Pandora Open Source Portable Console Plays Quake [Video]
March 24, 2009 by srfto
Pandora is a open source portable console which was designed based on the input of thousands of forum users with one goal in mind – to make the ultimate open source handheld device.
It is designed as an ultra portable open source computer with gaming controls, it is very small, around about the same size as a DS. It can easily fit in your pocket.
It is, without doubt, the most powerful portable games system ever and at the time of writing the most powerful mini computer, too. It has openGL 2.0 3D hardware, a 600-900Mhz CPU, media coprocessors, an 800×480 LCD and 128MB of RAM. The killer app with the hardware is that it is using an ARM Cortex A8 CPU, meaning astonishing battery life -over ten hours- which blows away similar mini PCs based on the old x86 chipsets. You will be able to play games like Quake III with ease and at the cutting edge even Doom III (if the engine goes open source soon, of course).
Here is their latest video of the Pandora playing Quake:
If you are interested and have any ideas you should head over to their forums because they actually listen to it which is rare these days, or just go and say they doing a great job on it.
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Just wanted to correct this: Actually the Pandora comes with 256MB of RAM (not only 128) and the CPU will run at 600MHz.
Ehm,
dont flood the forum with unnesessary things.
hardware changes will probably dont happen in this stage of production
and the pandora can be overclocked to 900MHz, it will lessen the battery life but increase the power(obviously).