Wed, 27 May 2009 12:32:10 +0200 hando@gp32x.com (GP32X.com - GP32 GP2X Pandora The Wiz - open source entertainment) IP.Blog 60
The next thing I added was the list of devices at the top of my signature. I have listed all major handhelds I own, starting from the GBA I bought at launch, up to my lovely but not quite working Openmoko Neo1973 phone. It's all Nintendo's fault, really, as they sent me a copy of Pokémon Silver for free (Still no idea why...) and I had to get a device to play it on, after borrowing my friends Game Boy Pocket for a few months. (Can't wait for Soul Silver! ) My love for gaming handhelds really got started when I got one of the first GBA flashcards. (A Visoly 64 Mbit!) I used it mainly to watch music videos, read 1984 and play lots of awesome homebrew. In early 2004 I upgraded to the Tapwave Zodiac, after watching in awe as it was released and it's scene unfolded. It's still the best handheld gaming device on the planet, at least until the Pandora is released. The first working Transport Tycoon handheld port (ZodTTD got his name from it!), great emulators, watching movies in bed, an amazing number of high quality indie Palm games... The Zodiac pretty much did anything I wanted. Unfortunately, people didn't take it seriously and it failed commercially. I'm still bitter about the scam that was the Gizmondo which stole a lot of thunder and developers the Zodiac would have deserved much more. I tried to move on from my little black aluminum beauty but the GP2X and Neo1973 were both somewhat unfulfilling devices. The Nintendo DS proved to be fascinating but it was seriously outdated technology from the beginning. I'm desperate for the Pandora because I'm pretty sure it will finally fill the empty space in my heart the Zodiac has left there.

The latest thing I added to my sig are the links to the Pirate Party and Freenet. Both are very important projects that may have a decisive role in our future. We need to defend our personal freedoms which are endangered by narrow minded governments all over the world. Making copyright laws even more extreme, keeping track of everybody's movement, censoring the internet and baning video games are not the right answers to the challenges file sharing, terrorism, child pornography and school massacres present. That's why I've become involved in politics for the first time in my life. I don't want people with no clue about technology to decide about my future and, as paranoid as it may sound, I want to prevent Germany from being run by a totalitarian government ever again. That's why a working democracy and separation of power need to be preserved. Freenet is the software to use when this goes wrong. It's designed to be an uncensorable, completely anonymous file sharing tool. The technology is fascinating and with some bad luck, it could become important much earlier than you might think.]]> Fri, 22 May 2009 23:34:18 +0200