[plug] GP2X Dual CPU Linux Driven Handheld games console

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http://gp2x.co.uk/indexgp2x.html

Has anyone seen it live or played with it?
I hope to get one around the end of the month. I might even get around
to developing some stuff.


>From the website:

To sum up the GP2X:

It can play games. It can play your Movies. It can play your music. It
can view photos. It can read Ebooks. It runs on just 2 AA batteries -
And it can do all this in the palm of your hand or on your TV screen.

Yes that's right, this handheld can connect to the TV, console style.
Watch your DivX movies on the TV. Play emulated classics on the TV. Try
big screen Quake. Or just play them all on the GP2X's large 320*240
backlit screen. You get the best of both worlds.

It runs the free Linux operating system. This means a whole world of
Games, Utilities and Emulators are at your disposal. Quake, Doom, SNES,
Megadrive, MAME, Media players and Applications to name just a few.

It's powerful - Two 200mhz CPU's with 64meg of RAM, custom graphics
hardware and decoding chips. Takes SD cards and has 64M of NAND memory.
Plenty to play with. One of the most powerful and advanced handhelds today.

That means it can play movies without any re-encoding. Just put them
onto an SD card. Any size. Any resolution. No messing about. The GP2X
scaling chip will resize to fit the screen. No other handheld can do that.