New Linux User

Pandora the Linux gaming handheld console

by Clair on May 7th, 2008

If you love games so much, why not keep an eye on Pandora? It’s the size of a DS but it has a QWERTY keyboard and gaming buttons. It will have a customized Debian-based Linux distro and so you could expect emulators to work on it as well as browsers.

It’s exciting because you could have the following emulated:

• Atari 2600, 7800, 5200, and Lynx
• Nintendo NES, SNES, Gameboy, and GBA
• Sega Master System and Genesis
• NEC PCEngine (TurboGrafx-16)
• SNK NeoGeo, NeoGeo Pocket, and Pocket Color
• Sony Playstation [2]
• Nearly any other console which predates the Playstation for which an open-source emulator exists

And it seems like there’s much more you could do than use it for gaming because of the QWERTY-based keyboard. Instant blogging! There’s also a video of mplayer on Pandora so it really looks interesting to me. Another cool factor: it says on the FAQs that you should probably be able to change the window manager/environment of it ;)

It’s expected to be released in June/July.

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