The Goldfish Chronicles

I’m drooling in happiness.

This thing rocks. The new Sharp PDA, ordered from dynamism.com from the proceeds of my company’s sale [okay, maybe just my personal proceeds and not the entire sale… shock news…company sold for 800 dollars…gives money all to immigrant developer].

Took me under an hour to hang it by installing missile command [great game on zaurus] which hung and needed me to remove the expanded battery to get it to work.

Atomic [another game] pretty much works with some minor GUI issues. Iceblox fails. An mpeg on my SD that used to be playable is no longer playable. I think it must be because it is mpeg 2 and not 4? Or something. Will have to learn more on that. Video player is mostly still in japanese, so a bit confusing.

Old Java entries get installed into the Jeode menu, which isn’t shown. So you have to edit the tabs-menu [which is easy] and push them into Java or Games.

All in all… very sexy hardware 10/10. It has a scrolly-wheel in the perfect place, ok/cancel buttons there too, lovely keys, a beautiful screen. Only downside on hardware is that I thought it was silver and not half white. Silver would match my powerbook, instead my wife is comparing it to her iBook.

Software wise… nothing stunning on top of the c5000d. There’s a pipe symbol on the keyboard, but no escape key. A shame they don’t throw more of the open source stuff on to make the machine look more impressive. 7/10 on the software I think. It was the part of the c5000d that I liked.

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