Video: Kronos, BattleJewels, Mplayer, more
February 26, 2010
There’s something for (nearly) everyone in this video, as Skeezix shows off his own apps Kronos and BattleJewels, launches a video in Mplayer (don’t worry, there is a GUI for that, he’s just not using it), and throws in a bit of file browsing and PND recognition for good measure. He also gives us his take on the current state of software, in the brief text below.
Some real-world stuff here
When EvilDragon posted some status updates, some folks loved it, some did not — its a new device, a niche target, for hackers and joe public alike. Some features are rough around the edges, but most of the device works great. Still, thought I’d show a few real world scenarios – run a couple games and apps.
Things are starting to pad out a little, even though general devs don’t have devices yet; we’ve got Picodrive for Genesis emulation, Hatari for Atari ST, UAE for Amiga, MAME, Vice for Commodore 64, and a really groovy port of DosBox with full touchscreen mouse emulation, for instance. We’ve got Abiword built in, along with some little utils — djwillis crammed quite a bit into that firmware space! Some ports are coming along .. Quake 1, 2, 3 — with Quake 3 running at like 20-30fps so far! GemRB, Descent..
Anyway, here’s just a few things I thought I’d show off — video, my new Kronos interp, and BattleJewels. If you want to see Quake 3 or something, let me know..
Video playing is one of those things we all just want, day-zero; we don’t have hardware supported decode yet, so are relying on pure software decoding. This can be troublesome for some video playing software, but others handle things much better. It will struggle _right now_ with software decoded full high def …. but watch the video, and you’ll see full speed no framedrop playing of a standard def ripped right from my DVDs. So its not all bleak like some people think — I can watch my med-quality DVD rips of Firefly no problem! Want to watch animated stuff.. no problem! ITs hyour high def rips that are a problem right now, and we’ll get hardware decode sorted out eventually.
I then pop into my new Kronos application, which is a player for interactive fiction games (Magnetic Scrolls, ZMachine/Infocom style, Scott Adams, and possible others.) We’ll also port over TADS and others standalone I’m sure. But for now, let me just fire up a couple moments of The Guild of Thieves, a classy game I’ve been meaning to work on for oh, 15 years or so
Further, I run the pnd-file version of my BattleJewels game.. a rather cross between head to head action RPG and puzzle games — cast spells, chop down your opponent, buy some gear and level up! pnd-files are working great .. just double-click to run, pick them from the menu, or run them from your own organized directories using the file browser.
Lastly I show the pnd-file auto-discovery as the SD is ejected/inserted — no work installation of the games.
Bear in mind – no overclock here, this is 500mhz default!
Also bear in mind it is hard to tap on a screen or fiddle with buttons, while your other hand is holding a tiny cameraEnjoy
More talk on the forums.
I will be DoSing the forums because one of the mods changed my signature
Good luck with that…
I also have an unrelated question/request: how easy is on-the-fly overclocking right now? Is there a script built in yet, or a GUI utility? I don’t recall having seen anyone adjust the clock speed in any videos, but I would like to…
Overclocking?! What’s your order number?
:sealofquality:
It’s in the menu.. System -> Set CPU Speed
it pops up a slider and you can pick a value from very low to very high and hit OK
it then pops up a warning confirmation box if you’re going higher than 600
(this is current behavior in our Dev firmwares)
jeff
and we will be doing all we can to report you to the relevant authorities…
also count on that, anyway im sure his webpage hosted on blogger will be soon down by google policy.
ohe megabyte de verdad que eres tan desocupado en la vida como para estar haciendo DoS?, cuando sera que las autoridades mexicanas te paren? o peor aun si estas en USA.
sigue asi y ojala te den una buena condena.
meanwhile we can laugh for a while of him
http://www.lastdragon.net/?m=200702
in spanish, use google translator its good enough to laugh for a while
No one gives a sh*t, we all hate you, and can’t wait for mods to give you an IP ban.
I thought 600mhz was the default?
600mhz is the rating, but 500mhz is the default. As far as I understand it anyway.
Most companies using ARM chips in their devices choose to underclock by default for extra battery and lifetime (Apple included).
lol disabled my link? you want the blog to go down too?
