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Gamepark Releases the GP2X Wiz

Posted by timothy on from the for-the-obscurantists dept.

Craig writes "Gamepark have officially released the follow-up to its successful Linux handheld, the GP2X. The GP2X Wiz is a 533Mhz Linux-based handheld that's a similar size to the GBA Micro, with a touchscreen and 12 games preloaded into memory, many of which are demos of commercial games. The system comes with 1GB of flash memory, which can be expanded with SD cards. The Homebrew Community have already released ports of games such as Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, Warcraft and emulators for SNES, Genesis, Commodore 64 and the arcade emulator Mame."

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  1. Re:Successful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Heck it the thing burst into flames in everyone's hands and gave people herpes, I'd still consider it successful.

    just like a freetard. in a freetards mind just getting their product to market is a success but if this were microsoft and excel didn't have the ability to import some 15 year old forgotten document format they'd be screaming bloody murder and endlessly be moaning on about FAIL!!!!eleventhousandonehundredeleven!!!!111!!!

  2. Re:Android? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No. Android doesn't even support hardware accelerated OpenGL yet and the Dalvik VM performance is a fucking joke. So, NO.