Just A Question About Programming
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With the size of the screen and without a keyboard it'd be pretty difficult and very time consuming - i'm sure there are text editors out there though, which you could simply load your source code into to work on.
As for full development enviroments, I don't know of any for the GP2X itself.
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crusty
Still Fresh
Haven't seen any working keyboard connections yet.
Pushing the joypad to type would make texting on a
cellphone seem like heaven. Current musings seem
to be about usb keyboards and that implies a
breakout box for usb hosting. Another, simpler
possibility would be a serial port keyboard plugged
into the EXT port but I've seen no mention of that.
Screen width is limited to about 50 characters and
source code tends to get wider than that quickly.
Of course, if you want to write in assembler then it
should fit horizontally without much problem.
Screen height implies about 15 lines of text, so it is
certainly doable.
Using telnet over the USB port and running vi shows
that the cpu is more than fast enough to handle
text editing.
Conclusion: we need a working keyboard.
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skeezix
Internal Development
The CPU is certainly fast enough -- remember, we used to code before there was 200Mz 
For what its worth, I ran a mail server and web server on 200MHz for 10 years (died when lightning killed it awhil eback) -- it served very well excepr for the interpreted stuff like Python .. but compiling on it was fine and such, and the GP2X is similar specs to that poor beastie. (But even more so, I coded in a unix shop in 1994 with machines not much more powerful than a GP2X )
The real constraints are as above -- keyboard and display, but both can be externalized with enough evil trickery.
jeff
For what its worth, I ran a mail server and web server on 200MHz for 10 years (died when lightning killed it awhil eback) -- it served very well excepr for the interpreted stuff like Python .. but compiling on it was fine and such, and the GP2X is similar specs to that poor beastie. (But even more so, I coded in a unix shop in 1994 with machines not much more powerful than a GP2X )The real constraints are as above -- keyboard and display, but both can be externalized with enough evil trickery.
jeff
skeezix
Internal Development
Asd they say.. QBASIC ruined more people than it helped =)
jeff
jeff
