www.gp2x.co.uk NEWS LETTER

Hello Everyone, Craig here, from www.gp2x.co.uk, with a festive GP2X update.

So yes, we have made a 266mhz GP2X available on our website for those of you who want maximum power, but this is not all, there is so much news to get though... if you have been even slightly out of the loop you must read on...

Well, we finally got Payback2X finished with a demo being available here:

http://www.gp2x.co.uk/payback

And you can buy the full game for £22.99 from our website, it comes on a huge 512MB SD card and is seriously awesome - try the demo to see for yourself. We have 3 copies to give away later in the newsletter (just to keep you reading).

Last date for shipping is the 21st.

In other news things have really come together in the last few months for our little GP2X, first PicoDrive, the excellent Megadrive emulator, is now using both of the GP2X CPUs to great effect - giving around a 40% increase in speed meaning it now runs so fast you can underclock the GP2X when running it!

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=32632

The author, Notaz, has now turned his attention to GP2X SNES emulation:

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1860

Also, as you may have read on some news sites, the GP2X has officially outsold the GP32 in just over 10 months (the GP32 was on sale for 4 years). That means there are over 30,000 of us GP2X owners now. Woohoo!

Next up MAME is at version 3.7 and is without doubt the best and most polished version of MAME on any portable. Franxis has optimised the hell out of what was very very unoptimised code on the PC original to make a wonderful mobile video arcade for you, imagine that when you were cramming 10p's into a seven foot
tall Final Fight cabinet at the beach.

http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/

The Amiga is back (again!) with an all new GP2X amiga emu which already runs several games at full speed with sound, UAE2X is the name and GnoStic is the guy behind it, he has said he plans not only for it to get faster, but the ultimate goal is for it
to run as many Amiga MegaDemos as possible!

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=32534

An unexpected port of Descent 2 by Paines showed up recently, running suprisingly well for a first release, you will need your original PC version but it is certainly worth tracking it down to play this classic on the GP2X: ....


http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=32661&st=0

Lynx emulation has been pretty much perfected by tuskenraider2k with a new version of his emulator which fixes some previous bugs and gives a 10% speed increase.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1175

DJWillis's Scummvm port is now an official port and part of the SVN and Scumm website, ScummVM of course interprets classic graphical adventure games like Monkey Island and Beneath a Steel Sky:

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=32496

Oh and I've been busy this month too - I got a little tired of never being able to find an MP3 player for my car which did everything I wanted - so I'm working on one for the GP2X. It of course also works great as an MP3 player in general and I was
just slightly inspired by a certain WinAmp on the PC. It is even compatable with WinAmp playlists.

There are some betas available online, but i'll be making the first major release this week, keep an eye on http://www.gp32x.com.

Oh and for news on the up and coming CPS2 emu checkout gp32x.com, there is also a new emu for a certain popular handheld around too...

Oh yes, I almost forgot (information just seems to fall out of my brain these days) it's competition time! We have 3 copies of the new GP2X commercial game Payback to give away, just answer us this question one:

What is the earliest example of British TV sci-fi still in existance?

Put you answer on the back of a BBC news reader's crucifix and force it into the forehead of GP2X HQ at orders@cdworld.co.uk

- be quick - closing date is the 21st of December!

Take care and have fun over Christmas,

Craig