Handheld PC!!!

Unidentified Assilant · Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:16 am

As well as doing the N-Forcer console when I get a laptop, I am also making a Handheld PC! Below is what will have, I'm not sure what specs it will have until the nano-itx is released.

-USB Controller built in with 12 buttons and 2 analog sticks (one for mouse control)
-A notebook styled keyboard that can be pulled out
-56x DVD/CDRW Combo Drive (with the front taken off to upload the cds dreamcast/psone style
-60GB harddrive
-It WONT have wireless internet (I can't afford the modem prices), but it will have a modem connection, so you can hook it up to a telephone line at home for 56k internet connection (Broadband is too illogical)
-It will have Windows XP
-Any games that rely on keyboard cannot be played at all, but there is a socket allowing you to plug in a keyboard, I just can't make a keyboard small enough.
-It will surely have a split-screen port of Doom! (Legacy)

Update: Actually it won't have a keyboard on

ANOTHER Update: Those PC Cards look good... I may get one for my handheld PC, for some reason.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:36 am

some of those pocket pcs run a little slow. Thats just what I have heard

someone · Post by **someone** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:00 am

you can get a mini-itx one that runs a P4. don't get one w/ an integrated VIA processor as jack said, it is slow.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:37 am

http://www.mini-itx.com/
Some sweet mini-itx stuff.
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/
Their store.

Also, broadband isnt illogical. Or at least having a LAN/ethernet port isnt. How are you going to compete with anyone with a crappy 56k connection? Someones talking about the Insight P4 ITX Motherboard shown here. http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=2
Also a mini-itx board like the VIA EPIA MII 12000 LVDS 1.2Ghz Motherboard might be good. It has intergrated composite out, a slot for CF cards and a PCMCIA slot so you can plug in wireless cards.

My 2 cents.

Post by **gannon** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:58 am

hmm... I wonder if the onboard video chips on mini itx boards work with that one program that changes the vga output frequency to 15hz

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:09 pm

Please elaborate... What does a 15hz signal attain?

Post by **gannon** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:33 pm

That you can use a standard rgb lcd on the vga port.
I.E. psone screen

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:44 pm

Yay! Also some of the boards have composite out, so even if the vga mod dosnt work you can still hook it up.

Kanangea · Post by **Kanangea** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:04 pm

are you building it to look like a laptop or smaller or larger.....doom 3 portable...drools

Fabre · Post by **Fabre** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:58 pm

gannon wrote:That you can use a standard rgb lcd on the vga port.
I.E. psone screen

And that it would work with an arcade monitor

Unidentified Assilant · Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:43 am

Doom 3 Portable? Thats kinda what I am aiming for, expect Doom 3 wouldn't run on my PC for some reason, even though the specs on my PC can run it easily.

stereth · Post by **stereth** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:02 pm

Scrap the P4 idea. For a portable, you want low power consumption, small size, and low heat. The integrated mini-itx processors kick ass in all three. You do not want to be carrying around a 100W processor and a full-sized heatsink.

Some mini-itx boards have s-video out, but you still need to convert that for a LCD.

And it's 15khz for RGB from the monitor port, as opposed to the ~31khz VGA standard. I don't know if the mini-itx boards can handle it; mine's running in Linux and I'm not ready to install video drivers on it.

Unidentified Assilant · Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:21 am

All of those mobos on sale are to big, I don't want a really bulky thing to carry around with me (plus the prices are too big for me anyway)

Unidentified Assilant · Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:24 am

And for it to be truly portable, I need batteries, how do I get a PC to run from battries, its impossible.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:42 am

no its not it uses dc current