20 Dingo = about 90 bucks

******THE DINGOO******
Okay, so I have one of those things from deal extreme i bought it before a long train trip from Melbourne to Adelaide and it took about 3 months to come, I was already back from a really nice trip to adelaide and had one last hurrah with the GBA flash cart for nes roms when it finally arrived.

The dingoo looks like a gameboy advance sp but has a "decent" computer inside. Anyway it's super cool, its built in operating system is a good video and music player. It fits in a shirt pocket and the headphone jack on its side makes plugging the headphones in super slick. Pressing the control pad to change songs is like living inside that Captain N the game master cartoon where the hero gets sucked into his nes and becomes a cartoon and has a nes controller on his belt so he can pause the game and stuff like that when the video excrement hits the 8 bit fan.

One best thing about the dingoo is Dingux and the handful of super dedicated compilers who bring us one by one all the open source emulators and pc game ports we dingoo users could dream of utilizing.

Some super smart guy managed to flash the firmware and boot the gameboyish dingoo thingy into linux . I have to put a guitar pick in my minisd slot because the springs don't quite push it into its slot so using the linux side of the dingoo always makes me feel like a bit like some kind of greek god of rock and roll resourcefullness.

I also like using the dingoo for music the LGPT tracker is a ripper I have a bunch of organ samples I usually use in a mod tracker but they came over easily to lgpt and its really fun to have a sequencer on the go.

The other thing is in my rock and roll set I use a gameboy advance with a flashcart to play mod files I compile into a gba rom. Anyway I like to use the built in Operating systems gba emulator to test out my draft versions of the roms because flashing the GBA is a little bit of a pain and I've run out of Double A Bateries so the lituium trooper keeps me rocking.

Anyway that's my first tech post. More about the Dingoo and probably some stuff about the TRS80 Model 100 circa maybe 1980 or so.