EvilDragon, one of the guys behind the Pandora, has been interviewed.

The 15 minutes long interview is available on a quite few places so you may pick your favorite at the Techvideoblog page.

Discussion: http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=43871

http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/open-pandora-evildragon-interview/

Damien McFerran catched up with Craig Rothwell, one of the heads behind the upcomming handheld “Pandora”.

Please visit their page for the full interview.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

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

EvilDragon has released high resolution videos of the Pandora in action.

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Basically, it’s nothing new – a Pandora DevBoard running some emulators.

Follow the original thread for more information and the videos!

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?act=ST&f=62&t=43653

A bunch of “real” Pandora pictures hit the public. Previous pictures were computer rendered. Follow the GP32x.com link for more pictures.

Thanks to Guyfawkes / http://www.emuboards.com for the hint.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?act=ST&f=63&t=43555

Pandora news, hot and directly from it’s source:

Hello everyone, Craig here,

It’s been a busy month and if you visit the forums I’m sure you will have been following all the recent news posted there, if not Chip has made a great sticky post with all the little nuggets of information we post which is updated almost imeditelly, well worth checking out.

Now, interesting news for those of you who didn’t get a MK0 dev kit, TI have now started taking orders for the Beagle board OMAP3 development kit. It shares some main parts with the Pandora and those of you eager to get in to the development scene can buy one of these now, check out their site for more info, programs written on the Beagle should be quite easy to port over to the Pandora, it is certainly the closest thing to a Pandora devboard you can currently buy on the open market.

Now, there have been a lot of videos posted in the last few weeks of Pandora dev kits running software, here are the direct links to some and we will post a highlights video soon.

A Jaguar emulator running Tempest2000 by Firefox.

Notaz running Megadrive and MegaCD games without a frame limiter. Seeing sonic going at 200FPS is quite entertaining.

Quake2 running in software mode (not using the 3D hardware yet, but still pushing 60fps).

SNES running Chrono Trigger without a frame limiter.

Now, another area which has a lot of strong opinions is the Pandora default GUI.

The original plan was keep the GUI simple and put as much time and effort in to gettting as much cool software running as possible, but after a poll we have changed direction.

Since most potential customers seem to want a more advanced GUI as standard it’s likely the default will be kDrive (X11 derivative) and any CPU intensive apps/games/emus can just kill kDrive when ran, set their CPU speed, have the system to themselves and just reload kDrive on exit.

For less CPU intensive games/apps/emus they can just run within X, so you can have your desktop like GUI (if you chose to set it up like that) with multitasking (ideal for browsers, media, chat).

Currently the Pandora defaults to 500mhz. As we know it can clock a lot higher. You will be able to change that to whatever you like, as you may have read the battery life is looking like it will be even longer than the estimated 10 hours, and clever CPU speed changes will be the key to optimising this even further.

We will have a real final MK0 Pandora complete with case later this month for photo goodness, if you write for a website or magazine and want to do a feature please get in touch.

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

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

TehSkeen founded a new subpage dedicated to the upcomming Pandora gaming handheld.

http://pandorabox.tehskeen.com/

Soon we will have the real Pandora into our hands, while we don’t here is another video (Quake 2 Port) showing the Pandora in action.

Quote from notaz:

Here is a of FPU demanding game, running on Pandora board:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGz52EIVN8s

It’s running in pure software mode, 320×240 resolution scaled to fit screen.

I had some trouble adjusting my webcam for this video, dark places were too dark and bright too bright to see anything, so the quality is quite bad, unfortunately.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=43314

Quote from ZodTTD:

Just a matter of minutes ago the OpenPandora.org team, makers of the homebrew software friendly gaming handheld Pandora, released a video of it in action!

Here we can see the emulator FinalBurnAlpha running the game DoDonPachi. The performance is amazing, running nearly twice as fast as the normal framerate when allowed to go as fast as it can. Even better, this is at 500MHz. With reports of Pandora possibly hitting 900MHz, imagine the possibilities!

Video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dESG-xAYM

http://www.zodttd.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2625

While the Pandora is not public yet, first developers as ZodTTD do already have a devboard. Here is a video of PSX4Pandora, which is a Playstation 1 emulator.

http://www.zodttd.com/video/play.php?vid=180

The first devers already got the new powerful handheld device “Pandora” and DJWillis had progress on a ScummVM port:

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I have had a basic version up and running on the OMAP3 for some time and there will be a Pandora optemised official version (rather then just a simple ARM cross compile) in time for release (I hope, depends on my own free time).

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=41892