Category Archives: Hardware

Archos 70 Mini Review – Turns Out Not To Be A Small iPad

  By Doug | November 21, 2010 - 9:01 pm | Hardware, Reviews
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From the official Archos site:

Slim and light Android™ internet tablet

At home and on the go. The slim and light design of the ARCHOS 70 internet tablet makes it both portable and generous for sharing your best moments with your family and friends. All the functions of a computer: your apps, the Internet, your photos, music and videos, eBooks and 3D games.

Background.
There are wheens of these things about. Go Google for Android Tablet and see whatr happens. There is the Android Vega (whichy I initially considered), Creative Zii0, Samsung Galaxy Tabs and more coming to an Internet near you by Christmas time. I have played with an iPad for a few days and can safely say the Archos 70 is not really better in any way. Except two.

The Gizmondo As A Modern Handheld Console

  By Doug | May 2, 2008 - 10:50 pm | Hardware, Reviews
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Right then a slightly bigger write up of the Gizmondo scene as it is today. After a thorough few days of investigation.

Firstly these things still seem to be fairly easy to buy from both Amazon and eBay. Funnily enough Amazon does seem to be slightly cheaper. I got mine for about forty quid as I was aware that at least there used to be a homebrew scene once people learned how to run unsigned code.

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Improved Guide To Burning Dreamcast Discs From Linux

  By Doug | February 29, 2008 - 9:44 pm | Guides, Hardware, Software
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Here is my attempt to rewrite the guide to burning dreamcast discs from Linux.

It is an updated and enhanced version of this post:

Burning Dreamcast CDRs from Linux

Which is stolen from here:

Using mkisofs and cdrecord to Burn a Dreamcast CD-R

My plan is to break down the guide a little more and give better explanations about what is happening at each stage. This was done on an Ubuntu desktop machine running the development release of Hardy Heron on 2 March 08.

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