Open Source handheld!!!!!

[jleeto]

EDIT:   Okay,. so I guess I got a little over excited about this.   After doing research in the forums for the WIZ site,.. it seems that the quality of the handheld isn't very consistent.   It's manufactured by a small S Korean company and while the handheld is ambitious in design,.. in reality it's kinda' shitty.  Problems with EVERYTHING.  SD card reading/writing.  Internal memory is unstable,.. screen tearing, touch screen is shitty.       Performance is horrible on just about everything so far.  Very few games run at full speed in emulation.   Lot's of hardware and firmware problems.    Most emulators that are available are just ports from the emu's developed for an older version of the handheld.     The MAIN reason I wanted it was to run a Playstation emulator.  But the one that does exist is not very good.   Due to the hardware,.. it seems that a N64 emulator is impossible on it.    It's basically not worth the money.       That sucks as hacking the PSP to get custom firmware on it and run emulators is such a pain in the ass.

  The Pandora is supposed to be the REAL one to wait for .   But The more I think about it,..  I'm probably better off just getting one of those really  tiny XP laptops and using that as a portable gaming system to run emulators and other disc-less games off of (such as the games from GOG.com)

   I just want to run a PSX emulator on a handheld and it perform well!   Dammit!!









Check it out and maybe buy it here....
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/bfc7/

Download apps and other cool stuff from the official site here......(this version of the handheld was just released so people are busy porting apps from the older version)
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi


I shit my pants when I found this!!    Now there's no reason to jump through hoops trying to hack a PSP.   It's totally open and even has a touch screen!!   




Product Features

Pocket gaming system can emulate oodles of different old computer systems, arcade games and retro gaming consoles
Emulation Software Available for: MAME (retro arcade games), Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore VIC20/64/128, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, NeoGeo and more
Built-in support for Flash based games
High-resolution OLED touchscreen with removable stylus
Built in mic for voice recording
Stereo Speakers
Gaming controls feature a d-pad on the left with buttons/d-pad on the right and two shoulder buttons on the top
Runs Linux
Buit-in 2000mAh Lithium Polymer Battery runs the system for up to 7 hours
Charges via USB
Specifications

CPU - ARM9 533MHz (overclockable to 800MHz), H/W 3D Accelerator
LCD - 71.12mm(2.8inch) QVGA OLED Touch Screen
RAM - 64MB
Built-in Storage - 1GB
Expansion Port - SD/SDHC
O/S - Linux
USB - 2.0 High Speed
Connecting Port - 24Pin (Other port supported)
Battery - 2000mAh Lithium-ion Polymer
Charging System - AC Power / USBPort
Audio - Built-in Stereo Speakers and 3.5mm headphone jack
Size - 121mm(w) x 61mm(h) x 18mm(d)
Video Formats Supported - MPEG4, Xvid, DivxAVI
Audio Formats Supported - OGG, WAV
Video Resolution - Max480*272 30fps
Bit Rate - Image: Max 2500kbps, Sound: Max 384kbps
Subtitles - smi File
Built in Flash Light 8.0 Support

[Bad Sector]

Actually you want to check out Open Pandora. Its a handheld designed by the GP2X community and its hardware specs are currently the best that can be found in a handheld device. There are some videos shown Quake 3, Cube and other 3D games running in full speed there.

The specs:
    * ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
    * 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
    * PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
    * 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
    * Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
    * Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
    * Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
    * 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
    * Around 10+ Hours battery life

[jleeto]

Actually you want to check out Open Pandora. Its a handheld designed by the GP2X community and its hardware specs are currently the best that can be found in a handheld device. There are some videos shown Quake 3, Cube and other 3D games running in full speed there.

  The problem with the Pandora is that there won't even be any for sale untill next Spring.   The Wiz seems to be able to do most of the same things in terms of gaming and emulators,..except it has no keyboard and a smaller screen,.. plus it's available now.

[Bad Sector]

Well compared to the specs you mentioned above, OP has 4x the RAM, more speed, OpenGL ES 2.0 support (the GPU is the same used in iPhone 3GS and has support for programmable pipeline), dual analog sticks and 3 more hours estimated battery life.

On the other hand, GP2X is available right now. But keep in mind that many GP2X developers have moved to OpenPandora using the developer "pre-release" boards, so the available software will be lower and once OP is released to the public, GP2X will have even less people working on it.

Personally i'm just waiting for OP to be released .

[jleeto]

Well compared to the specs you mentioned above, OP has 4x the RAM, more speed, OpenGL ES 2.0 support (the GPU is the same used in iPhone 3GS and has support for programmable pipeline), dual analog sticks and 3 more hours estimated battery life.

On the other hand, GP2X is available right now. But keep in mind that many GP2X developers have moved to OpenPandora using the developer "pre-release" boards, so the available software will be lower and once OP is released to the public, GP2X will have even less people working on it.

Personally i'm just waiting for OP to be released .

  but waiting is soooooooooooo hard!!

[Kado]

Personally i'm just waiting for OP to be released .

Same.  I can't wait for this to come out~!  And it'd be so neat to compile my games on it.
Hopefully I can find a lot of good Linux games to play on it as well.  So far I mainly just play Abuse. ^^;

[コービン]

So far I mainly just play Abuse. ^^;

I remember Abuse, that game kicked ass.