Software Plans For The Pandora

[christo930]

Since a lot of people are so excited about the Pandora, I'm curious: Are there any non emulation or porting projects that developers plan on bringing to the Pandora that couldn't be done on the GP2X?

Will gp32x.de keep the gp32 and gp2x archives or will they disappear to make room and bandwidth for the Pandora?

Chris

 

[atomicthumbs]

I think Squidge is talking about Spot.

ZodTTD said he'd be working on a dynarec'd DOSbox.

A_SN said that he'd be developing for it.

Wait, non-emulation or porting? Oh well.

 

[hal9000]

Since a lot of people are so excited about the Pandora, I'm curious: Are there any non emulation or porting projects that developers plan on bringing to the Pandora that couldn't be done on the GP2X?

Will gp32x.de keep the gp32 and gp2x archives or will they disappear to make room and bandwidth for the Pandora?

Chris

All open source games available on Linux should be extremely easy to port ( recompilation, some tweaks in the interface to make them more hadheld-friendly).
You can have a look here: http://www.happypenguin.org
Personnal wishes: neverball, quake3, x-moto, glTron.

What is this silly idea about destroying gp32/gp2x archive? The gp2x won't die in one day, you know.

EDIT: Forgot to say that I will port GNU Go and DROD as soon as I get it

 

[PokeParadox]

Plenty of homebrew ideas reside in my noggin... time to develop them is scarce, however. But don't be surprised if something of mine makes it's way on the Pandora. I'm guessing porting GP2X games to Pandora would be quite easy also, so you should see many of the more popular GP2X games crossover. Not to mention any new homebrew that anyone is hiding up their sleeves!
And after that I gather internet and PDA and other useful application will emerge due to the added functionality of the Pandora.

 

[efegea]

A port of Torcs! well, no need for it because it's already in the debian repositories..

If the Pandora had accelerometters, it should really rock, because I've played Torcs on my pc using the nintendo wiimote and enjoyed it a lot. A bit of sensibility calibration is needed, thought..the wiimote is too sensible.

Anyway I think it will be possible to play torcs on the pandora using the wiimote (but not pandora's internal acceleroteres, as it will not have any), it only needs a bluetooth dongle and the cWiid driver, and of course a little script, I have one I can share with you if you want it Oh, and a wiimote :lol:

 

[christo930]

Since a lot of people are so excited about the Pandora, I'm curious: Are there any non emulation or porting projects that developers plan on bringing to the Pandora that couldn't be done on the GP2X?

Will gp32x.de keep the gp32 and gp2x archives or will they disappear to make room and bandwidth for the Pandora?

Chris

All open source games available on Linux should be extremely easy to port ( recompilation, some tweaks in the interface to make them more hadheld-friendly).
You can have a look here: http://www.happypenguin.org
Personnal wishes: neverball, quake3, x-moto, glTron.

What is this silly idea about destroying gp32/gp2x archive? The gp2x won't die in one day, you know.

EDIT: Forgot to say that I will port GNU Go and DROD as soon as I get it


Maybe not, but as the pandora archive becomes larger, space might need to be made. I don't know how many people know this (here), but america online used to be known as Q-link which was a C-64 (and other 8 bits if I remember correctly) online service. When Q-link shut down and became AOL a huge repository of software that was on Qlink exclusively was forever lost. There were many freeware and shareware programs on there that may exist on diskettes in basements across America, but for the most part is gone. Since GP32X is the only repository of gp32 and gp2x software that I know of (at least in english), it could be lost forever.

Chris

 

[Alex.]

I don't think EvilDragon would have the heart to pull the plug on the GP2X archive Heck, the GP32 archive still exists, and if worst comes to worst he could ask for monthly donations to keep the server running, I'm sure a lot of people would gladly contribute.

 

[PokeParadox]

Or file mirroring.

 

[goobers]

I'm looking at making some music based apps, perhaps some kind of reconfigurable music interface (think of the lemur, but obviously not multitouch). I'm thinking wireless midi/OSC.

