After a long time I got my pandora. I haven't preordered one, neither from ED nor from Craig. In fact I didn't think, that I got a pandora before the pyra. I was just in the right spot at the right time and switched my GCW Zero for a CC Pandora, which is really awesome. I don't think you can compare the GCW with the pandora very well. Of course some emulators are the same and if not, at least the systems emulated are. But the handling, the size, the price, the community and the general approach (mini linux pc with gaming controls vs. console) differ and I think both devices have their raison d'être. However the pandora fits better for me than the GCW.
So I think this is a good time to officially™ introduce myself. My name is Ziz, in the past also Cyberpuer and in the RL Alex. But as Alex is quite common name, just leave it Ziz. I was born in 1988 in the capital of The German Democratic Republic. However they were afraid of me and closed the business quite fast and sold the rest to The Federal Republic of Germany later. Today I live in the capital of The Free State of Saxony, which is a subsidiary company of The Federal Republic of Germany, I am 25 years old now and study computer science and hope I will do this for the rest of my live. Studying rocks.
I started programming in the fifth class of school, when I switched to the grammar school (dunno, whether this is the correct word in English. The school systems in different languages are quite confusing). I learned Turbo Pascal in a work group and school and this was so awesome... I stayed with Pascal and DOS quite a long time. It was enough for me, I had direct access to hardware and stared to make small games. I started with C because of the GP2X. I knew, I could use Free Pascal, but I was veeery lazy. Furthermore I was still a windows user and there were a ready to use Dev-C++-Cross-Compile-Toolchain. Later I switched to Linux (First Ubuntu, now Debian and sometimes Mint) and developed there with Pascal and C parallel. I even made a lot of Free Pascal stuff in university (in tasks, where we were free to choose the programming language), but the last years I didn't do much. Instead I took a look at python, which I use know for the GCW OPKManager as repository-grepping-script-language. But I think Turbo Pascal and DOS or, if you like, Free Pascal and a Linuxshell (!) are the best way to learn developing fast stuff and Python and a shell the best way to learn developing, when you don't want to make games later or to work with specific hardware, but to make little calculations. But this is my opinion. I know people starting with Visual Studio being quite good programmers.
I still only own two openhandheld devices: The gp2x and the openpandora. I don't know, why I should keep dozen devices, which are often quite similar... Furthermore I own a Gameboy, a Gameboy Advance, a SNES, a Gamecube, a Wii and a PS2. Furthmore I used to own a Gameboy Color, but I borrowed it and never got it back.
So you see, I am a nintendo fanboy. Or better: Was. Today I think a bit different about this company. But the games are awesome! I loved the Mario games and Pokémon and always chose Kirby in Super Smash Bros.
The PS2 had two reasons: First of all my public library rent PS2 Games and I didn't have to pay for it, because I was a pupil. Furthermore I buyed singstar. Now I used my singstar microphones via USB on the PC with Performous, which is even more awesome, especially if you have tons of disney songs and are drunken...
In my not virtual or gaming live I love to hike and to camp in the nature. I am a vegan. I love to paddle. I have a rubber kayak, which is more awesome, than is sounds. It weights 18kg and has a backpack included. I can travel with train in whole saxony for free and can paddle, whenever I want, whereever I want. For free!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcugdBJP2CEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYYkWcf5Gg.
I also love to swim, to read fantasy books("Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn", "Abhorsen", "The seventh tower" and others), playing board games and stuff probably everybody likes like biking (but not indoors, Prof. Oak forbid it), having fun with friends, drinking beer, drinking beer and having fun with friends and just being silly sometimes. And trolling. Hell, I LOVE trolling... :>
So, that's me!
greetings, Ziz
PS: Normally I say, that it is very imported to read a post after writing it to remove errors and stuff. But I am lazy (and not moderator in this board
). And the errors are part of me, so they fit here quite well! So you will find errors in the post. Hm, in fact you would even find errors in the post after a proofreading of mine...
