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Yopy Running Game Boy And Heretic
Usquebaugh sent us a fairly impressive image -- this site shows several screenshots of the Yopy (the Samsung Linux-based PDA that we've covered a bit in the past). It's pretty similiar to most color handhelds, although the screenshots show it running Heretic and a Game Boy emulator.
These guys are missing the whole point of PDAs. If you want to play games, buy a damn Game Boy. PDAs weren't invented to be a replacement for your computer. Adding color is pointless, all they need are basic functions like schedules and address books.
Palm Computing has nearly "disposable" hardware; at least, I won't be crushed if a $150 M100 gets crushed...
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This is the first time I have looked at a screenshot of the Yopy, and noticed the interface looks oddly like CE 2.1 on Palm-sized PC. Any particular reason they couldn't make their own interface? Honestly, the first time I saw RedHat long ago defaulting to that Windows ripoff, I couldn't understand why. And now this.
Now if I could get a Game Boy emulator running on my iPaq, I'll be held over until the game expansion for it.
The Game Boy emulator for CE shouldn't be a problem to port to the iPaq, but the gameplay for things like it and MAME-CE are very limited due to a serious flaw in the hardware (which will bite you no matter what OS you're running on the iPaq): The iPaq doesn't allow the joypad and any of the buttons to be pressed simultaneously, meaning that you can forget moving and jumping/firing at the same time. Pretty big limitation of you plan to use the GB emulator or MAME-CE, which works otherwise. Hopefully iPaq will get this right on their next models. FWIW, the Cassiopeias don't have this problem
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Doesn't seem like Compaq really cares about the issue. Here's the response that Compaq has been mailing some of their customers today:
Seems kind of odd that they would mention that there was discussion about this issue on "non-Compaq message boards," as if all those posts are somehow illegitimate and not worthy of consideration. Oh well...
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What is the resolution of that screen, 640x480? It just seems that there is just too much detail for a handheld.
Of course, if it is legitimate I can add wireless networking and use it as a remote X display. Heaven (or a mediocre simulation thereof) is at hand?
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What's the resolution on the Yopy?
I thought that little camera on its side was pointing at a decent flatscreen monitor that's connected to a computer actaully running heretic. Or its probably just an honest mistake, like that Jimi Hendrix compilation album where the cover photo shows him playing right-handed.
Is that circular thing on the end a digital camera? If it is then it would seem that it is sitting in front of a mirror taking a photo of itself.
Anyone know the price this thing is aming for?
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An alternative is of course to open one of those images in your favourite image manipulation (eg The Gimp) program and to then flip it... (may feel easier than the mirror stuff)... It won't look right at all.
Another thing is that the Yopy actually has those 2 round buttons on the RIGHT side on all images I've seen of it!
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The iPaq is way to pricey for me too. Check out the Helio, which goes for $150, and runs Linux. A much more accessible device for a Linux PDA than the iPaq. And yes, it's actually shipping.
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One of these days I am going to need to buy a PDA for the express purpose of playing Doom. Then my life will be complete! As you might imagine, I have a very sad life.
Or once you join the rest of us in the real world during those times that your boss is going on and on and on and since all s/he can think a handheld is good for is taking notes they will think you are listening. Now what I really want to see is screenshots of "the one true game" yes of course that would be Nethack!!!!!!
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Check out DOOM for the Digital Camera, something that was on Slashdot a while ago. Pretty cool, considering the camera has better controls on it. This means you can download and play HOOVER.WAD on your trip to the Hoover Dam. "Who's that guy with the shotgun? I think that was the state trooper. I can't explain that red thing in the distance, though!"
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An AS/400 system uses the PowerPC processor, as do recent MVS systems, but this does not mean you can run MacOS software on them.
These machines are likely to become quite interesting when you can put something like 64MB-128MB of storage on them, but it is not obvious that software that runs on the iPaq will necessarily run on the Yopy merely because both computers have the same CPU.
For instance, if the iPaq is doing graphics via X, and the Yopy is running something like the "embedded Qt" or "FLTK lite, sans X," the programs that will work on both will merely be the daemons, and not anything graphical.
Frankly, the fact that WinCE has been a "bloated" platform (certainly compared to PalmOS) is a WONDERFUL thing; that encourages having vast quantities of RAM/other storage, which is very nice if you want to put some semblance of a fullscale Unix onto it...
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I have an iPAQ running linux now. while useability as a pda is still very lacking. It has got to be one of the coolest things ever. I have had quake running over the network and exported to the ipaqs display, really impressed the other geeks here at work. As far as them shipping that is a little bit of a strech. If you shop around you may find one but almost nobody has them in stock. This is obviously due to the coolness of the product and the lack of good prodution runs.
If you have the $500 for a pda though I would definatly go for it.
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Am I the only one that noticed the Heretic logos and other text are mirror-reversed? What's going on here?
As much as I hate raining on anyone's parade, this sure raises GIMP/Photoshop/whatever image-manipulation warning flags... dammit.
Say it isn't so! (If anyone has a good explanation for this, please prove me wrong...)
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I love it, not only does it run linux but it is designed for south paws who write like Leonardo da Vinci. They may be limiting themselves to a niche market but im going to get one. (I think i will unsolder and flip the connections on my CRT windings just to be ready for when they finally release this).
Windows CE PDAs (such as the Casio E100 and E105) have been running Color Gameboy emulator and Doom for over a year... and since Heretic is Doom with different maps and texture, there's nothing so hard about it.
I'm sorry but they'll need to show up more if they want me to be excited about a Linux PDA...
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I just got back from the Boston/MIT LUG meeting. http://www.blu.org/ They had Jim Gettys talk about linux on the iPaq.
Unlike the Yopy, the iPaq is actually shipping.
Unlike the Yopy, the iPaq has open development with rapid release. They are using the 2.4pre kernels, and might be fully supported in the main kernel tree when 2.4 is out.
The interface is open, and supports USB, serial, compact flash adapter ($40), and PC card (PCMCIA) adapter ($140). The PC card adapter has a battery that doubles the life (and the size almost) of the beast. This allows use of the 1 GB IBM CF microdrive, 2 GB PC card HD, wireless 10 Mbit PC cars, ethernet pc cards, etc.
USB will eventually be used for wired network, but no keyboard/mouse support.
They recently figured out how to restore CE, so you can go back and forth between win/lin.
The Helix guys here are working on porting parts of GNOME. Usability has a ways to go, but it looks sweet.
Check www.handhelds.org. You can use a guest account and log into one of the machine and do development. (Java and other things are already running)
I was amazed at how quickly development is coming along.
Only $500 bucks....
Finally, a portable way to play Gameboy Games!!
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