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Yopy Running Game Boy And Heretic

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cute-as-a-button dept.

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.

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  1. Compaq iPaq by gatzke · · Score: 5

    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....

  2. Re:W Windows? by 1010011010 · · Score: 5

    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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  3. Finally! by Tom7 · · Score: 5

    Finally, a portable way to play Gameboy Games!!

  4. Hacking it for M$ Windows by b0z · · Score: 5
    Well, since it's common for people to want to hack their devices that run other OS's to run linux, can we run windows on this thing? I sometimes get the GSOD on my palm pilot, I'm really looking forward to being able to expand to a BSOD on another piece of equipment. It would enable me to complain about microsoft anywhere that I can't take my laptop to. I can be on a hike in the middle of the mountains, and be able to yell, "GOD DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!!!" when I get a blue screen on my pda and get to hear the echos going throughout the valleys.

    On a side note, slashdot and Ron Bacardi do not mix very well.

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