11 Facts About Open Pandora

Open Pandora is an operating system, handheld game console and mobile personal computer originally released in 2010.

Development of the Open Pandora began when Craig Rothwell, Fatih Kilic, Michael Mrozek and Michael Weston teamed up and planned a portable system that would excel in the areas where they thought the GP32 and GP2X systems were flawed.

The Pandora was designed based on ideas and suggestions contributed by GP32X forum members, with the goal of creating the ultimate open source handheld device.

In February 2008 the Open Pandora wiki had already been created; as of 2014, it contains a thousand pages and is translated with the MediaWiki Translate extension.

One of Open Pandora's major intended uses is for homebrew gaming and for the emulation of older computer systems and video game consoles, which is possible through efficient use of the resources made available by the Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 SoC.

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The Open Pandora developers have already shown working emulators for Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Amiga, SNES, Atari Jaguar and Sega Mega Drive software, and the Open Pandora is thought by its developers to have the potential to emulate most if not all machines older than the Dreamcast.

Open Pandora is compatible with Debian packages built for the ARM architecture using APT.

Open Pandora Apps was launched by Craig Rothwell in May 2010, and is designed for viewing on the Open Pandora's smaller screen resolution.

Open Pandora Repo was developed by a member of the community with help from the community.

Open Pandora Repo is the first that uses the community created REPO specifications which allows native clients to get applications from the pandora repo without actually visiting the website .

Open Pandora community is notable for the development of tools required to achieve several successful static recompilations of complex binary software to the Open Pandora platform.