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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Dingo_aus on February 27, 2006, 07:25:16 AM

Title: A500 ported to GP2X (ARM9 based Hand-held)
Post by: Dingo_aus on February 27, 2006, 07:25:16 AM
The GP2X is a Dual core 200MHz ARM9 handheld system running Linux. Released just before Christmas 2005 costing USD$169.

I have one and they rock.

Anyway, work has been doen recently to port the UAE4ALL emulator to it.

A thread about it exists here
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=25402&st=0

Just thought I'd mention that the "U" in UAE seems to be quite applicable when I'm on the bus playing Turrican :)

The official site for the GP2X is http://www.gp2x.com/
Title: Re: A500 ported to GP2X (ARM9 based Hand-held)
Post by: Chunder on February 27, 2006, 09:19:50 AM
Sweeeeet! :-D

22 pages of discussion is a bit much to get through so early in the morning, though...

/me wonders whether it would be possible to get the USB interface to masquerade as a serial port for things like Stunt Car Racer... :-)
Title: Re: A500 ported to GP2X (ARM9 based Hand-held)
Post by: on February 27, 2006, 05:24:36 PM
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Just thought I'd mention that the "U" in UAE seems to be quite applicable when I'm on the bus playing Turrican :)


UNIX. :-?
Title: Re: A500 ported to GP2X (ARM9 based Hand-held)
Post by: coldfish on February 28, 2006, 04:06:26 AM
A virtual Handheld Amiga! Very good to see.  

I think a GP2X will be making itself at home in my handheld collection very soon.

Not a bad price either...
Title: Re: A500 ported to GP2X (ARM9 based Hand-held)
Post by: Dingo_aus on February 28, 2006, 05:43:19 AM
U is for ubitquitous

and yeah the gp2x platform is a good one imo.

Amiga support is still not perfect but is being worked on all the time and it is all open sourced so everyone gets to play :)

(It has Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulation that is pretty close to 100% amongst others)

I think it might be a while before everything that runs on a A500 will run on the GP2X - 2x 200Mhz ARM9 cores aren't super fast when it comes to emulation of course.