Posts Tagged ‘pnd’
February 26, 2010
Posted by: gruso
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.
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February 15, 2010
Posted by: Butterman
EvilDragon has been hard at work making those videos that we all love. First off, he shows us how easy it is to switch between GUIs as well as some Atari ST emulation. Then, after the jump he shows us some Amiga emulation using UAE (which runs flawlessly).
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Posted in Official, Pandora, Software | Tagged amiga, atart st, evildragon, netbook-launcher, pnd, uae | Comments Off
December 17, 2009
Posted by: gruso
A stone’s throw from the noodle scoffing British Isles, lies a mythical land of tidy desks and utopian muzak. Out of this land today comes a video, the third in a series of Pandora OS Snippets from EvilDragon. This time around we take a more detailed look at .pnd files, their data folders, and where you want them to appear. The video concludes with a brief demo on ED’s new Pandora. This article concludes with another Die Hard reference.
“You ask for miracles, Theo, I give you the P. N. D.”
Discuss
Posted in Hardware, Official, Software | Tagged evildragon, pnd, xfce | Comments Off
December 1, 2009
Posted by: gruso
Developers, developers, developers, lend us your attention spans. By now you should be well familiar with the concept of Pandora’s .PND packaging system, which automatically populates the menu with icons when an SD is inserted. To play a part in this sciencemagic, your app must include a valid PXML file. And to make a valid PXML file, you’ll need to read and understand the PXML specification in full – then not mess it up. We live in the real world though, where not everyone reads specs, or they just make mistakes. Sensing a compatibility nightmare on the horizon, defacto PXML ambassador Dflemstr has cooked up a handy little validation tool to help keep the ants out of your .PNDs. If you’re a prospective Pandora developer, you’ll need not one, not two, but all three of these links:
Forum discussion | The PXML spec in PDF form | Dflemstr’s PXML validation tool
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November 10, 2009
Posted by: gruso
In a nice visual addendum to the recent libpnd article, Skeezix demonstrates Pandora’s easy-as-pi .pnd system in action.
Not the most exciting video ever, but its pretty cool to those of us building this stuff
- insert SD
- .pnd files (a bunch of them) auto-recognized
- double-tap with finger on the screen, launches an app
- eject SD
- .pnd files automatically vanish
No installation, no muck, no leftover files, nice and clean and piece of cake.
jeff
Jeff (Skeezix) loves a bit of forum action, so there’s plenty of Q&A happening on the boards if you’d like to know more.
Frequently Asked Question: What’s a .pnd?
.pnd files are the format that our Pandora applications come in. It’s actually a self contained package of files, containing everything a Pandora app needs to run. It’s much like an .iso (what’s an .iso? It’s like a .zip, but it’s not compressed, and you don’t have to unzip it. What’s a .zip? Stop it!) In practical terms, a .pnd is an executable. Click it and it runs.
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November 2, 2009
Posted by: gruso
A significant software milestone has been reached this week with the public release of libpnd, spearheaded by Skeezix and Vimacs. From the wiki:
libpnd is a basic collection of functions and tools to make working Pandora-specific operations easier; to wit, it is hoped multiple applications will make use of this library rather than re-implement similar functionality and lead to problems down the road. (Instead we can run into problems together and thus clobberize them.)
libpnd thus is a collection of …
- handy system code that hopefully is reusable – io functions, cpu clock setting, etc.
- applications for supporting the pandora unique features, such as pndnotifyd for auto-discovery of PXML and .pnd applicatons
- libraries for support of the .pnd and PXML systems; ie: for locating, executable, mounting and unmounting PXML-directory and .pnd applications, loading PXML and handling overrides
- hopefully reusable code for support of these things; ie: a rudimentary but useful config-file parser, rudimentary singly-linked-list container, etc.
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