AGS Games on the go

[hydromike182]

I know for a fact this issue has been brought up before. I'm just going to ask anyways. There is a new hand held system called the GP2x. It is the Successer to the GP32. It is a Linux based hand held system. The main fuction of the device it homebrew developement. My questions is, is it possible to portÃ,  AGS so it can run on the GP2x.

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!

It's open. You want to develop your own games for the GP2X? Go right ahead. The SDK is included with the system free. Not since the days of the Amiga has a system been so easy to develop for, commercially and for fun.

The GP2X isn't just another wannabe be Gameboy. Its a whole different design. A whole new idea for a handheld games system.

But wait, we're not new to the scene. Heard of the GP32? An accidental experiment in an open source handheld that went right. Some 30,000 units were sold worldwide, mostly in the UK and parts of Europe. The machine has an astonishing following. The GP2X is the successor

More info and pics at: www.gp2x.co.uk

[Kweepa]

If you knew for a fact it had been brought up before, why didn't you take the 5 seconds to do a search for GP2X on the forums to find:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23569.0
where they discuss the linux AGS port ACTUALLY RUNNING ON THE GP2X?
Or could it be because this is just an advertisement?

[hydromike182]

thanx for the answer, and the sacaz. I'm not an advertisment just curious. 

[Kweepa]

Good to see you're not a one-post wonder, and apologies for the sarcasm.
It's a cool machine and if I was in the market for a handheld I'd definitely buy one over a DS or PSP.
Cheers.

[hydromike182]

I read bits and peices everywhere but nothing stating wether it is possible or not. I'm sure it is possible but has the work been done is the question