ZX81 comes through again, this time with a port of the (infamously hard to port) ebook reader program, FBreader.
FBreader supports many different ebook formats, including EPUB, HTML, Mobipocket, Plucker, RTF, plain ol’ ASCII, and others. It has a library for managing your book collection, and supports full-screen mode (I bound it to the Pandora key on mine for easy full-screening). It’s highly configurable, and you can change the font settings, screen orientation, and other bits.
Until last week it was looking like we’d be SNESless on day one, as we waited for a white knight to prepare one of the builds we’ve already seen for public consumption. So what do you do when all your white knights are busy? Dial S for Skeezix, of course. In the name of day one righteousness, he’s gone and done a quick port of Snes9x (Dingoo version) and it’s available to download now.
The first units are barely out the door, and OS support is already in full effect with two updates announced by EvilDragon. The first one is a bit of a woopsie; a few packages were missing from the first OS image, so new Pandora owners will need to run the hotfix. Units produced from this point forward should have this fix included. If you’re not sure if your unit needs it, it won’t hurt to run it anyway. The second item (the codec pack) will not make its way into the shipped OS image, ever, so all Pandora owners will need to run it. Both updates are in PND format – just drop them onto your SD and run them.
Craig and Fatih have been pumpin’ out the production line pics. If your only news source was taken down by a freak traffic spike on the weekend, here’s what you missed.
This is the email that a handful of lucky folk have received today. It’s a slow and steady start, but with Fatih due to arrive tomorrow, EvilDragon arriving on Monday, and other volunteers on the way including benevolent forum mod x68000, production should hit 88mph in no time. If you’ve received your confirmation email, insert gloat below!
A plethora of Pandora bellies, stickered up and ready for guts. They don’t have the full assembly team on board yet, but with fifty units set to ship tomorrow they seem to be doing ok so far. EvilDragon, who has been on a business trip to Korea, is due to arrive at Craig’s on Monday with webcam in tow. Ladies and gentlemen, it has well and truly begun.
For those in the 1,000 to 4,000 group, we’re still awaiting confirmation that the remainder of the cases have been ordered. The factory is likely to be getting their instructions from Fatih, who typically gets things done quietly and speaks when they’re done. Stay tuned…
ps. Hope everyone’s ok with this.
Craig has returned home from the airport with the most crucial shipment yet; Canadian superhero Michael Weston. They’re still locked out of the forums in that part of the world for some reason, but between Twitter and the blog comments they’re keeping the news feed ticking.
Right, down to work.
(classic craigix)
Hello from Craig’s place.
We’ve been going through the boxes and making sure it’s all here and it looks good. Everything does look good to go so we can start setting up right away.
(MWeston)
Update:
posting from a mp pandora!
(craigix)
So, Michael Weston is due to land in the UK in around 24hrs. Cause for excitement? Maybe – but that volcano continues to do its spewing thing over yonder, so the situation may still be a little fluid. Murphies and doom aside though, it’s probably a good time to double check that your delivery address is correct. If you have moved house since ordering, or you think getting your Pandora delivered to your workplace is a better idea, tireless GBAX frontwoman Jacquelyn will be happy to help you out. If you do need to change your address, include your order number, original address, and new address in your email.
One last hype injection as Craig hits the hay. He’s currently having problems accessing GP32X, so he’s been sending out tweets instead. Here they are.
I built a MP Pandora and all went well. This should be an interesting week to come
Michael arrives here on Wednesday morning, which means a 4:30am start for me! Arrghh!
Thanks everyone for the kind words, we have done it, now we just have to build them! Wow, this was a tough project.
I know you want photos but I want, well, sleep. I’m planning video tomorrow. Let’s drink to the good times, red wine, going to my head…
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