The developers got finaly Bluetooth working on the Pandora!

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=6319

Fresh Pandora news in german language can be found at pandora-blog.de, enjoy!

http://pandora-blog.de/

OpenHandhelds.de is a brandnew and growing portal in german language, specialized in Open Handhelds such as the Wiz, GP2x and Pandora.

Greeting message:

In den nächsten Tagen werden wir einige neue Artikelserien starten, die euch hoffentlich die Wartezeit bis zum Release der Pandora etwas kurzweiliger gestalten. Ihr könnt gespannt sein, welche Themen sich unser Team für euch ausgedacht hat.

Natürlich werden wir auch die Features und das Design der Website weiter ausbauen. Beispielsweise werdet ihr bald die Möglichkeit haben, unsere Artikel per RSS-Feed zu abonnieren.

Wir möchten uns für die geäußerte konstruktive Kritik bedanken, und versuchen die Verbesserungsvorschläge bald umzusetzen.

Schaut einfach in ein paar Tagen mal wieder rein, dann gibt es sicherlich einige Neuheiten zu entdecken.

Good luck, colleagues! 🙂

http://www.openhandhelds.de/

ZodTTD ported Franxis mame4all project over to Pandora and released a video of his port in action. Check out the video via the link below.

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In two hours of work, I had MAME ported over from Franxis’ mame4all project on the GP2X handheld, over to Pandora. Full speed, full 44100Hz stereo sound, assembly cpu cores, no underclocking/tweaks needed for performance via MAME, and I used a battery-saving 500MHz CPU clockspeed. I could most certainly underclock the Pandora to save power with the majority of emulated games as well.

Things to keep in mind…I have a very early edition of the Pandora devkit, so I had to rotate and scale the framebuffer via software/code I’ve written. The release version of this port will not need this extra rotation, and therefor will run FASTER on the actual Pandora hardware.

I have interest in porting the most recent version of MAME over to Pandora, if the mame4all team decides not to. Right now mame4all is based on a v0.37 beta of MAME, and therefor the romset is a bit over 2000 games made up to the year 2001.

http://www.zodttd.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4845

ZodTTD released a new video of his PlayStation emulator PSX4pandora in action.

Thanks to http://www.emuboards.com for the news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXtYmZa4yM

News from the Pandora project. More than the initial planned 3000 pre-orders will be taken till Sunday. They are just going to produce the end number of pre ordered units then. This is the first and last batch for 2008.

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We will continue to accept Pandora orders for the first batch until SUNDAY – we will increase the first batch manufactured to match these orders.

After that it will be from the second batch in 2009.

We recommend you order as soon as possible as we must start production next week.

We are also answering as many emails as we can, but if possible can you check the new forum we have set up (see blog) as the old forum is still dead from being overloaded.

Most of the European users may pre-order here: http://www.openpandora.de/index.php

http://www.openpandora.org/index.php

The Pandora pre-order has hit in like a bomb in just less than six hours. EvilDragon, responsible for the german pre-orders, has made a statement, that all 3000 pieces are most likely gone!

This is pretty insane and the Pandora for sure will bring the big ones into fear!

http://www.openpandora.de/

Pocketgamer.co.uk conducted an interview with Craig Rothwell, one of the master minds behind the upcomming Pandora console.

Please visit the link below for the interview.

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Various/Pandora/news.asp?c=8667

EvilDragon posted a description of Pandoras PXML Fileformat, a standard that has to be included with every app to ensure it’s working properly with every GUI. It contains various informations about a game or application, for example title, description, screenshot, icon, category, file associations, etc.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=44409

EvilDragon uploaded a video of the Amiga emulator UAE4ALL running fullspeed on a pandora devboard.

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Yep, here is some video I took running UAE4ALL on the Pandora Devboard!
It’s running fullspeed (and is limited so it doesn’t run the games faster than fullspeed!)
The selection of games is quite limited – as my devboard doesn’t have keys and inputs yet, I needed to find videos which don’t have cracktros and start demonstration playing… no easy task.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=44100