![]() all the banter we've had, someone could've just done it Quake and Descnt is a bit of work (I've always used the real deal from GoG/etc, but you can use shareware I think.) A lot of standalone games and such should be easy to just drop the pnd in the /pandora/menu in the torrent and good to go. I can zip up a pile of all legit stuff pretty easily. I can set up Gargoyle and Interactive Fiction for someone. That'd keep it a 2GB limit which might be handy for such a thing Then someone just pulls it and makes a torrent out, and piece of cake. Hell, we should just get a DropBox account for this purpose, and then let 3 or 4 people share the password and do the uploading to it. and I'm already maxxed out with all my sundry projects But I could, if people reeally want it and no one else wants to put it together. But then I'd be on the hook for maintaining/adding to it. I figure I coudl put together a decent collection in a couple hours if I wanted, and I could host the download or start off a torrent. just hit up any numbre of sites like TAFs or whatever (or I can prepare a few.) Likewise for Interactive Fiction for feedig to Gargoyle. provides some playability, and also illustrates folks where to put the files when they buy them, etc.) For non-emus, theres lots of good and easy pickings - like SucmmVM, just hit up the official ScummVM site and suck down a pile of publicly distributable games. such as the Shareware quake and Descent levels. (And optionally, some that do if the data-files are available. Prometheus - hwy not get it started? Just grab a bunch of good Pandora homebrew (from wiki, dl.open and appstore), that doesn't have ROM requirements at all. Presumably it would not be user uploaded we'd have a dictator who makes his torrent pack available, and presumably its clean, or people can let them know to clean it up. Of course, you wouldn't be able to distribute ROMs in it, but I don't think that's ever going to be the case- a big ROM-pack isn't hard to find anyway, legitimate or not. That way, no single person is responsible for maintaining such a monumental bundle. We could also nab GOG.com's Gogmixes idea, and allow users to build their own bundles based around a theme, and share them with others, in addition to adding guides/mini reviews and more against these bundles. keeping that, in turn, up to date and benefitting everyone, even those who don't want the bundle. It's a piece of piss to do, programmatically, and would focus any efforts to keep it up to date onto the Pandora store. It'll require the co-operation of Craig, but the server on which the store is running should periodically zip up all the PNDs into one package, or give the option to check boxes and build your own bundle of PNDs for download. I propose a build-your-own bundle extension to the official Open Pandora store. Keeping it up to date, however, is a massive chore. It's been done fantastically well for the Dingoo/Dingux. Creating one big zip-and-go file is easy enough.
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