WizardStan
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No. The ram is built into the processor. 128 was the only (economically) feasible option at the time.polkunus said:
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The Pandora Port Request Thread
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from the FAQGruso said:
"What platform is Battlefield Heroes for?
Battlefield Heroes is currently being developed for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
What future updates might hold, who can tell..."
i think that definitely leaves a door open for ..future ports to other platforms
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gruso
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I don't mean to be a negative nancy, but you have to take that with a grain of salt. If anything, EA are probably leaving open the possibility of a Linux port, or a PSP version. Neither of these will run on an ARM based device like Pandora. EA won't develop anything for a handheld that doesn't sell in Sony-like numbers.
Pandora does look like it's going to make a big splash, and there are some smaller commercial developers on board already. Who knows where things could go over the next couple of years! For now though, companies like EA are not in Pandora's viewfinder, and Pandora's not in theirs.
Pandora does look like it's going to make a big splash, and there are some smaller commercial developers on board already. Who knows where things could go over the next couple of years! For now though, companies like EA are not in Pandora's viewfinder, and Pandora's not in theirs.
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Chip
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I totally agree.. but sometimes i am thinking if all the wonderful specs of the device don't deserve a better marketing plan.Gruso said:
And you will (not you..gruso , bu in general) say that "the small developers are taking the right amount of advantage from the specs" ..but you cannot compare this with the big bucks that a company like EA invests in game making...and time.
If you are a small developer and work very hard 6 months on a game.., day and night, i doubt it that you will release it for free. And a good game takes time... and hard work
If you look at the PSP for comparation, the psp has "weaker" specs.. but still, it has the capability to produce some pretty awesome stuff when it comes to graphics
just my humble opinion
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Firefox
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That's not strictly true - the flash and SDRAM is in a "PoP" (package-on-package) that is soldered to the top of the SoC.Chip said:
You could get a PoP with more memory in it, but I understand that they get cripplingly expensive above the size fitted to the Pandora. Or, you could dispense with the PoP and solder separate flash and SDRAM chips to the board - if there were space to do that, which there isn't.
Remember that 128MB of SDRAM is a lot more than any other handheld console - nearly double that of even the latest versions of the PSP, in fact.
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Firefox
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Theone said:And is the same as the apple Iphone. Might i add.Firefox said:
Is that a console...?
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Firefox said:Theone said:And is the same as the apple Iphone. Might i add.Firefox said:
Is that a console...?
well no not really lol, but it is a handheld device ^^. If apple had changed it slightly, it would have had potential to be used well in gaming.
Still Pandora has much more potential, the same amount of ram as the iphone, but the other specs beat it by miles.
(The actual point i was making is that the iphone has the same amount of ram that the pandora has, but that doesnt hold it back)
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icurafu
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How do you know the iPhone isn't already held back? But it has a better CPU to Memory ratio than the Pandora. That's the point of the bottleneck; it is the disproportion of one aspect against the whole.
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Would it be possible to play the games made with the Adventure Game Studio program on the pandora?
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
Chip
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No. It's a closed-source project.
cb88
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has this been discussed elsewhere? if not then assuming pandora gets the allegro library there might be a port.. but obviously the guy that wrote it has little time for porting....
from the FAQ at the OPs link Edit(since chip merged...) http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ :
Q. What did you use to make AGS?
A. The DOS version is written with DJGPP, the Windows version with MS Visual C++. Both use the Allegro library for multimedia output.
Q. Is AGS available for Linux?
A. There is an official Linux (Intel x86) port of the game engine, which can run AGS games created with v2.5 and later. You can find it on the Download page. There is currently no Linux version of the game editor - one may be created if there is enough demand for it.
Q. What about a Mac port?
A. There is a Mac port in development; you can find a beta version of it in the Technical Forum.
Q. Will you do a [Palm/BeOS/etc] port?
A. Due to me having only a limited experience with these operating systems, I will not port it to any further OS at this time. Also, due to AGS's resource requirements, it is not really practical to port it to any hand-held systems.
from the FAQ at the OPs link Edit(since chip merged...) http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ :
Q. What did you use to make AGS?
A. The DOS version is written with DJGPP, the Windows version with MS Visual C++. Both use the Allegro library for multimedia output.
Q. Is AGS available for Linux?
A. There is an official Linux (Intel x86) port of the game engine, which can run AGS games created with v2.5 and later. You can find it on the Download page. There is currently no Linux version of the game editor - one may be created if there is enough demand for it.
Q. What about a Mac port?
A. There is a Mac port in development; you can find a beta version of it in the Technical Forum.
Q. Will you do a [Palm/BeOS/etc] port?
A. Due to me having only a limited experience with these operating systems, I will not port it to any further OS at this time. Also, due to AGS's resource requirements, it is not really practical to port it to any hand-held systems.
http://www.nongnu.org/lordsawar/
lords a war! a clone of Warlords II, for linux - and with a source code. Well, although maybe we will be able to play warlords II with dosbox, hmmm.
lords a war! a clone of Warlords II, for linux - and with a source code. Well, although maybe we will be able to play warlords II with dosbox, hmmm.
mika13 said:Theone said:Epic idea
http://www.toribash.com/index.php
Toribash
that toribash looks spectacular! i cannot see the source code though, does it make any difference it's ported for linux?
oh yea the source code.... i could have sworn toribash was open source.
*looks for source code*
EDIT: darn, apparently it isnt
Well ignore that one lol. In which case, how about openarena?
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Yamara
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Theone said:Theone said:http://www.toribash.com/index.php
Toribash
oh yea the source code.... i could have sworn toribash was open source.
*looks for source code*
EDIT: darn, apparently it isnt
Why not shoot the Toribash devs an email and ask if they'd port it. If it's already in Linux, it might not be painful for them. You could add it to the list of the closed source port requests.
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