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Photo-Centric Handheld Can Be A Doom Console
An anonymous reader writes "Jobo AG originally fielded its $550 Giga Vu Pro as a tool for digital photography buffs, but this small embedded computer, running a Linux 2.4 kernel, has much broader potential, according to an article at LinuxDevices.com. A free software development kit for the device is now available at sourceforge.net, along with instructions for loading software into flash memory, a tutorial on turning the device into a Doom game console, and a contributions page for those willing to share their new apps."
but does it run ie? ;)
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Does it have Tetris?
or Doom 3?
It seems like the perfect platform for running some emulator software and storing hundreds of ROMs of classic games.
I can build a Doom console using off-the-shelf parts.
You will need:
(1) Game Boy Advance ($70 for the regular kind, $80 for the SP)
(1) Copy of Doom ($30)
And once you're done, you still have some $400 that you can spend on a photo-centric handheld!
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you can get a laptop running linux http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product _id=3163026.
You can play doom on it as well, and use lot of other things too.
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
So instead of the standard "Does it run Linux?" question, we should really be asking, "Will it play Doom?"
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Or just get a GP32. Pleanty of devkits for it (the community games and software for it FAR outnumber the commercial ones), and you can play extra WADs. And play movies of course.
Still waiting for a hurd console running GNU/Hurd...
Didn't someone have MAME running on some other camera before?
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
Oof. Better wear cargo pants with reinforced pockets.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
From one page buried in the jobo website...
- 40 or 60 GB hard disk
- Card slot for CF I/II and Microdrive (all other flash memory cards via JOBO Adapter SECF61)
- internal Li-Ion-Battery
- 3,8" Color TFT, QVGA, adjustable brightness
- Touch Screen
- WiFi compatible (optional CF-Wi-Fi card required)
- USB 2.0 connection to PC/Mac (high-speed and full-speed)
- TV-Out (incl. video cable) for PAL/NTSC
Photo-Features
- Verify-Function
- RAW-Format of Canon, Nikon and Kodak PRO (decoding and displaying)
- Decodes 6 Megapix.JPG 1 Sec.
- Download of 5-8 GB with one battery charge
- Thumbnail-Mode with 12 thumbs per page
- Power Zoom-Function: pixel per pixel presentable
- Channel view RGB or B&W
- Histogram
- Dust-Detector
- PictBridge direct connection to printer via USB
- Editing mode for exif data (Keywords)
Extras
- Download of 5-8 GB using one charge of battery
- Saves all usual files (RAW, JPG, MP3, doc, xls, ppt, etc.)
- Down and Upload
- File management (Touch Screen)
- Firmware Upgrade via Internet
- Displays hard disk status (free/occupied memory)
- Displays battery status
- External hard disk to PC/Mac
- Owner information and copyright notice
Multimedia
- MP3-Player, incl. loudspeaker and earphones
- Video Play: MPEG 1, 2, 4 & DivX 3, 4 , 5
- Video playing time: 120 min.
Accessories:
- menu in D, GB, F, I, NL, SW
- GIGA Vu PRO (Dimesions 145 x 107 x 38 m, 420 g)
- protective cover
- A/C adapter
- USB cable
- maual
- video cable
- earphones
- Optional: battery-pack and car-adapter
If wireless, video-out, etc... work under linux I can well stop drooling after iPods. (Of course I think Apple is planning similar stuff for next generation gadgets.)
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is the most important problem. This restricts applications of this device to custom software development (e.g. a gadget portable that gets some work done that's specific to a company). A platform for deployment of custom mobile apps requiring large hard disk space and image manipulation capabilities. In line with this, their SDK should permit and encourage development with dynamic languages and repid prototyping and development tools like Python/PyGTK. In addition, they should have an desktop emulator.
Most of you only think of games. Like the Germans, I'd rather focus on the photography aspect. Hmm...
Subway Rider 1 playing Doom on his invisible PDA - "Where are you?"
Subway Rider 1 - "Where are you?, God Dammit! I'm gonna getcha sucker"
Other subway riders looks at him with fraught.
Subway Rider 1 - "Gotcha!"
Subway riders' eyes wide open with terror.
Subway Rider 1 - "I'm gonna FRAG YOUR ASS!"
Subway Riders steps away...
Sunway Rider 1 - "You're dead meat! Yeah, YEAH! Dead meat!" looking up to a cluster fuck of riders at the opposite end of the car.
"oh."
As this product is not made by Apple and does not have a little "i" in front of its name, I am simply not interested.
From now on a headline may only read "X device can NOT run linux, in any way shape or form" and all other silicon containing devices from henceforth will just be assumed able to run linux. Thanks, that is all.
The GBA has a 240x160 screen, and Doom was designed for 320x240, preferably 640x480. The GBA version also isn't all that smooth, presumably the CPU (~16 Mhz Arm7 I think)isn't quite as powerful as Doom would like. This device has slightly more reasonable specs, i.e. a 320x240 screen and a 400 Mhz Xscale, and also a hard drive so you can add extra maps or use mods (I love that Doom railgun!).
Still, that said, I'm not going to rush out and buy one to replace my GBA...
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Seriously, alsmost every new cell phone out there has a crappy camera built in. Why not put in a decent cell phone set up into a decent camera. There's enough processing power and battery life ,etc.
Jesus used to be my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.
i was playing doom i on my 6600 this time last year.
i'm trying to give up sigs.
Behold MAME for digi cams.
No sig for you!!
400 MHz Intel PXA255 Xscale processor, the Giga Vu Pro contains a 40 or 60 GB hard drive
of course it does have a bigger hard drive ... sigh
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
A beowolf cluster of these! Sorry.
