Best demoplatform for your €?
category: general [glöplog]
you wasted 300 euros on not getting one?
Ah forget it. I think my money never get there. They should be by now.
But don't ask my methods. I didn't wanted to use a credit card.
Fuck.
But don't ask my methods. I didn't wanted to use a credit card.
Fuck.
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I'm looking forward to the 'pandora library' which in the end will consist out of unfinished opensource programs and a handful of emulators.
I hint sarcasm :) But I think actually, emulators, open source apps and general non-commercial amaturish prods is the whole point of Pandora. Much like the GP2x.
It's been designed as a homebrew platform, not so much a commercial game console like the PSP and DS. I don't even think they can be compared to the Pandora in those terms.
As long as someone ports a web browser and VLC I'll be happy... a PDF reader would be nice too.
zeroshift just shown me this impressive PDA like thingy:
http://www.umpcfever.com/news/?postid=2225
It costs less than €150.
http://www.umpcfever.com/news/?postid=2225
It costs less than €150.
has anyone tried this one ?
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~170€ (I heard)
i don't really see the need for something like pandora or gp32(x). I bought the gp32 back when it was fresh, coded on it a while - and found it crappy. I'd rather go for a netbook or something similar - more useful :-)
yep, the gp32/gp2x were crappy, indeed. arm926 just does not cut it.
the Cortex however is quite a beast, so is the C64+ DSP.
ARM assembler coding is so much fun (I hate x86 asm:)). C64+ assembler is not but they have a very good C/C++ compiler (which also has good intrinsics support).
The graphics chip is capable of running stuff like Quake3 @40fps in 1280x720.
Power consumption: 1-2 watts :-)
the Cortex however is quite a beast, so is the C64+ DSP.
ARM assembler coding is so much fun (I hate x86 asm:)). C64+ assembler is not but they have a very good C/C++ compiler (which also has good intrinsics support).
The graphics chip is capable of running stuff like Quake3 @40fps in 1280x720.
Power consumption: 1-2 watts :-)
http://www.igep-platform.com/ <- much better than Beagleboard for €10 or €20 more.
TI DSPs are teh dark side.
There's also this:
http://www.embedinfo.com/English/Product/devkit8000.asp
which is absurdly cheap (£170+£30 p&p to UK) with a 7" 800x480 touchscreen and a million cables.
http://www.embedinfo.com/English/Product/devkit8000.asp
which is absurdly cheap (£170+£30 p&p to UK) with a 7" 800x480 touchscreen and a million cables.
(same board as above but less memory)
I have a similar one here (from Logic PD, also with an LCD) but it was a b*tch to set up (getting the right kernel patches, installing Linux (almost) from scratch. took quite a lot of my (spare) time).
Now I want to give it another try with a Beagleboard "compatible" board. The beagle seems to have the best community/software support for Omap3..
trc: yeah they are. but powerful, they are too. I have a synth with a VC5502 DSP (kind of like the predecessor to the C64+), @300Mhz which can easily do 24 voices + 2 (good quality) effects (Korg Radias)
The C64+ could be a nice co-processor for softsynths, I guess :)
( source: http://www.dspdesignline.com/198800216;jsessionid=YHEBNUD4H5SYUQSNDLQSKHSCJUNN2JVN?printableArticle=true )
Now I want to give it another try with a Beagleboard "compatible" board. The beagle seems to have the best community/software support for Omap3..
trc: yeah they are. but powerful, they are too. I have a synth with a VC5502 DSP (kind of like the predecessor to the C64+), @300Mhz which can easily do 24 voices + 2 (good quality) effects (Korg Radias)
The C64+ could be a nice co-processor for softsynths, I guess :)
( source: http://www.dspdesignline.com/198800216;jsessionid=YHEBNUD4H5SYUQSNDLQSKHSCJUNN2JVN?printableArticle=true )