The “Donaukurier” published an interview with EvilDragon, one of the main guys behind the Pandora. The interview is in german language.

News Source: http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?f=24&p=107614

http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/ingolstadt/Ingolstadt-Pandora-fuer-Liebhaber;art599,2231101

EvilDragon has a few kind and nice words for all Pandora supporters out there and presents a buch of C64 classics, running flawless on the Pandora.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLYBDoNhfqc

Master Pickle is working on a port of Aleph One for the Pandora.

Aleph One is a game engine currently in development by the Open Source community. It is based on the source code of Marathon 2: Durandal, a game created by Bungie Software in 1995. Since Bungie released the source code, Aleph One has matured to include a variety of new features and improvements.

Go and check the video, thanks to Pickle himself for the very fresh news 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zQ7Fbwhb5I

Here it is, the first fully assembled Pandora!

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=50799

PXML File Validator is a tool that validates PXML files. You will need Java to run the application.

It can run in 3 modes:

– “syntax”: checks the XML syntax of the file
– “permissive”: checks the most important aspects of the PXML format
– “strict”: goes through the PXML file, highlighting every little issue it can find.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,14,36

For all of us who understand German, the Austrian news page “Der Standard” wrote an article about the Pandora.

They state that the device is almost ready and also mention the technical aspects. The article is actually a bit too long to translate, but there is still Bablefish if you are keen on it.

http://derstandard.at/1259280762846/Pandora-Open-Source-Spielehandheld-startbereit

The Pandora’s PXML description has been updated. The PXML file format is a standard that has to be included with every application to ensure it’s working properly with every Pandora GUI.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,45,35

EvilDragon already posts quite frequent about the latest Pandora happenings, so did he recently with more fresh information!

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What? Another blog post? And still no pictures of the finished case?

Well… yes. but I thought you might be interested in the (good this time!) news we have.
ALL the moulds are finished now! They are currently doing a test injection (we should be getting the results tonight or tomorrow).

If the injection is fine, they’ll ship the sample case via express to Michael. And if he says “Yep, that’s what we want!” they’ll immediately start producing.

And now here’s our special deal: After talking with them, threatening their life and bribing them with more money the Gizmondo guys ever spent… ahem. Well, anyway, they agreed to start immediately and finish 1000 cases until December 1st!

The rest will follow shortly after, but this would mean we can start mass production as planned early december.

Okay, cross your fingers, pray to the mould injection gods and wait for some new pictures!

http://www.openpandora.org/

Michael Weston did post image which shows the lightpipes working! Of course we at PDRoms can’t hold this back, here we go:

http://www.openpandora.org/

The Pandora guys have news for us and damn good ones too!

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We’ve got some good news! 103 out of the 105 boards did pass the test, this is slightly more than 98% success rate!

TI set up a unique testing environment, especially for the Pandora boards. With a special firmware, every hardware piece of the Pandora can be checked with as little human interaction as possible.

We also got some news from the moulds company. It looks they’re finally nearing completion of the last mould which means we should see the final case moulds soon. There’s not much time left until christmas – but you can be sure we’ll do everything possible to assemble and ship it out just in time!

The latest OS image is also running pretty stable. I’ve been playing around with XFCE myself for the last hours and didn’t encounter any crashes.

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http://www.openpandora.org/