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Geek Culture / Just bought a GP2X F200... What's good on it?

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Van B
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Posted: 25th Sep 2009 09:56
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Hi all, should get it tomorrow, pretty little things ehh!



Just wondering, if anyone had some suggestions for good software for it - it's really just for emulating Atari ST etc, but if there are some cool games out there I should check out then please post. I'm also wondering what other applications are good on it, it's got a damn fast processor for a handheld, so am hoping there might be some nice freeware applications, like we get on the NDS.


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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 25th Sep 2009 10:00
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just out of passing curiosity, how much are these things ?


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Van B
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Posted: 25th Sep 2009 10:08 Edited at: 25th Sep 2009 10:10
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I got mine for £96 (about $150us) on eBay, I noticed that there's very little price difference between the F100 and F200, it's like some people don't even realize because they look fairly similar, and you wouldn't assume that one had a touch screen and one didn't.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 25th Sep 2009 11:00
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In a similar vein to the GP2X, the GP2X inspired Pandora might actually launch before the end of this decade!

http://openpandora.org/

It was meant to be out by last Christmas and still isn't. Kinda glad I snapped and went for an Eee.

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Darth Vader
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I was considering getting an eePC since the prices have dropped, I really want something for my typing (Which I seem to do a lot of lately). Also something more permanent for my studies. Maybe I should just get a keyboard for my old Pocket PC.

Looks cool Van, let us know how everything goes! I'm especially interested in the Atari ST part

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Atari ST emulator? Cool! Would work well with the touch screen. I wonder if they have one DS?


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I'm myself still waiting for OpenPandora, shame it takes so long

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I was going to get one over an Eee. Then I saw how slow the progress was. Given it's more than a year on, I'm glad I went netbook. There's not much point in OpenPandora now. It WAS top spec. Now it's not.

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Yay! A fellow GP2X F200 owner!
I recommend trying some of the devkits. Coding some SDL apps is really fun!

I guess you already know about this site(but maybe someone doesn't): http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi (GP2X software archive)


Edit: Offtopic(kinda) Has anyone tried the "Dingoo A320" handheld?

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Quote: "Edit: Offtopic(kinda) Has anyone tried the "Dingoo A320" handheld?"


I have it but haven't done any firmware or software updates, so the SNES emulator is veeeery slow.


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Van B
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Yeah, found that site ZZZ cheers .

It's emulating power is superb, although I haven't done much with it, still waiting on a power cord so using batteries (ugh!). I just pray that they add touch screen support to the ST emulator. The Megadrive and SNES emulators are very accurate at least.


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