Update on final memory board situation

Hi.

I just realised this is the first time in about 3 weeks I've even looked at the BBS, due to life, etc. Anyway, slightly unexpectedly, the memory I have been waiting for ages for suddenly turned up yesterday. So, it's going off the the PCB builders along with the remaining PCBs, and they claim by the middle of november I will have 36 built boards in my hands. I will then be able to sent them out to all the people who have waited so patiently for the things, along with a couple of extras if there is any interest. Note that this is likely to be the last batch of memory boards I make, as to be honest it'sturned out to be too much hassle to sort out, and I simply don't have the time for the forseeable future to do something like this again.

Once again, my apologies to everyone for the whole debacle, it's taken far too long to get everyone's boards sorted. On the upside, I have only had one refund request, so thanks for the patience.

pca

I would like one if you have any remaining.

I too am interested in one if you have it, but preferably without the memory chips cause I already have 6...

Any word from the empeg guys if a beta or something will come along that will actually work with the thing? I can only get 2.00 to run with it. 2.01 is a mess with the memory board. I know that they couldn't test the software with the board because the board wasn't developed yet, but I wanted to see if you knew if that was going to change.

I think, in all honesty, given the takeover from SigmaTel, you can really forget the prospect of ever seeing another player release. Shame, but that's it.

Any memory boards left? I am interested!

Quite possibly, given the IP cleansing; the main issue is that we no longer have rights to an MP3 decoder to run on the StrongARM - Sigmatel have a lovely one that's much more efficient than the one we use, but it won't run on an ARMv4 (needs a v5TE) and is licensed only for their CPUs.

Still, people have said "no more!" before now and been proved wrong

Hugo

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Quite possibly, given the IP cleansing; the main issue is that we no longer have rights to an MP3 decoder to run on the StrongARM

..but you're not selling any new products. You already bought all the MP3 decoder licenses necessary for the entire empeg user base. How does having that binary library (of which you bought X thousand licenses) in a branch of your repository cause IP pollution?

Rob