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Brian T Snail

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I've done a little research and am really interested in the pandora solely as a gaming device.


How hard is it to operate out of the box, emulator- wise?


I know very little about Linux or similar OS's, how difficult is it to start, or any good books/links to get cracking?


Thanks very much in advance
 
No actually linux experience required. If a full desktop is more than you need there is a very simple "minimenu" interface which is nothing but a grid of friendly icons.


The extent of what you really need to know to use it is how to create folders on an SD card and how to copy files off the internet into those directories. Knowing how to click icons and type your password comes up sometimes too :P


Some emulators require a "bios" file. For legal reasons you're on our own in obtaining one, so a little experience with google is useful. You'd be surprised (or maybe not) at the number of people that get stumped by this.


In the unlikely event that things go wrong someone trying to help you may ask you to open a command line terminal and type some stuff, but that shouldn't be needed except in rare cases, and if it does we try to work through it carefully so as not to cause confusion. :)
 
It also depends a bit on what you want to be emulating.


NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, TurboGFX, and similar not-too-obscure consoles - Simple as pie. You need to be able to create a folder and drop files in it, and this folder-creating and file-dropping might be done on your ordinary familiar computer (need no linux experience)


NeoGeo, Arcade stuff - Might need a bit more laying on hands


Your favourite old computer: BBC, Apple II, Acorn, Amiga, Atari ST, DOS/Early windows - Might be complicated in the interfacing, i.e. in getting the emulator and the Pandora to agree on stuff like where the disks are and what characters are on the keyboard. Also, might need a bit of familiarity with the emulated machine (I.e. in order to run some old DOS games on QEMU, you might need to do some DOS-specific configuration).


For most of these, there is ample help to be gotten here. There is a pack of cheat sheets for the most common emulators, and lots of people experienced in hoop-jumping to ask. Ask, and ye shall receive :)
 
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