New laptop?

jbr · Power User (Posts: 301)

Ah yes, after a year+ of trying to use an iPod Touch to fill in between my departed Pocket PC *may his soul rest in peace*, I'll be glad to finally have buttons again. I don't think I'll ever go back to Windows mobile again, though, despite how awesome my old Pocket PC was: The unix command line on my iPod is just too cool and useful a feature to give up.

Pandora will, of course, satisfy all of this and more! I just watched a video of a developer testing nullDC (that's right, the DREAMCAST EMULATOR) on a beagleboard* (as a substitute for a pandora dev board). I am sooo excited for when I finally get mine! Powerstone 2, here I come!

*The beagleboard, if you don't know, is like the desktop to the pandora's laptop: it's a tiny SOC based on the same processor and graphics card as the Pandora, but at a slightly slower clock speed. I've seen one in action personally, and it is certainly amazing to see a full xfce desktop being run off a board barely larger than a credit card.

Ultimate Dev'r · Join us on #cemetech-vaporware (Posts: 7297)

I can't wait until a sub-notebook comes out that can run pcsx2.

KermMartian · Site Admin (Posts: 64080)

I'm pretty sure that's one of the more expensive ones, which is only $99 because it comes with a 3G card and a 2-year data contract.

jbr · Power User (Posts: 301)

Ha, isn't that what the PSP was supposed to be? I remember everyone saying that it would be like a portable PS2, and now people still pretend that they are happy with it as a portable PSX.

And another great emulator: Dolphin. Great Gamecube emulation and decent Wii emulation too! Just a few days ago, it became possible to play Super Smash Bros Brawl with it, which is something I've been looking forward to for months.

Now I just have to dump that disk... Meh, I think bittorrent will be faster + easier.

Ultimate Dev'r · Join us on #cemetech-vaporware (Posts: 7297)

It was supposed to play ported PS2 games (which it does), much like how the DS was advertised to play N64 games (a la Super Mario 64 port).

Kllrnohj · ☢ PH34R |\/|3 (Posts: 8196)

It is a portable PS2. Native PSP games look much better than PSX games, and definitely approach (if not meet) PS2 quality. Emulation adds massive overhead, and the PSP is capable of emulating the PSX games in real time (even an official emulator for it). Hardly a small feat. Last I saw it handled the N64 pretty well, too.

Alex · Official Cemetech Site Manager (Posts: 7912)

I actually hate my PSP now. Besides getting one of the first gens a few days after it's release, the discs all came apart - except for the ones I never played.

Kllrnohj · ☢ PH34R |\/|3 (Posts: 8196)

I *love* my PSP (fat, original). It was just OK at first, but after installing a custom firmware it is awesome. You have to give the custom firmware + homebrew a try. Especially now that the Pandora battery pretty much eliminates the chance of bricking.

EDIT: And if your discs are falling apart you are doing something wrong - I haven't had any issues with that at all o.0 (yay for altoid disc cases)