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By gp2.eXe, November 27, 2009 6:00 pm

We told you we were not dead, right? Well, here we go with one of the latest news from EvilDragon:

“Your all waiting for more shiny case pictures, right? Well… we all are.
However, I did make a fault with my last blog post – as the pictures had been released, I assumed the shipment to Michael was on the way. It isn’t yet – sorry about that, I was so excited about that myself, I really thought it was on the way.

The reason the cases are not yet on the way to Michael is that one mould still had a problem with the shrinking. What’s that, you might ask? Well, due to the big heat and cooling off afterwards, the material shrinks a bit – and if the mould is not perfectly adjusted, it doesn’t fit 100% or will look ugly.
To adjust it perfectly it has to be done a bit via a trial and error method: Check where the shrinking occurs, change the mould there, try again, etc.
It’s nothing major and no problem at all, it’s a normal process in mould creation and shouldn’t take more than a couple of days. We’re still trying to ship as many as possible before christmas!

I thought I’d just let you know

Back to some got news: The board production is still going fine. Everything is ready for the big run, it looks like there won’t be any delay here, yeeha.

As there was a discussion about suspend, etc. going on at the boards: We’re working on a temporary solution as REAL suspend to RAM is pretty complicated and will definately take a while. Therefore, we include as much power saving functions as possible to make it similar to suspend. It’s basically the same way mobile phones and PDAs do work (they don’t suspend, otherwise you couldn’t get a phone call). With proper power management, this standby mode should long about 10 days until you need to recharge the battery, so that should be fine enough.
Of course, you can always shut the system down completely so it won’t need any more power at all

That’s it for today, let’s hope the shrinkage will be fixed really soon! ”

Credit goes to StalkS at GP32X for the heads up.

That would be it for the Pandora news, seems like we still have to wait a little bit more. Keep on checking!

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By Peter R, August 18, 2009 11:11 pm

The website for Wizzley Presto and the Mysterious Time Machine opened to the public on April 3rd of this year and the unique selling point was that the game would be finished in just 30 days, or so they claimed…

Interestingly the games main developer is Craig Rothwell who is far better known for starting the Pandora handheld project. Read more about the progress of the game after the jump.

Continue reading 'How To Make An iPhone Game In “30 days”'»

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By gp2.eXe, August 5, 2009 11:40 pm

This one popped a while ago on Craig’s YouTube account:

Is this the much awaited video?

Probably not since it was made by MWeston. Anyway, as long as it’s Pandora related, keep ‘em coming!

The choppy sound is a (hopefully) fixable problem.

And maybe the most important, Craig says in the YouTube page:

There is a new compilation video on the way.

And we’re ready for that.

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By gp2.eXe, July 8, 2009 4:49 am

We have a new blog post from EvilDragon, and oh boy! This one is something you really want to know!

Hi folks! You’ve been waiting for the weekly report, haven’t you?

Well, I’ve been very very busy with various things, so I coldn’t catch up with everything until now.
And I’ve got some short but really good news for you:

Dave finished every single step which was on the ToDo-List of the case!

This does mean, that the case moulding could start REALLY soon.

We’re currently waiting for a review from the company – and will tell you more about the status as soon as we get some more information!

Oh, on a side note, most parts for the boards have arrived in Dallas (95%). This means that mass production for the full 4000 run can most probably start as soon as we give them a green light (which means: After we tested the 105 boards).

This is definitely good news!

Yes folks, the end of the road is closer and closer, so keep in touch while we cover every exciting step for you.

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By gp2.eXe, July 2, 2009 5:55 pm

Craigix has made a new Twitter and this one sounds very interesting:

How do we decide who gets these first 100 Pandoras.. and how might we organise the feedback? For the sake of software should we go all devs?

I have an idea! Send them all to me and I’ll relieve you from the stress of deciding.

Heh, well no, not really. But if you future Pandora owner have a better idea  feel free to share it here.

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By gp2.eXe, June 30, 2009 2:52 am

No,  we haven’t just defeated a Slightly-Maniac-Cake-Loving Supercomputer. We received a new update from EvilDragon on the Official Blog:

Hi, it’s time again for the weekly report on what has happened.
Craig finally resolved the customs issue, so the parts (parts for 2000 Pandoras) finally are moving towards their destination.
The other 2000 parts did pass the customs without any problems a few days earlier, btw.
So, first test mass production is still due to be finished on July 20th (you know, the ones we ordered a while ago) and all the parts are also on their way – which means: COMPLETE mass production of the boards could be happening soon!

The final puzzle piece for the final unit is the case. What’s the status with that, you might ask?
Well, as said a while ago, Dave doesn’t have too much time at the moment, as he is very busy with his normal job. However, he continues to work on the case, day by day. And I’m really happy that the To-Do-List has really grown short.
So short, that he might even finish it within the next few days! There’s a light at the end of the tunnel! Finally, I can see it!

On to some other questions and stuff I’ve seen on the boards: A lot of guys are asking what happened to the video craig promised to you.
Well, as you all know, he planned shooting a long one. That does take time, though. And during that, the custom problems happened. Craig spent all days trying to resolve those issues… so he couldn’t spend any time on the video.
- And I guess you wouldn’t want more delay because of the video, right?
Also, there’s not too we could show you: You’ve seen the working prototype… and that is the last status before the FINAL unit is ready. I know you love videos… and the time between the protoype and the final unit seems endless – but there’s not much we can do except wait for it. Those things do take time and we also have to wait for the boards and cases to be finished.
Heh – you know what’s funny? I read somewhere on the boards that for some time moves so slowly while waiting for the Pandora… it’s the complete opposite for us. Time seems to fly by. Whoops, another week gone.

Let’s wait together, shall we? I know there are some OMAP3 devices coming – but none will be as open and supported for homebrew and Linux as the Pandora is.

Sure EvilDragon, we can wait, as long as you keep supplying us with delicious and moist… updates.

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