Comments on: Pandora Units Revealed

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:36:40 +0000

Can’t wait to see Quake2 on this. Quake2 has so many graphics porting paths that it is a far superior engine than Quake1, Quake3, Doom3, and Doom4. There should be more overhaul work so everything works through the Quake2 engine. It should be the model engine of all games no matter what.

By: TrashyMG

TrashyMG — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:10:21 +0000

I don't believe anything is Proprietary software wise. Actually all the source code specific to the Pandora is available http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi

By: sinister13

sinister13 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:29:33 +0000

Does Pandora contain any proprietary software on board (say, drivers)? I’d definitely buy it if its software is fully free. Very nice piece of hardware.

By: nod51

nod51 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:20:08 +0000

There is a full USB2 (not USB 1.1) port you can put whatever you want on it.

By: TrashyMG

TrashyMG — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:13:05 +0000

Oh and mine been pre-ordered for a while.

By: TrashyMG

TrashyMG — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:11:54 +0000

Hardware been finalized, there is no WiMax.

By: SlickMcRunfast

SlickMcRunfast — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:29:36 +0000

I hope they build WiMax into the thing.

By: nod51

nod51 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:45:40 +0000

Ordered mine about 6 hours after they started, thought I might have it by Christmas, now I am hoping by end of May. I was hoping to have a small game ready to port by then but other things have come up.

I have a GP2X but other than hacking touchscreen support into Ultima 7, which turned out to not work well anyhow, I have not done any development with it. I do know the GP2X has a custom SDL version (mainly key mappings) but the Pandora will support the standard SDL. If the game you want to play uses SDL_*, does not use OpenGL (but can use OpenGL-ES), and is open source there is a good chance a compile later (on the Pandora itself if you want) you will be playing the game. There is more details about games/hardware that work in the wiki which I am too lazy to look up right now.