The road to hell is paved with good inventions.
...certainly knows how to attract the average Doom player.
I wonder why they selected that image?
The title page for Jobo AG's international site is pretty funny. At least it is to me, as a Brit.
The V symbol the woman is making there, with her fingers outwards (i.e. fingernails towards the viewer) is a symbol used by Brits which is generally considered only marginally less offensive than the more widely recognised one finger symbol.
I doubt anyone's dumb enough to actually be offended by this, but it's not the world's greatest P.R. either.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
Why spend $550 for this thing when you can just get a Sharp SL-5600? The specs are pretty much the same except the zaurus doesn't have a 40 gig hard drive, but it has an actual keyboard.
It has everything but ethernet. I gues we will not be seeing a beowulf cluster of these.
You say you want a revolution....
Phase 2. Market it to a very small percentage of the population for a cheap price
Phase 3. = No profit!
Ok is it just me or does their marketing department suck? They created the perfect PocketPC killer and forgot to tell anyone and decided to use it to ONLY show photos and videos? Um, HELLO??
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They have been doing stuff like this for a long time at (simulatedlucidity.com)
I'm assuming that is US dollars. For that amount of money I can get an ipac, PCMCIA sleeve and wireless network card. Jump on over to handhelds.org, and grab everything I need.
Back in 2002 I had an ipac system with doom that could be played point to point over wireless with another ipac. My version of doom would run in side view so we would get fullscreen. Left thumb navigated, and right hand used the fire button.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
* 3.8 inch high quality color LCD screen - 320 * 240 pixel with adjustable brightness/ giga_vu_pro.h tm)
* Touch Screen (for keyboard entry)
* Pal / NTSC selectable
* Headphone / audio line out compatible with automatic detection
* built in loudspeaker with volume control
* USB 2.0 high speed mass storage device.
* Recognized as a computer's external hard drive for fast up- and downloading from or to PC or Mac
* WiFi enabled. Optional WiFi (IEEE802.11) Compact Flash card sold separately
* Menu languages include English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Swedish
* Non-interchangeable high quality rechargeable Li-Ion battery (2200 mAh)
* Optional external battery pack available
* Firmware fully user upgradeable
(http://www.jobodigital.com/products
A worthy replacement for my aging Zaurus.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
are there any decent handwriting recognition software for linux yet?
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Who cares?
I know this may be modded as flamebait, but if they didn't want to pay for a MicroSoft license, there's no playing the PocketPC market. And maybe they just didn't see a market for a linux organizer.
big deal. my nokia 6600 has doom, a couple nes emulators, gameboy emulators, genesis emulators, even a slow snes emulator. not to mention all the native games written for this platform. it does decent web browsing with opera and doubles as an ebook reader. and... so on.
Giga may be pronounced as in GIGAbyte.
or "jig-uh" as in GIGAwatt.
jig-uh-vu sounds very similar to a racial slur for african americans... I'm not buying one of these things.
Yeah, My desktop works great as a doom console. And I didn't even have to mod it to make it work! I AM TEH HACKSOR.
This really does not suprise me. I was able to run Doom on my Casio Cassiopeia E-100. It ran pretty well considering that the E-100 used a 133MHz cpu. The program I used for it was "Pocket Doom"
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Sure, a linux kernel makes it easy to do stuff like this & also has a lot of potential to do other cool stuff. But PORTING software to foreign OSs that are more stripped down than embedded linux still has much more nerd appeal. My digital camera runs an all-but-forgotten proprietary DigitaOS. It has had MAME and DOOM ported to it for a while now.
The displays on these handheld toys keep getting smaller and smaller, while my aging eyesight keeps getting weaker and weaker. I'll be impressed when Doom is successfully ported to a frickin' Braille display.
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
I just looked at their site. A few subtitles on the products would sure be helpful for readers who aren't digital photography buffs but who might know one who needs a birthday gift.
After reading the features list on this gadget I'm still not entirely sure what it's for. My first guess at a glance was a digital video camera with a nice display. I think it's actually a handheld mediaplayer. But that doesn't seem worth the price, so maybe it also does video editing. I really can't tell.
I did a search on google for the project maintainer's name and it seems he is also involved in a web analytics company. And this is from their technology pages: We exclusively use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the latest firewall and intrusion prevention technologies to get maximum protection from viruses, worms and unauthorized access. Guess there is no love for microsoft technologies there ;-)
Why would go about trying to make a digital photo display box into a game console?
Just go buy a Zodiac:
http://www.tapwave.com
It's based on the PalmOS, so you don't need a hacked SDK from some odd site to make games for it. You can just, you know, make games for it.
Screw Doom. I'm stuck with a *&%# Palm device, and have wanted to run Nethack on a portable for ages.
Sadly, Nethack for Palm has been dead for a few years, and iRouge and the other "Rouge Like" programs for Palm just don't have the features or depth of game play that Nethack does.
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I think some people here are getting a bit confused by the wording of the submission.
When the original poster referred to the 'Doom Console', he meant the handheld computer your character carries around in DOOM 3, not a console that you can play DOOM on.
For one thing, Ogg Vorbis is computationally about twice as complex as MPEG layer 3. For another, if it supports a full complement of MPEG formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX which is variant of MPEG-4) but no WMA or WMV, then it's probably using a dedicated MPEG decoder ASIC, which can't easily be reconfigured to handle non-MPEG audio formats.
If you want to play quake, then find a cheap portable DVD player and load in The Blair Witch Project.
Doc Brown's pronunciation of "gigawatt" sounds like Jay-Z's pronunciation of Jigga-what.
"It only takes one point twenty-one niggawatts to send your white ass black to tha futa." -- GNAA