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."

Comments

Why just doom?

[kebes]

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

Cheaper

[generic-man]

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!

GP32

[EdZ]

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.

Nice specs

[marcello_dl]

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.)