When I Actually Have The Pandora In My Hands...

[Chock]

"When I Actually Have The Pandora In My Hands..."

"... of course I will put it back on the table and read the manual first !"
- Pinocchio

 

[DynaMight]

...I'm just going to be in a state of shock. I'll look at it, turn it on and won't actually believe what I'm seeing. It's been such a long wait (no fault of the devs, of course), but it's gonna be a surreal experience.

And then you find out it's DOA

 

[fade]

Hmm. I think ill probably just stare at it for a few moments in a mixture of disbelief and shock, and then drop to my knees platoon style sobbing *finally*.... *finaaalllyyyyy!!!*

 

[HackModford]

I'll probably find it outside the door run in a mad rush to get inside as fast as I can. Unbox the thing huriddly and then try to turn it on... But find that the battery is dead. I'll then probably have to waite a day to find a USB port to charge it (no computer at home) Then turn it on stare at the loading screen and start to quietly sob... Then I'll go... now what? (There proabably will be no games on it)

After that I'll start downloading emulators blah blah blah....

And finally once I'm all settled in I'll grab my old Mac USB keyboard plug that in and go to plug it into my 15" TV and discover that I'm missing the TV adaptor...

I'm going to cry with stress realief!

 

[Chip]

I will inevitably brick it within the first 24 hours of having it.
The next 24h will be spent figuring out how to unbrick it.
The cycle will then repeat.
Doesn't Pandora have instant magical self-debricking capabilities?There's nothing magic about it. No matter what you do to the flash storage, the boot loader will always allow you to boot from an SD card and re-flash. Since the boot loader is protected, you will always have an "out" in case something goes wrong with an update.

 

[atomicthumbs]

There's nothing magic about it. No matter what you do to the flash storage, the boot loader will always allow you to boot from an SD card and re-flash. Since the boot loader is protected, you will always have an "out" in case something goes wrong with an update.

i.e. magic

 

[White Demon]

...I'm just going to be in a state of shock. I'll look at it, turn it on and won't actually believe what I'm seeing. It's been such a long wait (no fault of the devs, of course), but it's gonna be a surreal experience.

Wrong. It will very a very REAL experience.

DAMN REAL.

 

[chole]

There's nothing magic about it. No matter what you do to the flash storage, the boot loader will always allow you to boot from an SD card and re-flash. Since the boot loader is protected, you will always have an "out" in case something goes wrong with an update.

This doesn't sound too different from, say, the Zaurus SL-5x00 series, where you just put a kernel and a ramdisk image onto the root of your Compact Flash card and hold a couple buttons while doing a hard reset. From what you're saying, I'm inferring that the difference is that upon each boot you see the boot loader (id est, something like grub) running on the device and that it gives you the explicit option of booting internally or from SD. It this correct?

And if so then can I theme the boot loader, heh?

(Oh, btw, sorry for thread hijacking if that's an issue, I've been lurking so long that I forgot the TOS here already!)

 

[Chip]

This doesn't sound too different from, say, the Zaurus SL-5x00 series, where you just put a kernel and a ramdisk image onto the root of your Compact Flash card and hold a couple buttons while doing a hard reset. From what you're saying, I'm inferring that the difference is that upon each boot you see the boot loader (id est, something like grub) running on the device and that it gives you the explicit option of booting internally or from SD. It this correct?

And if so then can I theme the boot loader, heh?
It's actually more like the Zaurus where you have to hold a button or two to change the boot path. I don't know if the boot loader is "themeable" or not.

 

[Megagun]

Since I'll be a second or third batch Pandora user, I'll already have an SD card preloaded with a lot of stuff...
I was also a rather late GP2x user (got a MK2), and for that too I prepared an SD card days before the device arrived..

I'll probably look at the menus, options, picture/video/ebook default applications, and the manual first..
Then I'll quickly try out the 'most prominent' games and apps...
After that, I'll probably play The Ur-Quan Masters again (played it through like 10 times already) and when I am done with that.. well... Depends on the games that have been made already for it..

Perhaps I'll just listen to music, connect to IRC, browse the web and play videos on it.. until there's a game that manages to eat away my time without me knowing it.

What I know for sure though is that it's going to cause me a few sleepless nights, just like what happened when I got my GP2x...

 

[whiskthecat]

I must say the funnest part of a homebrew device is checking the software updates daily, alongside the initial awesomeness of unboxing.

 

[fiveseven]

Having just seen the unofficial plastic model, I now have a new first thing I'm going to try after unboxing:

See if it really does fit in my pocket!

If it does, I'm going to be spending alot of time trying to rearrange my phone, wallet and keys to make room for another permanent addition to my pockets.

On the bricking front, I realise it's unbrickable, but it might take me a while to figure out how to do it, and if I want to flash with angstrom, ubuntu, or another OS.

 

[fischju2000]

I'll have to get a feel for it...what it can do, what it can't do, what I can make it do (that it's not happy about) and such so I know the limits. Then it's off to the races.

 

[kin]

Gonna feel the weight, feel the smoothness of the surface, smell it...
SLightly open up de clam... testing the hinge. Tapping buttons.

Read the manual Page 1: Charging the battery

 

[Eversmile]

I'll open it up, pull it out of the box and try to turn it on. I will hear the boot noise and go "Oh wow!" and a big grin will probably stretch across my face. Then I'll hopefully be suprised by the 8 seconds ish boot time being even quicker than I expected. I will then check which software it has on it, use firefox 3.0 to search for interesting new software (Independant of a PC!) and put them all on my 16GB HCSD card! Then, the next day I am at college, I will shove it under my friends noses who thought this was all a scam/sham.

Well, after I showed them the wiki FAQ, they were like "And.. um... Where do we order from? Heh..." and at which point I just went "No where. Wait till second batch!"

To the guy who said about USB charging, it works with all standard PSP chargers too, and I am sure it will come with a wall charger.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

I will furiously masturbate on it.

 

[MDave]

I will probably have someone peering over my shoulder to see what it looks like, and dieing to have a hold of it. If its a glossy material, I'll try my hardest not to out finger smudges on it, like when I got my iPhone, constantly cleaning it from the slightest smudge. I gave up that habit after several months :lol:

I will furiously masturbate on it.

You've got another pair of hands? :lol:

Gonna feel the weight, feel the smoothness of the surface, smell it...
SLightly open up de clam... testing the hinge. Tapping buttons.

Read the manual Page 1: Charging the battery

I'll have to get a feel for it...what it can do, what it can't do, what I can make it do (that it's not happy about) and such so I know the limits. Then it's off to the races.

Ok now this seriously sounds like foreplay :lol:

 

[joa]

I look forward to it all up and running with directories all in place / roms etc...

Then i'll sit and play through those retro platform games late into the night until my hands are sore

 

[audovoice]

I am going to make a .jar file and fill it with ALL THE PORN
OF MANKIND!!! And then give it to Pandora and giggle as she tries to open the archive.

 

[GregorR]

In all likelihood, I'm going to open it, wait for all the evils of the Earth to spill out, then play some lame builtin game about hope.