Following on from the previous article: Replay Expo (Arcade, Video Games, Retro) happened on 5th and 6th of November in Blackpool (UK) and part of the Pandora Team (Craig and EvilDragon) as well as a few members of the community attended.
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Met the Team
November 9, 2011
Posted by: may88
Games of the week #9
August 5, 2011
Posted by: may88
This week rather then look at just one game I though I would have a quick look at all the games posted on http://repo.openpandora.org in the last 7 days or so. Listed below in same order as the RSS feed from the repo. I so love this feature.
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Game of the Week #8 – Hex-a-Hop
July 28, 2011
Guest post by: cosurgi
Anybody remembers those good puzzle games like atomix or sokoban? How many hours you spent trying to solve a mind bending problem? Well, hex-a-hop is one of them. And it’s cute!
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Game of the Week #3 – Homeworld SDL
June 23, 2011
Posted by: may88
With this week’s post I wish to bring to your attention the freshly released port of HomeworldSDL. Forum member Edglex enables your Pandora to experience the excellent work done by the guys at HomeworldSDL.
Update:Edglex requested an update to the post to extend his thanks to pseudonym404, one of the HomeworldSDL guys, who did the opengl es port. I will add the thanks from the rest of the OpenPandora community, Thank you pseudonym404 for making this possible.
[update] Arch Linux on the Pandora
June 6, 2011
Posted by: may88
Wejp has produced a new install image which makes installation of Arch Linux on to your Pandora that much easier. Also, it is now compressed with bzip2 which makes it possible to do the installation from the Pandora itself.
Not allowing the dust to settle, super!
June 2, 2011
Posted by: may88
Wermy has been busy little alien with the release of Super Geometry Dust (working title) a few weeks ago. Sorry for not reporting this earlier but it’s been rather busy here lately. 
As the working title suggests the game play is somewhere between Geometry Wars and Super Stardust HD. Like a medieval pontiff, your little geometric chappy stays put in centre of the screen whilst everything rotates about you. Dodge and blast your way through differing enemies, with a homage to asteroids chucked in for good measure.
Arch Linux on the Pandora.
May 21, 2011
Posted by: may88 with guidance from foxblock
Worthy of mention, gp32x’s wejp has ported Arch Linux to the Pandora.
Arch Linux is a distro with the ethos of keeping it simple, pure and modern. Find out what Arch Linux is all about here.
The two main issues with getting Arch Linux running on the Pandora are, 1) Arch is compiled for i686/x86_64 and 2) it’s a bit fiddly for the average user.
To the rescue is PlugApps. Sounding more like something you might add to your browser, it is in fact a port of Arch Linux to ARM and a full distro in its own right. Intended for the likes of the SheevaPlug and associated hardware until, that is, wejp has done the necessary to produce an alternative OS, complete with GUI and some Pandora specific tinkering.
One advantage of running an OS from the SD card is that you can use the integrated package-manager. Arch Linux has a particularly nice one called pacman. Also this OS is based on a more recent version of the Linux kernel and will have more up-to-date packages, which brings its own merits, but the flip-side of this is that you are likely to run into dependency issues with some PNDs. Go to the forum page for more details on this.
wejp is currently working on bringing the automated PND support (what you are used to from Ångström) to Arch as well as his own music player GMU while other users have been busy porting various programs, a list of which you can find in this (German) thread.
Whilst porting PlugApps Linux on the Pandora is a guru activity, installing it on to a SD card is not. To get started read wejp’s blog for the download link and instructions. For now, you will also need to update the kernel to avoid a keyboard bug. Follow these simple instructions. An updated image is planned for release in the near future, which will make installation that much easier.
To keep up-to-date or to ask any questions about wejp’s PlugApps port then follow this gp32x topic.
[I welcome may88, a new member of Team-PandoraPress, who will present you some general Pandora news from now on.
On that note I recall that I never gave kloplop321 an introduction, for which I apologize. Also a big welcome to him, who we will be seeing more Pandora related videos from. --foxblock]
