Pandora pre-orders go live - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 2nd Oct 2008, 10:49

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10...ders-go-live/1

The Pandora, the open-source handheld gaming platform, has just become available for pre-order and is selling out fast.

Jordan Wise · 2nd Oct 2008, 11:04

Sometimes I wish I wasn't a student.... it'll be June 09 when I can afford one of these

Firehed · 2nd Oct 2008, 11:57

That looks like quite possibly the clumsiest handheld device I've ever seen. And it's not like there's a limit on pre-orders (maybe on units that you can expect by some date, but not overall) so "selling out fast" is... completely meaningless.

DougEdey · 2nd Oct 2008, 12:12

I'm going to stick an OS on it, Netbook? PAH They're wayyyy too big

Daniel114 · 2nd Oct 2008, 12:31

Full speed Amiga emulation!!! My God, if it wasn't so ugly I'd be all over this

p3n · 2nd Oct 2008, 14:29

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Originally Posted by Daniel114

Full speed Amiga emulation!!! My God, if it wasn't so ugly I'd be all over this

Does anyone really use an emulator for more than a month? Apart from good old PC games (full throttle/DOTT/Monkey island) my emu experience has been mostly anticlimactic about revisiting old games!

proxess · 2nd Oct 2008, 14:32

I don't see whats it with the looks. Your meant to play it, not admire it. Admire women!

Daniel114 · 2nd Oct 2008, 15:21

But I want to be able to play Amiga games for a month on a pretty machine

proxess · 2nd Oct 2008, 15:53

Also, does WINE run on this? some classic games could run on this.

Vash-HT · 2nd Oct 2008, 16:14

I don't see why people say this is ugly, it looks like a DS with a keyboard instead of a second screen. Yeah its obviously thicker but it doesn't look huge or anything. Looking at the pics on their site it actually looks pretty comfortable to use, the DS lite hurt my hands playing some games cause it was so small (metroid hunters...), so if this is a little wider it would make me happy.

hozkinz · 2nd Oct 2008, 20:08

tbh, this does look interesting, im actually looking into buying one, something ive never done with anything that isnt mainstream before

DXR_13KE · 3rd Oct 2008, 00:13

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Originally Posted by proxess

Also, does WINE run on this? some classic games could run on this.

shamefully not, this is an arm cpu, not an x86 cpu, it may run dos-box games, if someone ports dos-box....

this console has some nice projects with it, like a minigame portal were you can download minigames.... and other cool stuff.... and i think it rocks major ass, it looks almost like a DS lite, but bigger.

metarinka · 3rd Oct 2008, 03:52

I wish someone would brew up a graphing calculator emulator that had a better screen resolution and crunching power than anything ti-83 offered.

It's a good platform but TI has grown so lazy with no competition in the graphing calculator market the ti-83 has been around for over 8 years with very little change besides USB and extra memory, yet they charge the same for the early 90's B&W low res screen -_-

big tangent

2nd Oct 2008, 10:49	#1
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2nd Oct 2008, 16:14	#10
Vash-HT Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chicago Posts: 193	I don't see why people say this is ugly, it looks like a DS with a keyboard instead of a second screen. Yeah its obviously thicker but it doesn't look huge or anything. Looking at the pics on their site it actually looks pretty comfortable to use, the DS lite hurt my hands playing some games cause it was so small (metroid hunters...), so if this is a little wider it would make me happy.

2nd Oct 2008, 20:08	#11
hozkinz What's a Dremel? Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1	tbh, this does look interesting, im actually looking into buying one, something ive never done with anything that isnt mainstream before

3rd Oct 2008, 03:52	#13
metarinka I am a Dremel Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,623	I wish someone would brew up a graphing calculator emulator that had a better screen resolution and crunching power than anything ti-83 offered. It's a good platform but TI has grown so lazy with no competition in the graphing calculator market the ti-83 has been around for over 8 years with very little change besides USB and extra memory, yet they charge the same for the early 90's B&W low res screen -_- big tangent __________________ project: Orbitoid project: Orbitoid discussion Project: Angry-9 the WWII radio