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Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld
Croakyvoice writes "Gamepark Holdings, the makers of the GP2X
Console, have today announced
the successor, which is called the WIZ. The new GBA Micro-sized console features
a touchscreen, Linux OS, an Arm9 533MHZ 3D processor with 64MB of ram and will
have commercial games on sale at launch in October. Best of all for fans of homebrew
and emulation on the GP2X, all that needs to be done is recompiling of sourcecode."
...I heard that nobody beats it!
I'm a big tall mofo.
From what specifics I could find on it, they are planning on supporting Flash 7.0 and I think this means one could play swfs on it (of which I know several addictive games online).
As for other support, I'm kind of disappointed that they went far enough to support Lyrics (Lyc) files but they only support TXT for their E-Books. I would be nice to see Plucker supported by default so that all the Project Gutenberg books would be readily accessible in something better than just plain text. But, I suppose that's just a matter of recompiling for the targeted architecture. I wonder if proprietary e-Book formats will ever be supported on devices like this? That's probably just wishful thinking--why would Amazon divert sales of the Kindle to something like this?
My work here is dung.
Can someone write an emulator so that we can we WIZ on our Wiis?
Although the Wiz is the "official" successor, the successor in spirit (and with a much more open development process, and much more likely to actually get up-to-date source code published - the GP2X firmware versions aren't always open-sourced properly) is the Pandora... www.openpandora.org - which is due out at roughly the same time as the Wiz.
Most of the developers for the GP2X are actually putting their weight behind the Pandora first - I know, I'm a GP2X software porter of things like Simon Tatham's (of PuTTY fame) Portable Puzzle Collection... (Blatant advert: http://www.ledow.org.uk/gp2x/ for that particular one). This is mainly because GPH are notorious for poor information and stock-status. Most countries had trouble importing the GP2X before it was EOL'd anyway, and you don't get anything useful out of the company at all.
Forget the Wiz, open the box....
I went to the site, and there was no listed price. "Son, if you have to ask what it costs, you can't afford one". Too bad, It looks like something I would really like.
Maybe the lack of a price on the "buy it now" button was an oversight; if so, they need to get their heads out of their asses. Very few of us are Bill gates or Larry Ellison; we can't buy things we don't know the price of.
A lame website makes me think they must have a lame product as well. Be careful with your sites, folks! A good site will sell a bad product, but you can't even sell a good product on a bad site.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Must... resist.. penis joke... Damn it! too late.
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All of the games look like cheezy anime. I am not impressed or amused. This just looks like another hand held disappointment.
If it's meant to be like the GP2X and GP32 (of which some misguided person made the same criticism), then you're missing the point. Those were primarily meant for those seeking a more open, hackable handheld that can run emulators and all sorts of other things. They're not really competing with the DS or PSP, which would be better choices if you just want to play games- or at least the kind of mainstream games that Nintendo and/or Sony want you to play.
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I hate that fallacy.
Just becasue someone can't do something doesn't mean that can't identify something that is crap.
I can't build a jumbo jet, but if someone made one with square wheels, I would point out the flaw.
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