Eve, VIA x86 handheld gamemachine.

[Dan]

Interesting use of an NanoITX-board

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1591540,00.asp

[Dan]

It´s on slashdot too:
http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/05/13/2240258.shtml?tid=127&tid=137&tid=186&tid=207

Look here for the specs:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/eve.jsp

System:
  · 533 MHz Eden-N Processor  
· 133MHz Bus  
· SSE and MMX instruction Set support  
· 128MB DDR266 SDRAM  
· High-Performance 64-bit DDR SDRAM Controller  
· 20GB Hard Drive - Data transfer rates of up to 133 MB/s    Graphics:  
· VIA CN400 Digital Media Chipset - Integrates S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro Graphics Core  
· 200Mhz Graphics Engine Clock  
· 128-bit 3D Graphics Engine  
o Pixel rate up to 200 million pixels per second, 2 textures each  
o Triangle rate up to 4.5 million triangles per second
o Microsoft DirectX 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 compatible  
o Microsoft DirectX Texture Compression (DXTC, S3TC)  
o OpenGL? Support  o Z-bias, LOD-bias, Polygon Offset, Edge Anti-aliasing and Alpha Blending  
o Specular Lighting  MPEG2 & MPEG4 Hardware decoding      Audio:  
· VIA Vinyl Six-channel Audio  
LCD Display  
The Eve Mobile Gaming Console integrates a 4", 640x480 TFT LCD screen. In supporting up to 640x480 resolutions, the Eve Console can easily play all PC games natively.    
Hard Drive  
The Eve Console includes a single 1.8" 20GB hard drive for storing the OS and the game data. This is sufficient to store a large library of games and digital media content. This is transferred to the system either via wireless LAN or by USB2.0 pass-through to a PC.  
Batteries
Prismatic Lithium-Ion batteries are the current favorite choice for the console. Two packs of batteries are provided so that the batteries can be hot-swapped for continuous, uninterrupted play.    
Port List  The ports that are user-accessible on the Eve Console include:  
· Power jack (DC barrel type)  
· 2x USB 2..0 jacks (Type A host style)  
· 1x Compact FLASH type II slot  
· 2x battery slots (as specified as handgrips)  
· 1x smartcard card slot (15mm x 1mm slot)  
· 2x 1/8? stereo jack for headphones out & microphone in  
· 1x 1/8? stereo jack for composite video out  
· 802.11b wireless LAN    
Button List  
· D-pad (WASD)  
· L/R triggers  
· Cluster of 4 action buttons  
· Line of 6 auxiliary function buttons
   
* Please note: The specification provided above is for the initial reference design and may be subject to change.

It´runs  Windows XP Embedded.
Looks perfect to run WinUAE and other emulators on.

[Quixote]

;-) With a USB port, one should (theoretically) be able to add a hub, and then a keyboard, mouse, floppy drive, and so on.  This could allow one to install any software desired, including productivity software such as MS Office and so on.  Add a network port and notebook computers are looking at competition.

Of course, using such a thing without bringing the keyboard along would be awkward, but there was a battery powered laser beam keyboard announced earlier....

[bloodline]

Looks perfect to run WinUAE and other emulators on.

Well I was thinking more along the lines of AROS :-D

[Dan]

Quixote wrote:
;-) With a USB port, one should (theoretically) be able to add a hub, and then a keyboard, mouse, floppy drive, and so on.  This could allow one to install any software desired, including productivity software such as MS Office and so on.  Add a network port and notebook computers are looking at competition.

Of course, using such a thing without bringing the keyboard along would be awkward, but there was a battery powered laser beam keyboard announced earlier....

That laser keyboard will have many disadvangates against a real one for example it needs a flat surface. I would prefer a USB-minikeyboard.
Or one could VNC to it from a pda.