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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: AJBR20 Dying?Re: AJBR20 Dying?
From: Joseph Jones <joe_at_bumpycarrot.cjb.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:43:58 +0100 This is the same problem we always run into when discussing this, and with some reason. Similar vein to my post on this thread, which I suspect didn't get through: http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2004-06/0215.shtml If only I had the mad skills to figure out an XClef :( Joe Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Mat Holton wrote: > > >>XClef...is it the way forward? > > > It might be. > > No matter what specific hardware/player the way forward is, is totally up to > the people who buys it, takes it apart into tiny pieces, researches the lot, > starts dissassembling the code, getting manuals and setting up compilers etc. > > Rockbox isn't available on Archos because some people thought Archos players > was a good platform to write code for. It is available for Archos since this > is the only platform on the market today that people have succeeded to > properly reverse engineer[*]. (Since this was the actual player these people > had that they got fed up with.) > > Once someone discovers and understands the internals of player X, we can make > Rockbox run on player X. > > That "someone" would need clues, time and some equipment. > > There's an army of Rockbox hackers that would help anyone make it run on > whatever player we can imagine. > > So, go ahead and buy those new cool players, rip them apart and figure out how > to reprogram them. > > [*] = The Neo Players can also run Rockbox, or rather the fork of Rockbox > named Open Neo, but this player is not supported by Rockbox since the > Open Neo guys aren't as "open" as they make it sound. Also, they didn't > need to reverse-engineer their player since the company SSI is backing this > up (even paying them). > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-06-04 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |