On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:04:25PM +0000, iriXx wrote: I have one. 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

On Thursday 06 November 2003 19:22, iriXx wrote: Well, I have a 5500 and a client of mine has a 5600. The 5600 has a processor that's about twice as fast, comes back from sleep much more nicely, and has a little built in speaker (as opposed to the 5500 where you have to use the headphone jack to hear anything beyond keyclick.) The 5500 is also half as much though. I'm still using the stock ROM (not Opie) so I haven't experimented much with composition (I'm thinking a tracker type of thing or maybe timidity would be the best i could hope for) nor with music recording (I think I'd rather use my notebook plus UA-30 for signal acquisition than the little headphone jack on the Z.) I think if I were going to spend more than 200 bucks on a PDA I'd go all the way and get the C750/760 (sort of like a linux tablet PC, only the size of a zaurus.) But the 5600 is already a potentially faster machine than my last laptop.... so it should at least handle some rudimentary software mixing and sample playback. Rob

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