What Is Possible On 256mb Ram?

[x68000]

RAM has just officially doubled, so what can now be possible which was impossible on just 128mb RAM?

 

[phrosty]

high-res textures! maybe hq2x or the like in finalburn.

 

[JayFoxRox]

- Keeping more parts of the rom in the memory for emulators
- Running more apps at once
- Have more textures in the memory
- Giving the OS more room to do its work
...

 

[Klepto]

It will make KDE a viable option. This is great news. I want to do something nice for the Pandora team, any suggestions?

 

[fiveseven]

More tabs in a web browser! That's going to prove useful, especially if I start browsing the forums on the Pandora.

 

[Kyo]

rewind for more modern emulators, better multitasking capability

 

[Kimundi]

You can run everything you could with 128 MB...

Twice!

( )

 

[sebt3]

You can run everything you could with 128 MB...

Twice!

( )

lol

Because having 2 kernel scheduling the same CPU is the way to go

 

[NearTao]

You can run everything you could with 128 MB...

Twice!

( )

We especially need a pandora VM inside our pandora.

 

[TheGrandPubaa]

In general, applications that rely on heavy ram usage should benefit well. I'm thinking of something like GIMP in this instance, since it's pretty ram hungry. Ooh, this is gonna be great.

 

[Vince2501]

Dreamcast emulation?

 

[jakshep2]

frets on fire is now a possibility.

 

[Rivroner]

Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time in High Resolution

 

[plowman]

It will make KDE a viable option. This is great news. I want to do something nice for the Pandora team, any suggestions?

Foot massages? Seriously though, even if a lot of the classic emulation stuff would be smooth as glass in 128M, the "use it like a portable computer" stuff should be seriously enhanced. Can't wait.

 

[x68000]

standard res will do me!

 

[Spray190]

surely it would put a decent build of OO firmly on the table if it could be ported

 

[Patrick R Ludvigsen]

COMPIZ FUSION, YUM YUM

 

[cb88]

a port of Go-oo (openoffice development not SUN's version) might be better they claim it is more optimised and docx support is better also better chinese support etc... gstreamer improved

http://go-oo.org/discover/

openoffice 1.x is already ported... 2.x is not afaik and neither is 3.x

Edit i was mistake partial (at least ) port done of openoffice 2.3 http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Latest-Port-of-O...td15155776.html

http://porting.openoffice.org/

 

[mcobit]

QUOTE
frets on fire is now a possibility.


I thought of hacking together a "frets on fire on tour" Controller as soon as i get a pandora. When everything works it will fit under the Pandora and connect directly to the usbport on the back.

If anyone would port this software to fit the hardware of Pandora it would be great. (I personally can't code but solder together something.)

 

[cb88]

Frets on fire is not ideal for the pandora... it was never really the ram that was a problem afaik it is that it uses python and needs a fast computer and GPU not to lag i have 1.8ghz 512mb ram and a geforce2 w/ 64mb vram and it still lags