I have one too. Love it and use it all the time. Especially for ogg playback in my vehicle. One thing I would really love to do with it is connect it to my MIDI keyboards through its serial port. Does anyone know if this is possible? > wow, well thats a hell of a lot more than i thought would run on it... > pretty impressive for such a small device actually... > > any thoughts on the 5500 vs. the new one?... > i like the look of the older one better... but writing might not be as > easy... > > thanks! > > m~ > > Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:04:25PM +0000, iriXx wrote: > >>hi all... > >> > >>just wondering if there are any Zaurus users on the list - the older > >>version not the new one... > > > > I have one. > > > >>i've seen one in action and i know its got good media player facilities > >>- some kind of xmms i seem to recall?... but im curious as to what else > >>will run on it... > > > > Yes I guess it can to xmms. It also runs OpieMedia player (in OpenZaurus > > anyway) that is based on libxine. So it can also play divx movie files > > and stuff also. > > You can install csounds on it. But there are not to many programs for > > creating multimedia on it. Don't experct to do any realtime stuff with > > csounds on the zaurus. You can render it and then listen to it. Even as > > root user my 5500 sounds real choppy when trying to play a sine wave a > > 44.1k 16bit in real time with csounds. > > > > check out zaurus software index and decide for your self. (I mostly use > > it for the calender features, address, todo, and checkbook apps): > > http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/ > > > > Jeremiah > > > >>thinking about getting one as a replacement to the laptop i thoroughly > >>destroyed yesterday. dropped it from a bench, shattered screen and > >>damaged motherboard. i'll be lucky if i get the data back. compaq > >>armada's are flimsy things - if it had been the Dell i used to have, > >>chances are it might have been salvagable.... > >> > >>thankx > >> -- Jim Hines Redhat Linux 9 Athlon XP2100+ cd /pub; more beer