Possibly thinking about making a software synthesizer too.

 

[christo930]

I don't think EvilDragon would have the heart to pull the plug on the GP2X archive Heck, the GP32 archive still exists, and if worst comes to worst he could ask for monthly donations to keep the server running, I'm sure a lot of people would gladly contribute.

I would like to see him offer the archive on dvd. I'd gladly pay 10-20usd on a dvd of the software archive (not the rest of gp32x.de) I say 10-20 because I really don't know how the developers would feel if the archive was any more money than that. 10-20 I am sure, would cover the cost of reproduction and everyone would be happy.

Chris

 

[A_SN]

A_SN said that he'd be developing for it.

Indeed. I've already got a nice realistic space rocket/solar system simulator in the works for it, and when this thing comes out I'll start creating a touchscreen-based drawing program specialised in the creation/edition of spectrograms (see the link in my sig). Also I'll create sometime soon whenever I have time to code again a 2D stick figure skateboard simulation, with a nice spline-based world editor using once again the touchscreen for input. Who knows I also might "port" colourd to the Pandora is the LCD needs it and if the hardware registers allow such a thing.

I'm excited about the computing power of the thing, but the two aforementioned simulations could content themselves with the power of the GP2X, so what really gets me going about the Pandora is the 800x480 24bpp screen, the touchscreen, and also the analog nubs could be used to some interesting effect.

I only hope I'll have time for coding sometime soon and that I won't get sucked too deep into S60 Open C programming.

 

[supaimposter]

I'd like to see some kind of games making software that is point and click llike games factory.
Would be great to be able to make games on the move ,also the touch screen would be cool for this

 

[quote]

I don't think EvilDragon would have the heart to pull the plug on the GP2X archive Heck, the GP32 archive still exists, and if worst comes to worst he could ask for monthly donations to keep the server running, I'm sure a lot of people would gladly contribute.

I would like to see him offer the archive on dvd. I'd gladly pay 10-20usd on a dvd of the software archive (not the rest of gp32x.de) I say 10-20 because I really don't know how the developers would feel if the archive was any more money than that. 10-20 I am sure, would cover the cost of reproduction and everyone would be happy.

Chris


Nice idea, but rather a lot of the stuff in the archives is updated frequently...

 

[White Demon]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this idea was tried in the later days of the GP32s life but was knocked on the head when most of the developors were uncontactable about having their works put onto CD.

Don't quote me on that though, I could be way off.

 

[Peter R]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this idea was tried in the later days of the GP32s life but was knocked on the head when most of the developors were uncontactable about having their works put onto CD.

Don't quote me on that though, I could be way off.

You are correct. It was kknd_cf who attempted this feat.

Edit: But it's simple enough to rip the archive with wget. I did it once before.

 

[Alex.]

Edit: But it's simple enough to rip the archive with wget. I did it once before.

Doesn't that bog down the server a lot though?

 

[Peter R]

well it was over a period of a week as I left a large delay time between requests.

Obviously if everyone starts ripping it then its not going to be good. But one person could rip it and then torrent it.

 

[PokeParadox]

Torrenting wouldn't be half bad! specially if done correctly; You can check the items you want to download in (good) bittorrent clients.

 

[Peter R]

Torrenting wouldn't be half bad! specially if done correctly; You can check the items you want to download in (good) bittorrent clients.

Of course. Thats an excellent idea. I will try and get something like that going soon. I would do it right now with the rip I already have of the archive but that PC got burned down on Christmas eve :S .

 

[christo930]

Torrenting wouldn't be half bad! specially if done correctly; You can check the items you want to download in (good) bittorrent clients.

Of course. Thats an excellent idea. I will try and get something like that going soon. I would do it right now with the rip I already have of the archive but that PC got burned down on Christmas eve :S .


Bit torrent locks up my router. Do different clients work differently, or is it the nature of bit torrent to do that?
IOW, is there any client less likely than the official one, to lock up the router?

Chris