pandora OS ported to n900?
 

i wonder if it could be done. since pandora and n900 have very similar hardware... maybe a dual boot option like it had been done for the android port?

maybe i'im wrong but it might resolve many problems for gaming and maybe ofer gpu compatibility.

pandora OS source code: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi


pandora specs: http://www.open-pandora.org/index.ph...emid=6&lang=en

Re: pandora OS ported to n900?
 

I'm sure it could be done relatively easily. But the Pandora OS has support for all the extra keys (buttons and pads and corner keys and nubs and whatnot) which the N900 doesn't have. So it'll be quite crippled on the N900.

For myself I'm more interested in cross-compatible executables. There's been some testing on that.

Re: pandora OS ported to n900?
 

there os always something called sixaxis controller.

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What's so special about Pandora's OS?
I was under the impression that the main selling point of Pandora (among Cortex A8 linux-y handhelds) is their gaming-ready hardware..

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the pandora has a ton of emulators and they all run smooth on it. its a lightweight os and so it can do all emulation without hassle. best part is that it has the same processor etc as the n900. so if the pandora is ported to n900, we could play ps1, n64 etc games smoothly.

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having pandora os would give us the possibility of geting all the pandora games working with very few work

i'm thinking of the emulators using the gpu for example...

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I love this idea, it would compensate for all the missing apps and games on the n900. Since the community is already at a stand still, no big name companies in site o.o for like 6 months, developers are appearing less in the forum and those remaining are disappearing and no big news about n900 for the past 2-3 weeks. This pandora os thing is a great idea, I think someone else mentioned it already though.

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is anyone interested in porting the pandora os on to the n900?

i found the link to the firmware and source if that helps.:cool:

http://openpandora.org/firmware/

Re: pandora OS ported to n900?
 

Well, yeah the advantage would be all of the emulators and games but they're all open source and wouldn't be much of a hassle to just compile them for maemo.
While we're on that subject, anyone willing to recompile a GBA emu from pandora to maemo 5? :D

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Quick note...
Seriously, can it be done?
Light-weight operating system for N900, without eye-candy...
Is anything like this anywhere in the whole world?

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It's a helluva lotta work for what would be a 5-10% increase in performance. And it would make things far more complicated anyway as every game would have to be recompiled anyway to run with different controls (as I'm assuming the majority would have Pandora dependant control schemes).

Re: pandora OS ported to n900?
 

There are many small linux distros as well such as tiny linux etc etc. Although I am not sure if they got many apps.