Ashens reviews Open Pandora

[WDeranged]

 

I stopped keeping up with Pandora news ages ago but now they actually exist, designed and manufactured (mostly) in the UK; it will run pretty much every emulator in existence...want.

[Guest Slinky]

Tempting indeed! I've always wanted a good portable device that runs emulators well and has good controllers.Bit pricey though. Or maybe not, it's a portable PC.

 

But I would guess Sony will be throwing an army of lawyers at them for emulating PS and PSP games.

[WDeranged]

I don't think Sony can do much about it, as far as I know it doesn't come pre-loaded with emulators, it's just a little Linux PC

 

I'm going to be good and resist temptation for now, even if it can play 99% of all the games I've ever loved

[Gorgon]

Wireless modem ?, internet browsing ?.

 

Can it hook up to anything ?

[Guest Slinky]

Hmm, from the current status page at Open Pandora site:

 

Units produced so far: About 2500, 400 have been used for RMAs

 

Quality seems to be lacking..

[WDeranged]

Yeah I heard something about dodgy analog sticks, best to hang back a while and watch, I'm getting bigtime geeklust over the idea of full speed Amiga games on a handheld though.

[mkreku]

The thought of playing old games again is almost always more attractive than actually playing old games again.

 

But nice device!

[WDeranged]

The thought of playing old games again is almost always more attractive than actually playing old games again.

 

But nice device!

 

Yeah but there's a cut off point, replaying most 8bit games ends in shattered dreams, a ton of 16bit games are still worth playing though, WinUAE or MAME on a large LCD TV with wireless pads is bliss

[Nightshape]

A guy I know from DoubleSix has one, they're sweet! Especially the MAME, Amiga, Atari ST emulation stuff...