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[MiniSinisterMinister]

I still like to play classic games and I am mainly looking for a platform for emulation other than the PC because everytime I change my PC it affects emulation. It happend several times in the past that most of the fast emulators I used didn't work on my new PC anymore and I had to resort to other slow ones because they were the only ones which worked. Remeber the transition from Dos to Windows emus? - new PC => slower emulators?!. Also some PC emus are released without full screen or joypad support in the beginning. That's so stupid. The prospect of advanced emulators is what made me really pay the €250.

Apart fromt the emulation aspect, it would also be very cool if I could replace all other mobile devices with just one Pandora. I hope that quality of audio and video playback will be good and I am also thinking about ordering a USB UMTS stick for the Pandora. If I could also use a small spreadsheet and word processor applicaton, I wouldn't need another mobile device in the next 5 years. It could do everything.

[wesbrown18]

I didn't select any of these, because the answer is 'all of the above'.

I'm a retor-gamer fan, and I have a collection of older games.

I'm a homebrew fan, in that I like seeing original efforts at games.

And I'm a Unix enthusiast. Note: Not 'Linux'.

[Schprlock]

This is not fair... I am all of the above (1st poll) except the one who didn't preorder.... And I could only pick one...
They should be checkboxes.

[hch]

I'm nothing of the above. I'm a hardware geek mostly interested in it's UMPC potential and have an affectation for ID games and RPGs(not the modern japanese kiddie-graphics style, more the medieval warrior/wizard-style). I've started with Commodore 16/116/Plus4 followed by Amiga 500 and it will be fun to play some games because of the nostalgic feeling, but if it wasn't available, I wouldn't care. I've never owned a console and won't buy one in the future, so I don't care about that emulation either, except for PC games, that have a console version. An "Other"-option would be nice. I can't vote, for now.

sounds like a typical 'linux enthusiast' to me

[mali]

sounds like a typical 'linux enthusiast' to me

It would be the nearest option, but it would be dishonest, because I'm still a linux-n00b but at least with enthusiast potential My one and only experience with linux is Maemo and KDE on N800 so far

[Pleng]

Retro Gamer here. The keyboard combined with gaming controls really makes this device stand out from any other on the market.

I also intend to use it for recording/writing lecture notes at university, and listening to music & viewing video files on the move.

[TaG]

I've not voted. I'm not primarily a retro fan but do like retro games. I wasn't a homebrew fan but there are some projects out there that are going to change that. I like using linux and have some knowledge, but 'enthusiast' sounds too deep. I think a better description is handheld fan -I want a handheld that does any and all this stuff.

I didn't have a GP2X but did have a GP32 for a while. I have pre-ordered.

I'm really tired about the situation of the games industry. Current games are too centered in audiovisual experience and forget the gameplay and fun. Games are too complex in the technical stuff that they got less funny and more into impressing to people in the tech stuff aka graphic whores and those terms.

I agree. Sometimes the games are also so complicated that you almost have to 'specialise' in them.
I love games where you can pick them up for a few minutes, enjoy it and put them down again. Or still be playing hours later.

[BenT]

Not necessarily a "home-brew" fan and, whilst retro is interesting, I've only ever played an hour or so of them on MAME. Best category would have to be "Linux enthusiast", but that's only because I am looking forward to developing on the Pandora as a gaming device and know how to code games on that platform *shrug*

It is good to see I am in the company of alot of "pre-orderers" who have never owned a GP* previously. Given over half the respondents fit into this category - it makes posts I have made elsewhere (about customer nervousness, etc) at least fit the facts of this poll

[lardman]

Certainly not a gaming fan, at least not on a handheld, I've got a perfectly good dual core machine with lots of RAM and a big screen for that.

I'm interested in platform development, 3D drivers (for cool UI more than games, though they are cool when they show off the hardware's abilities), DSP programming, video decoding, that sort of stuff.

[Creature XL]

Some people seem to asume the Pandora's audience is somewhat the same as the gp2x-community. I wonder if that still applies and therefor created this poll.

I want to congratulate you for this ecellent poll.
We had many polls which most were just stupid and I didn't even considered to take part.

And the answers (till now) are even more interessting. I am not surprised that the most here on this forum haven't had a GP32 or Gp2x but it is good to see that it is like this.

thank you

[Eternalodyssey]

I am mostly a Linux enthusiast with some gaming desires. As of this year I am a Linux convert from M$ and I like to explore all the Linux I can get my hands on. I truly think open source can bring revolutionary ideas, like the Pandora.

[cosurgi]

I'm a linux enthusiast and I never had gp2x. But I like old games a lot, too! But what is homebrew?

I think that most happy hours with pandora will be hacking games on the go, not necessarily playing them. Or playing them, to test them. But of course I'll be playing ZX80 games, etc, but that won't be those most happy hours

Why hacking on the go, and not at desktop? Because when I'm at desktop I usually have some boring reallife work to do.

[TaG]

But what is homebrew?

When I was younger 'homebrew' always meant beer you made at home. Now it means games that are made 'at home'.

[cosurgi]

But what is homebrew?

When I was younger 'homebrew' always meant beer you made at home. Now it means games that are made 'at home'.

aah, then I qualify too, perhaps just a little, because I wrote only less than a dozen of small games which nobody played except me and my friends

[hells_dark]

I voted homebrew fan but actually, i'm also a retro gamer, and a big linux enthusiast.

I don't have a gp2x, but i've watched this forum for a long time.

Edited by hells_dark, 07 December 2008 - 05:07 PM.