Exophase
Nothing good will ever come of Exophase.
Orkie said:I don't see why the different screen would force everything to be recompiled. It is abstracted in hardware: the display controller in the Pollux is separate from what they call the 'Multi Layer Controller' which generates the final image to be shown on the screen. Controls may be more of an issue for things which read the GPIO stuff directly rather than going through the kernel interface.
Because this screen is 320x240 and Wiz is 240x320. Programs running in 320x240 mode on Wiz may work but the ones that are using 240x320 directly in order to avoid tearing won't.
quote said:The F100's joystick was digital, this one's analogue.
Also (I never owned one), I heard that worked quite well on the zodiak, no?
But yeah, DPad would be better.
Neither sbock nor ED ever said this was analog. If it is that'll be another thing that makes it incompatible with some Wiz software, ie ones that are reading from GPIO rather than /dev/gpio. They can do SenorQuack's GPIO faking trick, but I'd be pretty surprised if they do. They could also output the GPIOs electrically (assuming the analog stick spits out pure analog values) with circuitry or a CPLD or something but I doubt they'd do that too.
Still, what I heard about the Zodiac was that the controls were generally poor for emulators, which is mostly what people play on Wiz.
This could be okay if released alongside the Wiz, but in replacing the Wiz they're making a huge mistake IMO. The dpad, OLED, and small size were the main things people liked about the Wiz... and GPH themselves claimed there was too little demand for a gaming F300, so why would there now be demand for this? Or do they think they're going to rock the handheld world by including an accelerometer? And why is wifi still external? That's another big mistake, software will not want to use wifi nearly as much if it's some optional feature. Add-on features rarely do as well as builtin.
You know the worst thing about this? For a pretty modest cost increase they could do a handheld designed around Samsung's S5PC110 instead and it'd completely blow Wiz away, hell, it'd blow Pandora away. They'd probably still dick it up with bad controls and a low resolution screen but at least people would have a reason to buy it. Even phones in China are using S5PC110 now (see Meizu M9)
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