I've seen, you send data and a piece of code to the DSP, it process the data and when its done you read back the result. it can't run whole applications, only "simple" functions (relatively speaking) and you need to add code to...
  11. Stephane Hockenhull

    Which one do you want first? (+video)

    maybe. unlike video and audio decoding and mixing, the geometry generation is of very variable length complicating the CPU<->DSP handshake. but definitely something to look into when we get DSP support in gcc. especially since the chunk generator can run multiple threads on separate chunks...
  12. Stephane Hockenhull

    Which one do you want first? (+video)

    Made a video running on the BB: https://www.youtube.com/embed/lyCJ4YxodDQ?feature=oembed rendering will speed up a little once I re-enable mipmaps. the chunk geometry update and disk I/O is fully multi-threaded so the game keeps running smoothly as the environment changes. ( @EvilDragon...
  13. Stephane Hockenhull

    Discussion about SPM / Repo (Split from other topic)

    who needs root when you can access all the user's files. @StreaK : I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm just stating what anyone could do. unless the Pandora runs every single app as its own user, only allowing access to its own files and read-only shared libraries, and with limited IPC...
  14. Stephane Hockenhull

    Discussion about SPM / Repo (Split from other topic)

    ... really ? :blink: you use his app to download another one of his apps, why would he need to attack over SSH when he can attack locally right on the machine and run whatever he'd want from within the application. get the giant wooden horse into the city and then worry about someone seeing...
  15. Stephane Hockenhull

    5" screen (on a P2)

    I don't see an issue with using a 256K color screen. 6bits per channel is perfectly fine with high resolution and combined spacial and temporal dithering you get an effective 2M colors at the very least. you get HD text on high contrast and great colors on smooth shades using temporal...
  16. Stephane Hockenhull

    MineCraft on Pandora ?

    lol, thanks. but, my thought on the issue is "whatever" :) its just what the window caption shows, the sub engine module that renders cube is actually called "cube world" internally as part of a bigger engine. and yes I know "Cube World" is also the name of a game in development. its...
  17. Stephane Hockenhull

    MineCraft on Pandora ?

    there's a poll for my project with some old screen shots: http://boards.openpa...-first-updated/ and more recent screen shots: most of the progress has been done under the hood: for now the game plateau around 65MB of memory usage with a huge world in all directions (up and down as...
  18. Stephane Hockenhull

    Pandora outdated?

    event queuing with deferred rendering is much faster than the usual scanline synchronizing. saves a bunch on i-cache and a bit on d-cache misses. even on a single processor system. with event queuing you can render multiple scanlines at once and other tricks. in most cases you don't even...
  19. Stephane Hockenhull

    2 Months..... umm, weeks to go (2012-02-06)

    My previous laptop has the same issue, 1/3rd of the wifi access points I've tried don't interact well with the on-board wifi while the other 2/3rd connected fine. I had to change my home router, and carry an external USB wifi adapter ( they cost around 25$ ) just in case when traveling or use...
  20. Stephane Hockenhull

    Pandora outdated?

    yeah, I guess I could play with that. altho its just around 12% cpu time for a game, moving data in and out of the DSP may take just as much CPU time for synchronisation. plus the extra effort needed to rewrite the code in assembler for an obscure DSP, and have ppl enable the DSP at the OS...
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