Darkjudge1
Still Fresh
Well, time I got myself an account and introduced myself: I'm a new pandora user (though not an entire stranger to Linux.) and have been following the project since the early days, off and on. It was exciting to see and finally decided to plunk down my hard earned cash for one. 
Also, for those who may not have dealt with ithic.com before, and if you're here in the US, I must say the owner is awesome! Poor guy got to talk to me as I was just waking up (hey, I work swing shift.) since Google Checkout decided that it didn't like my name and therefore it must be eaten. It's kinda cool to get a call from the owner of the company and the fun of smaller projects like this. Service was fast and personable. Give Link a shot.
So, I got into this because I needed a small machine that was game oriented, but also had the capabilities of the PC and at least a good 10 hours of battery life and Linux in all its glory. (I've tried netbooks, They're ok, but I wanted something a bit more portable.) After looking at the Sony Lifestyle PC (and not really being satisified as the battery life looked atrocious.) I remember this project and decided to check in on it again (as the last time I looked, I think everything was still being done in Germany. But hey, there's a US dealer, the price is right and so, let's finally give this thing a spin. Seems like everyone here who bought it REALLY likes it. Which is awesome. Full desktop with some dev tools (Wannabe programmer, don't get too excited.)
This machine looks like it'll run DOSbox about perfectly. The implementation in Android just about drove me nuts, but that was probably about a year ago with an Epic. There was nothing wrong with the emulator per se. But the keyboard input on a physical keyboard was... lacking and chances are, it was probably user error. From what I could tell in the youtube reviews, the crazy thing seemed to have no trouble at all with much of anything that I would want to play...(Some old EGA/VGA stuff. Say... pre-1996?) So, that was a major selling point to me as well.
We also have a PSX emulator. N64 emulation (ok, we're still getting there and that's okay. Slightly disappointed Goldeneye doesn't run as well as I would hope, but I have some ideas for workarounds. Speaking of, anyone able to get this to run perfectly, yet? Think the latest video I watched was 1 month ago, though as I recall, the user didn't overclock.), and a few other open source games that weren't there when I used to have Ubuntu Linux as my OS. (Gah. I really don't like the way that distro is going. Ubuntu kernal my left foot. How dare you disparage the good name of Linus Torvalds!) And that's before we get into SNES (maybe now I get to see about Earthbound.), Sega, NES, Atari, and just so many other games that were either before my time, never had access to, etc.As someone mentioned, there's a life time of gaming here.
One other question while I'm thinking about it: QEMU (which looks like an awesome project) looks like It can handle some Windows 95 stuff. Has anyone tried Win98 (IIRC, the specs aren't that different, though I might have to go dig out my old disc for that.)
Finally, can anyone point me to some easy terminal guides? (I have not perused the entirety of the wiki yet. so maybe I'm getting ahead of the game.) I want to learn a bit more about the black magic that is terminal as I know most everything in DOS 6.22 (and some stuff from Windows XP/Vista/7) and would like to get about that proficient (down to writing config files, compiling source code for stuff that doesn't have executables, etc.) as I seem to follow the guides and end up having to look at two or three because, well, sometimes the stuff I do at the command line doesn't work. Hence why I'm asking this question. I have a few guides I'm working with now, but am always interested in more. (Preferrably guides that have you hands on with the terminal as that's the best way I learn.)
Ok, that's probably enough for my first post.
Also, for those who may not have dealt with ithic.com before, and if you're here in the US, I must say the owner is awesome! Poor guy got to talk to me as I was just waking up (hey, I work swing shift.) since Google Checkout decided that it didn't like my name and therefore it must be eaten. It's kinda cool to get a call from the owner of the company and the fun of smaller projects like this. Service was fast and personable. Give Link a shot.
So, I got into this because I needed a small machine that was game oriented, but also had the capabilities of the PC and at least a good 10 hours of battery life and Linux in all its glory. (I've tried netbooks, They're ok, but I wanted something a bit more portable.) After looking at the Sony Lifestyle PC (and not really being satisified as the battery life looked atrocious.) I remember this project and decided to check in on it again (as the last time I looked, I think everything was still being done in Germany. But hey, there's a US dealer, the price is right and so, let's finally give this thing a spin. Seems like everyone here who bought it REALLY likes it. Which is awesome. Full desktop with some dev tools (Wannabe programmer, don't get too excited.)
This machine looks like it'll run DOSbox about perfectly. The implementation in Android just about drove me nuts, but that was probably about a year ago with an Epic. There was nothing wrong with the emulator per se. But the keyboard input on a physical keyboard was... lacking and chances are, it was probably user error. From what I could tell in the youtube reviews, the crazy thing seemed to have no trouble at all with much of anything that I would want to play...(Some old EGA/VGA stuff. Say... pre-1996?) So, that was a major selling point to me as well.
We also have a PSX emulator. N64 emulation (ok, we're still getting there and that's okay. Slightly disappointed Goldeneye doesn't run as well as I would hope, but I have some ideas for workarounds. Speaking of, anyone able to get this to run perfectly, yet? Think the latest video I watched was 1 month ago, though as I recall, the user didn't overclock.), and a few other open source games that weren't there when I used to have Ubuntu Linux as my OS. (Gah. I really don't like the way that distro is going. Ubuntu kernal my left foot. How dare you disparage the good name of Linus Torvalds!) And that's before we get into SNES (maybe now I get to see about Earthbound.), Sega, NES, Atari, and just so many other games that were either before my time, never had access to, etc.As someone mentioned, there's a life time of gaming here.
One other question while I'm thinking about it: QEMU (which looks like an awesome project) looks like It can handle some Windows 95 stuff. Has anyone tried Win98 (IIRC, the specs aren't that different, though I might have to go dig out my old disc for that.)
Finally, can anyone point me to some easy terminal guides? (I have not perused the entirety of the wiki yet. so maybe I'm getting ahead of the game.) I want to learn a bit more about the black magic that is terminal as I know most everything in DOS 6.22 (and some stuff from Windows XP/Vista/7) and would like to get about that proficient (down to writing config files, compiling source code for stuff that doesn't have executables, etc.) as I seem to follow the guides and end up having to look at two or three because, well, sometimes the stuff I do at the command line doesn't work. Hence why I'm asking this question. I have a few guides I'm working with now, but am always interested in more. (Preferrably guides that have you hands on with the terminal as that's the best way I learn.)
Ok, that's probably enough for my first post.