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I really hope that there is still time to purchase the SE, I'm going to be so bummed if I miss out on such an opportunity.

It's still possible to purchase a GCW Zero 512MB edition for as long as it doesn't give you the message that they're sold out.

Quote from: 8BitKid on July 21, 2012, 11:36:24 PM

I'd be happy to setup a new forum site if they don't have the time to create one that we could use as a place to talk about the GCW.

Maybe this won't be necessary. Maybe we just need a new name for the Dingoonity forum because the Dingoo A-320 is EOL.

We talked about porting OD to the Dingoo A-380 and A-320e on the GCW Zero Support Channel but I've got to agree with Ayla that it's to late. Porting OD to a new device takes a lot of time. It's better to use that time to spend it on further development of the GCW Zero because the Dingoo A-380 and A-320e have now become obsolete. 

Seems to me like the 320's been EOL for quite some time now...  I hardly ever bother looking in the 320 specific forums, just like I no longer bother to look in the A330/380 sub-forums...

Applications working: at most it should be a matter of recompiling some/probably all of them to advantage of extra features of the 4770 SoC and lib revisions, etc. shipped with whatever versions come with linux on the zero...

PSX SHOULD be just about perfect, or be made so eventually.  N64, personally don't care about it, and it does have a fairly complex architecture(although nothing like the Jaguars) probably would do pretty well, maybe close to perfect too.

I think that the real feat would be to do a good Jaguar emulator, 3 main CPUs to emulate(none MIPS, 1(2? don't remember any longer) 68ks and 1(or 2) custom RISC) plus a ton of custom support chips. (Amazing how they went from simple/cheap 520/1040ST(Commodore roots show here, e.g. very C64 like) to the Jaguar... it's almost like they got the REAL old Atari guys back from Commodore(Amiga really) to design the jaguar for them with all of it's custom chips, just like the Atari 8bits and the Amigas.)

Wow this new images are incredible every day i love more the project only i have a question this device going to be good in terms of audio quality  because I see plays FLAC archives?

Ahhhhhh, sweet, delicious pics. It's great that the photographer has learned to disable the low-res-Sasquatch-photo effect mode.

Can't wait to get mine. Thanks for the size comparison, it's a little more compact than I had imagined it. Maybe I'll pass the time waiting by making and decorating a shoebox home for the little guy. jk

It's still unbelieveable that some people are running away from a project that has so much potential for such little expense. If they can't afford it I guess it's best they back out now rather than later after they get the final invoice and decide they can't pay.

I'd hate to go off topic but if we're experiencing a 10% pre-order withdrawal rate, it makes me wonder that with the Ouya being so far away from production- how many cancellations will they have? ...oh wait, that's a moot point. Unlike GCW's project, there are no refunds for Kickstarter projects! Yay, problem solved!

Great to see the pictures comparing the GCW Zero to other consoles, it seems to be a great size.

With regards to a home for the GCW forum, today's update was cross-posted on Open Pandora, so it definitely would be helpful to make one place the definitive home for all things. Is the Dingoo really EOL? If there is no successor planned to the A380 and the GCW is going to be the successor for the scene, it would be nice to make this the official place to discuss the GCW, so information isn't scattered across different forums and the GCW team doesn't have to go to two different places to talk with us.

I can't wait to learn more about this. It's exciting to have a new Linux-based handheld that seems high-quality. Hopefully we'll get developer momentum as well.

Great to see the pictures comparing the GCW Zero to other consoles, it seems to be a great size.

With regards to a home for the GCW forum, today's update was cross-posted on Open Pandora, so it definitely would be helpful to make one place the definitive home for all things. Is the Dingoo really EOL? If there is no successor planned to the A380 and the GCW is going to be the successor for the scene, it would be nice to make this the official place to discuss the GCW, so information isn't scattered across different forums and the GCW team doesn't have to go to two different places to talk with us.

I can't wait to learn more about this. It's exciting to have a new Linux-based handheld that seems high-quality. Hopefully we'll get developer momentum as well.

The Dingoo A-320 is really EOL. I think there aren't any hardware parts available anymore.

If Dingoonity is going to be the place for the GCW Zero is difficult to say. I know that a lot of developers are going to be really dissapointed if it doesn't run on OD. It kind a worries me because that would probably mean that we won't see a lot of updates if it doesn't run on OD. Only time can tell.

Weren't the plans initially the the Zero might support OD after release? Does that mean it will now never support OD, or was it just confirmed that it won't be launching with OD?

Nothing is confirmed. All I know is that GCW didn't contact the OD developers.