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Photo-Centric Handheld Can Be A Doom Console

Posted by timothy on from the nifty-handheld dept.

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."

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  1. Why just doom? by kebes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems like the perfect platform for running some emulator software and storing hundreds of ROMs of classic games.

  2. Cheaper by generic-man · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  3. And for the same price... by scenestar · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

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  4. The Pricing, the Development Environment by osewa77 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  5. 1, 2, 3 = no profit?? by iamhassi · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Phase 1. Make 400mhz handheld with 40 or 60 GB hd, 3.8-inch touch-screen LCD, CF slot, USB port, speaker, audio/video outputs, joystick and various buttons
    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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  6. handwriting recognition by frankmu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    are there any decent handwriting recognition software for linux yet?

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  7. The Doom Console by EnglishTim · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.