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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.
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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Which is good, because the W Window System that the Yopy runs is not the predecessor to X. It's an entirely new project.
So while interesting, the history lesson has nothing to do with the Yopy. (Just figured I'd try to stamp out that meme before it germinated too much).
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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...
- X howto -- mentions W
/. post Turns out "W" was the successor to "V". So, the successor to "X" should by "Y", which makes perfect sense on several levels (unfortunately, there's no letter that's pronounced "please god let it die").- "Kay" has some W links.
- here is an interesting story about IBM, W, X, CMU and AFS.
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Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
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Just search Google under the search term 'W" ;-)
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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....
And he's not kidding. It really was the predecessor to the X Windows System. At least X wasn't named "W++". "W" was originally a black and white 1-bit display, although color was added later. Looks like the Yopy has color. There's also the Vinyl Window System, but it's not available for the Yopy.
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Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Finally, a portable way to play Gameboy Games!!
On a side note, slashdot and Ron Bacardi do not mix very well.
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