Dragonbox Pyra lol thread - Dragoncuck POOra

[Coolio55]

Late 2010
>Take 2 years to produce a UMPC for retro gamers and linux spergs, the "Open Pandora"
>Most people convinced it's vapourware
>It comes out and it's pretty cool
>Stewart Ashen gives it a good review
>In 2013 decide to halt production and make a successor, the "Dragonbox Pyra"

Jump forward to 2020

>In development for 6 years minimum
>Ex Game Park employees stole it's lunch ages ago with the GPD series
>Cheap retro handhelds up the bum from everyone and their gran if you don't care about PC functionality
>Permanently "2 months from launch"
>Smach Z looking like it'll launch first

Gee I wonder why this thing is taking so fucking long
*ogles video*

OH NO NO NO NO

 

[NIGGER ASS PEE POOPY RAPE]

I was just watching this great gameplay footage of Need For Speed (1995) played on the Open Pandora video game machine a few hours ago.

 

[garakfan69]

2 years? They were still finishing up pre-orders in 2013.
The Pandora was quite a clusterfuck. Which is kind of understandable since it's extremely hard to get something as complex as this manufactured by such a tiny team. And then the British side of it ran away with the money or something.

 

[Pissmaster]

Oh yeah, these same guys did the iControlpad, a decent little controller manufactured in England that you could use with a hacked iPhone to play roms with.

Then came a Kickstarter for the iControlpad 2, where the guy heading it, Craig J.V. Rothwell (search that name for plenty of shit), made off with over $200,000 and left everyone he was working with holding the bag. I never followed up to see if any of it got resolved, though.

If ol' Rothwell's behind this, then hahahahahahahaha, what a shitshow. Everything surrounding the OpenPandora mess could make for a great Internet Historian or Down the Rabbit Hole video. Calling it the fucking "Pandora" couldn't have been a more appropriate name.

 

[garakfan69]

If ol' Rothwell's behind this, then hahahahahahahaha, what a shitshow.

Nah, he's not involved with the Pyra.
ED (the German autist in the video) is the one developing the Pyra - he went through a lot of effort to get Pandoras to the people fucked over by Craig.

 

[The Real SVP]

Late 2010
>Take 2 years to produce a UMPC for retro gamers and linux spergs, the "Open Pandora"

2 years? They were still finishing up pre-orders in 2013.

The Pandora project started in the first decade. I think I gave up on waiting for it somewhere around 2007.