Re: Prototype Major Havoc Roller (from long ago...)

They ported it onto a Kodak DC265. They mention MAME running on "Kodak
Digita OS based digital cameras Kodak Digita OS based digital cameras"

/. http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/26/0916237.shtml
Website: http://digita.mame.net/

-Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zonn" <zonn@zonn.com>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Prototype Major Havoc Roller (from long ago...)

> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:19:35 PST, you wrote:
>
> >>Isn't that the one that can run MAME ???
> >
> >I'm not sure if this one has the Digita OS or not actually. It's got a
> >really snazzy color menu system-- obviously a fair amount of CPU behind
it.
> >Not sure if it'll accept user executables or not. (Alas, it doesn't have
> >the little "joypad" for controls...)
> >
> >(Anyone else notice that the latest MAME source tree is something like
24M
> >now? Geez....)
>
> I was just looking for a new digital camera earlier this week (I currently
> have a Sony FD88 which is the perfect "vacation" camera).
>
> I'm sure the 280 has the downloadable operating system (I know you can get
> updates for it on the Kodak website, you should check it out and see if
you're
> current.)
>
> I was looking at the 290 which is pretty much the same camera
(hardware-wise)
> but with much better scripting abilities (it supports built in time lapse
> which I think will be cool for catching some of the thunderstorms that
roll in
> at a place on the grand canyon we camp at a lot), and it also supports
> lossless (TIF) images (important for the time lapse if you don't want
little
> "jpeg ants" - those weird creatures you see in bad mpegs, crawling all
over
> your time lapse movies.
>
> All in all though, the 280 is a nice camera! (And I thought is *was* the
one
> MAME ran in, I don't think the 290 was out when they announced the MAME
> thing.)
>
> -Zonn
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