Pandora

The Pandora , with a 900MHz ARM processor, 430MHz DSP and 3D graphics hardware, will be the most powerful handheld system yet, when it's released later this year. Its Linux operating system allows the Pandora to run emulators of many popular games consoles and computers, or even a full desktop environment.

Software

Having preordered one of the first 4000 Pandoras available in the first shipment, I have already started working on ports of some popular software for use on this new system. These will all be available from the Pandora file archive as soon as they're confirmed to work properly.

Frotz

A straight compile of the Frotz Infocom/Z-Machine interpreter, as currently maintained by David Griffith.

Download: frotz-2.43.zip (409 KB)

FUSE - The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator

Philip Kendall's FUSE Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator, slightly modified for the relative path system used on the Pandora [see this patch].

Download: fuse-0.9.0.zip (7.8 MB)

SIMH

Bob Supnik's SIMH compiled and packaged for the Pandora. Simulators a lot of old systems like the PDP-11, IBM mainframes, etc.

Download: simh-3.8.zip (2.3 MB)

Backgrounds

Here are a few of "wallpaper" backgrounds I knocked up for the Pandora. Click the thumbnails for the fullsize images (800x480 pixels).

Mock-up

I made this mock-up Pandora in order to visualise a couple of modifications I was thinking about. Should you wish to build one, you can download a PDF file conatining the nets for the full-colour version pictured or an ink-saving outline version. The overall size is that stated on the wiki , but as the rest was eye-balled from the available renders, I can't vouch for any other dimensions.