I vote they just delete your posts.
who cares about your opinion?
megabyte, I have tracked your ip – if you do not stop the DoS I will personally get one of my contacts in your locale to get to your location and beat your ugly face to something resembling normal. Just test me, you will regret it very very soon
oh no you tracked my ip? OMG hahah go back to your forums fanboy, I’m gonna take a nap then the attack continues
OMG, he needs to make the DoS by hand.
Funny.. I think megabyte is throwing MS-DOS 6.22 disks at his monitor. At least that’s how I picture his “attacks”.
XD good one!.
his entire behaviour is a joke, but sadly attacks is something he takes seriously even if he has to do it by hand.
anyway, if he doesnt stop, then gruso or atomicthumbs can contact me, i’ve dealt with him so many times.
Who cares about your signatures and links?
megabyte, DoSing a website is not a mature response to being censored
(unless you’re 4chan. but you’re not 4chan.)
ah, screw it. he threatened the blog.
) from accessing the server.
Edit: megabyte gone
I’ve blocked his IP (68.35.107.127
he will come back with another ip whether using a dynamic ISP or using privacy proxy
its more use letting him attack then showing his ISP proof of it leaving him service less.
but his effort to do so is far bigger than atomicthumbs to block him.
just an e-mail with some proof
ip with time tag. and attack report.
abuse@comcast.net
how about we get everybody together at once, and just repeatedly flood ping his ip for a few days or so? lol ;P
Looks pretty cool. Will the Pandora support mobile internet (3G via USB)?
Sure, if the 3G modem works in linux it will work on the Pandora
Yep.
I got a pre set it up as a wireless access point to allow the pandy to tether(when it arrives). Not a bad deal… will probably need to usb tether to handle battery drain on the pre.
Short but sweet! Thanks for the video Skeezix!
Portable if with a keyboard will definitely be cool.
“oops knife”
Any chance of a Dwarf Fortress port?
I talked to Toady One a while back, and the answer is “probably”
BattleJewels looks awesome, can’t wait to play it. Will there be 2 player over wifi? Thanks for the great video, skeezix!
:sealofquality:
I will be adding multiplayer
***Humor Alert***
Send me my Pandora now or else I will DoS everything but the forum! (Just Kidding for you over sensitive types)
Help! We are under DDoP attack!
(Distributed Denial-of-Pandora-distribution)
I remember reading about someone saying they had a dream they were enjoying their pandora, I had a dream a couple months ago where I was order #50. damn I want my pandora.
I hope all the errors from the gp2x version of battlejewels are fixed in this release, anyone confirm?
What errors? There were a couple little glitches fixed but nothing big
let me know of anything… I never got more than 1 bug report
email me skeezix skeleton.org
It’s been so long since I played it , but there are like 5 items to purchase ( upgrades ) that just lock the game and a hard reset is needed. By folowing your weapons guide on your webpage and trying to always upgrade weapons to finish the game became – always resetting…. just got old after a while ..But GREAT game hope the bugs get fixed…
Those bugs were fixed, for sure. Maybe I forgot to rebuild it for gp2x, but that was fixed in Wiz and Palm OS builds, for sure.
jeff
So still no news. Which monday were they talking about?
Uh, tomorrow?
Yesterday I have tried the iPod touch of a friend.
I’m clearly not an Apple fan boy but man that was so good !
I wonder how cool the new iPhone 3Gs is compared to that touch one.
When I see the Pandora now I’m really pissed-off !
Ok it’s half the price but I’m waiting since age while I could have gone with that from the very beginning.
Yesterday I have tried the iPod touch of a friend.
I’m clearly not an Apple fan boy but man that was so good !
I wonder how cool the new iPhone 3Gs is compared to that touch one.
When I see the Pandora now I’m really pissed-off !
OK it’s half the price but I’m waiting since age while I could have gone with that from the very beginning.
Not even sure the Pandora will do fine with things like musics, zoom-in stuff with 2 fingers, cool applications accelerometer or GPS.
What I see there is really not intuitive nor 2010. I’m sorry but it’s true! I was pro Pandora until now but times change!
The iPhone/Touch is great at what it does, but that kind of experience was never the intention of Pandora. It’s a bit like comparing a Vespa to a Jeep. One isn’t really a replacement for the other.