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Pandora - Portable Linux Games Console Coming Soon
Saturday April 5, 2008
Pandora - Linux Portable Games ConsoleWell my quest for a low cost portable Linux box (as opposed to the desktop PC which I now have) continues, and Open Pandora looks a very interesting open portable box with these features:

* ARM® Cortex™-A8 CPU running Linux
* 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colors touchscreen LCD
* OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* Wifi 802.11b/g
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* High Speed USB Port
* 128MB of DDR SDRAM plus 256MB of internal flash memory.

All this selling for about £200 (UK) or $330 which makes it very attractive. A touch screen, a fast ARM chip, the OpenGL 3D hardware and of course WiFi Access make this pretty advanced. Running Debian Linux it should make an ideal open games console. Whether any major games company will want to develop for it is another matter given the relative ease of copying games so perhaps it's better suited to acting as a client to server based subscription games as well as running emulations like Mame. With the touchscreen - similar to that used in SatNav systems, I could see this having a lot of non-game uses.

quality of game can show it can NEVER win PSP or GB unless they improve

Boredness wrote:quality of game can show it can NEVER win PSP or GB unless they improve

its open source any1 can make games for this console, oso can emulate psp, nintendo ds and old emulator games

zamoth wrote:

Boredness wrote:quality of game can show it can NEVER win PSP or GB unless they improve

its open source any1 can make games for this console, oso can emulate psp, nintendo ds and old emulator games

That's why i find it stupid

Boredness wrote:

zamoth wrote:

Boredness wrote:quality of game can show it can NEVER win PSP or GB unless they improve

its open source any1 can make games for this console, oso can emulate psp, nintendo ds and old emulator games

That's why i find it stupid

i dun understand y u find open source stupis btw its ur point of view.

in this consol oso can run gimp, fire fox and open office for linux can work like mini portable laptop ^^

I dont see much people using it in SG

Boredness wrote:I dont see much people using it in SG

still new just w8 a bit more time to companies star to make games for this console ^^ i think got future and wif some modifications i think its posible play maple lol

Seem abit cool abit this console. but i don't think much ppl will go of it
cause on my point of view it's sumthign new that ppl don't wanna waste $ on
Unless they are a famous brands eg SONY, Nintendo etc u knw what i mean

Slayer369 wrote:Seem abit cool abit this console. but i don't think much ppl will go of it
cause on my point of view it's sumthign new that ppl don't wanna waste $ on
Unless they are a famous brands eg SONY, Nintendo etc u knw what i mean

ya its tru its a bit expensive but remember tats not just a gaming console cuz u can use like a mini and very portable laptop

zamoth wrote:

Slayer369 wrote:Seem abit cool abit this console. but i don't think much ppl will go of it
cause on my point of view it's sumthign new that ppl don't wanna waste $ on
Unless they are a famous brands eg SONY, Nintendo etc u knw what i mean

ya its tru its a bit expensive but remember tats not just a gaming console cuz u can use like a mini and very portable laptop

Ya i know, but i better get a lap top then this.