Pickle said:craigix said:This really is like a joke thread.
'How could GPH mess up their next system'.
Analogue stick and no Dpad.
Drop the OLED.
Use the same Wiz SOC.
Put the speakers on the back.
Lolz.
They would never do that stuff.
i think its worth noting they are also changing to EABI from OABI, which also make all existing wiz software useless.
notaz said:Meanwhile I should get another Wiz while it's still possible, the developer ones have missing charging chip and needs that clunky devboard to be useable at all, also USB host is unstable on mine for some reason.
iprice said:I have a dev Wiz (kindly donated to my by WarmFluffyUK) - what's this "missing charging chip" about then?
Incidently, I really do like my Wiz. Rarely use GP2Xs at all as a result.
Peter R said:Are you certain that they are doing this?
Orkie said:You do know the kernel has an OABI compatibility mode Pickle...?
linuxftw said:To be perfectly fair I want one. I have to say it looks a kinda like a Tapwave Zodiac. Also why didn't gph upgrade screen res to 640x480 because the screen is larger there is no point in keeping it 320x240. I do like the addition of an analogue stick. For the love of God wifi 802.11b/g/n. Also 600mhz processor and 128mb. It would be cool if I could listen to music while playing games. However I do like how they got rid of the stupid to dpad thing and put in better controls.
SONY said:linuxftw said:To be perfectly fair I want one. I have to say it looks a kinda like a Tapwave Zodiac. Also why didn't gph upgrade screen res to 640x480 because the screen is larger there is no point in keeping it 320x240. I do like the addition of an analogue stick. For the love of God wifi 802.11b/g/n. Also 600mhz processor and 128mb. It would be cool if I could listen to music while playing games. However I do like how they got rid of the stupid to dpad thing and put in better controls.
For perfect Wiz screen size compatibility.
Also, where the hell did you get 600Mhz and WiFi b/g/n from???
One more thing...Lol, I can't believe you called a/the d-pad, "stupid" and you said, "put in better controls".![]()
EDIT: It looks nothing like a Tapwave Zodiac.
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I don't know I just want a faster processor and fast wifi I know those things won't happen but it would be nice. I said the two dpad thing was stupid sorry for the typo I hate how on the Wiz the actions buttons are a dpad so annoying to press so tiny. I think the controls are better. I would say the design is a little bit like a Zodiac maybe I'm imagining things but whatever.
ouch, it seems they have no clue about software then :huh:EvilDragon said:They mentioned that the games can't be compatible because the Caanoo has double the RAM (which doesn't make much sense for me... if games don't use more than 32MB RAM, they should work on both...).
please, please!I'll try to help them... the devices HAVE to be compatible... what sense would the same SoC have otherwise??
I believe he was referring to the control layout of the device which really does look like the layout of the tapwave zodiac.SONY said:EDIT: It looks nothing like a Tapwave Zodiac.
Kernel compatibility with OABI isn't a problem, but shared libraries are. How are they dealing with that? I guess they could put the old libs in a chroot (yuck).EvilDragon said:Orkie said:You do know the kernel has an OABI compatibility mode Pickle...?
I know, and I told that to GPH. They wanted to work to make the games compatible.
Why can't they hire someone who has a clue? I don't understand this strategy of using different contractors all the time.EvilDragon said:But according to an eMail I just got, they seem to be a bit clueless.
How is the memory layout done in the new system? Do they still have 32MB reserved?EvilDragon said:They mentioned that the games can't be compatible because the Caanoo has double the RAM (which doesn't make much sense for me... if games don't use more than 32MB RAM, they should work on both...).
It's been suggested that they had to do a quick redesign due to problems with availability of the OLED. Testing a new SoC probably would have taken too long. Remember what happened when the GP2X was discontinued before the Wiz was available?EvilDragon said:I'll try to help them... the devices HAVE to be compatible... what sense would the same SoC have otherwise??