the gp2x just plain rocks. nothing quite like having
a completed
linux platform in your pocket, running thousands and thousands of
games, and soon .. music software of note. for example, i think you
can all expect to see news about drum machines, trackers, sequencers,
patch librarians, and editors, on the gp2x platform, in the coming
weeks and months .. not bad for a battery-powered pocket, portable
linux device.
exciting, but it will be completely divergent from the intel/ppc world
because of the floating point issue.
this is really a great shame. floating point versus fixed point samples
will reach deep into most audio/music software, and certainly deep in
JACK. i can just about begin to imagine how one might write a JACK and a
JACK client that could run on fixed or floating point, but beginning is
where i give up.
--p