I still don't get why people think the GBA is a kid's device. I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
The GBA is the last bastion of hope for 2d gamers. Side-scrollers, shoot 'em ups, platformers, top-overs, 'classical' RPGs... There all there baby
I have a couple of these, the reason I didn't list it as the first PDA is that it's quite large... and the PIM software on it is basically nonexistant.
fun little machine though, you can beat the shit out of it
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Umm, actually no.
The Atari Portfolio came out in 1989.
It was basically an XT that fit in your hand. The PIM functions were good, not great, but it was DOS2.2 and lotus 1-2-3 compatible.
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The bastard child of this pda was the HPLX series. These were/are the most versatile and fun to hack palmtop ever. They're an 80186, upgradable to 64megs of ram, with a pcmcia slot, a Numberpad (yes! roguelike game players unite), CGA graphics and they run on AAs.
The original Newton, while surely it made people think about the pen interface as a serious option for handhelds, was a joke to people running palmtops with desktop power.
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I wish HP would remake this with a more modern cpu. There is a japanese group supposedly working on it with the AMD Elan processor, but we haven't heard anything from them in a while.
I've looked into older pen-based tablet computers, but I'd miss not having an actual keyboard
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Up the irons!
I still don't get why people think the GBA is a kid's device. I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
The GBA is the last bastion of hope for 2d gamers. Side-scrollers, shoot 'em ups, platformers, top-overs, 'classical' RPGs... There all there baby
Goddess bless Enix
They just want all my pr0n passwords!
Will it be released on laserdisc? :P
Anywhere, that is, I'm used to importing stuff
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No, masochists use hjkl.
I have a couple of these, the reason I didn't list it as the first PDA is that it's quite large... and the PIM software on it is basically nonexistant.
fun little machine though, you can beat the shit out of it
Umm, actually no.
The Atari Portfolio came out in 1989.
It was basically an XT that fit in your hand. The PIM functions were good, not great, but it was DOS2.2 and lotus 1-2-3 compatible.
[rant]
The bastard child of this pda was the HPLX series. These were/are the most versatile and fun to hack palmtop ever. They're an 80186, upgradable to 64megs of ram, with a pcmcia slot, a Numberpad (yes! roguelike game players unite), CGA graphics and they run on AAs.
The original Newton, while surely it made people think about the pen interface as a serious option for handhelds, was a joke to people running palmtops with desktop power.
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I wish HP would remake this with a more modern cpu. There is a japanese group supposedly working on it with the AMD Elan processor, but we haven't heard anything from them in a while.
I've looked into older pen-based tablet computers, but I'd miss not having an actual keyboard
We can't all afford Librettos or Picturebooks.
I'll stick to good ol' liquid nitrogen
Will this new dev patch increase performance when playing Linux Quake on my 486DX/2??
uhh, people are going to buy the GBA because it's last bastion of hope for us 2d Platformer, RPG, and side-scroller fans
You god-damned pixelated rasterbaters make me sick
I like my bag phone just fine, thanks