Also have one. Great mp3 and ogg player with tkcPlayer and a 1Gb microdrive. On Friday 07 November 2003 3:42 pm, Jim Hines wrote: > 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
