This week I bought myself a new portable video/audio player and gaming device called the GP2X. This is the first "gaming" system I've bought myself since my Sega Genesis, back in the early '90s.
I must say, this is an awesome little device. Best of all, it runs on Linux and is open source... that is, everyone is free to develop, contribute, distribute software and other devices for this machine.
The community that is contributing to the GP2X world is relatively small, but we're growing and, as most things Linux, advancing by the week.
I blog a bit about it here if anyone's interested... with some video capture of the GP2X in action (scroll down to my blog entry for April 8th for those).
The best thing about the GP2X so far for me: many of the "old school" gaming systems (Sega Genesis, C64, Nintendo, even the old arcade games) have emulation software available, so all of my favorites I can now play in the palm of my hand; I don't need to set up the old hardware/equipment to play them anymore.
8)
I must say, this is an awesome little device. Best of all, it runs on Linux and is open source... that is, everyone is free to develop, contribute, distribute software and other devices for this machine.
The community that is contributing to the GP2X world is relatively small, but we're growing and, as most things Linux, advancing by the week.
I blog a bit about it here if anyone's interested... with some video capture of the GP2X in action (scroll down to my blog entry for April 8th for those).
The best thing about the GP2X so far for me: many of the "old school" gaming systems (Sega Genesis, C64, Nintendo, even the old arcade games) have emulation software available, so all of my favorites I can now play in the palm of my hand; I don't need to set up the old hardware/equipment to play them anymore.
8)