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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. GP32 by EdZ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:Cheaper by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Interesting
    > You will need:
    > (1) Game Boy Advance ($70 for the regular kind, $80 for the SP)
    > (1) Copy of Doom ($30)

    Yeah, but will your GBA be able to run Linu-never mind, of course it will.

  3. Re:New Standards by Lisandro · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Doom lately has been running on just about anything with a microprocessor - i can't find a link, but some guy posted how to flash his digital camera so it ran Doom. Beyond cool!

  4. Re:Why just doom? by PoopJuggler · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Kids today think gaming began with Doom. The old world is dead.