Last week I met with PtitSeb as I started my holiday back home – during our conversation I was casually asking him what’s been happening with the Pandora lately since I did not really have any time to check news. “Oh, the Pyra pre-orders started”. Wow, already ? It’s now been more than a week, and here’s a quick update on the whole situation.
Yes, it’s been two years already. Time passes by fast, but when you are in good company you don’t notice it as much. So what has happened since we launched? Here’s a quick overview of the past year’s traffic, and a list of most popular articles published in the past 12 months.
Last week there was a new Super Zaxxon firmware Release Candidate, called 1.62RC. Despite the innocent looking version number, it is updating some important system libraries and this is going to break many of the PNDs you are currently using. I feel it should have been called 1.70 or something, to give a hint to users, but anyway we’ll have to live with it.
I have just launched a relatively long survey aimed at taking a snapshot of the community members, and better understand their habits as gamers, what led them to the Pandora, what they think of the Pandora, and what they expect from the Pyra in the near future. It’s already online so you are encourage to participate right now!
You may remember that a couple of weeks ago, following the release of the case data for the Pandora, one community member mentioned he would make Aluminum cases for the Pandora in case there’s enough demand for it. At least 100 units. Well, today Evil Dragon announced that he pushed the button to make them happen.
Michael Mrozek, also known as Evil Dragon (ED on the board) is the CEO of DragonBox and the current project leader for the upcoming DragonBox Pyra, a new device expected to replace the Open Pandora. He was at the recent RMLL in Montpellier (5-11 July 2014), France and gave a talk about the Pandora and the Pyra. Since it covers many of the latest aspects of the design, it’s a recommended watch if you have not had the chance to follow up on all developments recently.
Hey if you even see this post that means you can call yourself a DNS Transfer Survivor. The move to the new and shiny server is complete, and it went quite well while it took a little longer than expected…
Just a short notice as we will be moving to a new server probably on Sunday evening / Monday morning somewhere in the world. So you can expect some disconnection to occur at that time! The idea is that the new server should be more powerful and prevent the recent issues we have had with high traffic…
A couple of weeks ago Evil Dragon announced the upcoming Day of the Pandora to occur on the 1st of June. Well, the date has now come and here is what the wait was all about. Was it worth it ? In short, yes, definitely !
A minor bit of news – you may remember that there was a poll to decide what the Pyra Logo should be like a couple of weeks back. Well, following that one, there was another row of voting between the best contenders… and some tweaking of the final logo by some community members. And this is what ED decided in the end.