| Rockbox History |
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| * Dec 2001 |
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| Björn Stenberg set up and announced the mailing list for Archos Open Source |
| Jukebox software hacking dicsussions. People started to join up. The |
| scrambling algorithm was "broken" and the first ever LED-flashing program |
| was downloaded and run. |
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| Lots of efforts were put on researching the hardware, how it works, what |
| circuits that are used, where to find the spec sheets for those circuits |
| etc. |
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| By the end of the month, the first working LCD-code for the Recorder was |
| written. |
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| 148 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Jan 2002 |
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| Initial source packages were offered that did basic things like scrolling |
| or blinking on the screen. |
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| A vote page was setup for people to vote on a project name, and even while |
| Rockbox was not the winning one, Björn showed his dictator-side and set the |
| project name. Rockbox it shall be. |
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| Discussions about development environments. |
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| The issue of locked hard disks were discussed a lot, since Björn got this |
| problem on a whole range of his disks! |
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| More hardware pins and functionality was detected and researched. |
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| At the end of the month, Rockbox was setup as a project on sourceforge.net |
| and people immediately started posting feature-requests. |
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| 187 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Feb 2002 |
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| Linus Nielsen Feltzing did some major progress on his gdb-stub and |
| associated hardware modification to do really low-level debugging. |
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| Lots of feature-requests were posted. |
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| 47 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Mar 2002 |
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| Robert Hak suggested we start maintaining a FAQ, and took an initiative |
| to start the #rockbox IRC channel. |
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| Daniel started the work on the simulator. |
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| Initial code was added to the CVS. |
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| 72 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Apr 2002 |
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| UI-wise functionality is getting written, as by the help of the simulator we |
| write code even though the lower levels aren't quite there yet. |
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| April 19th. Björn, Linus, Daniel and Kjell gathered at the "Rockbox |
| Developer Conference 2002" at Linus' place and drew up a basic design of the |
| Rockbox software. |
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| Julien Labruyére donated a slightly broken Archos Jukebox 6000 to the |
| project. |
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| 70 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * May 2002 |
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| Introducing our cool playlist concept. |
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| May 3rd. We have sound. Rockbox was able to produce sound for the first time |
| ever. The 4 seconds of music was the beginning of "Arcade" by Machinae |
| Supremacy. |
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| The FAT32 driver is working! We can access the file system. |
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| The dir browser could run on a Player. The ATA code still didn't work on the |
| Recorder. |
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| May 28th. We start offering "daily builds" on the Rockbox web site. |
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| 103 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Jun 2002 |
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| June 2nd. Rockbox 1.0 (for players only) is released. |
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| The WPS concept was introduced. |
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| June 19th. Working Archos Recorder mp3 playback was announced to the list. |
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| June 19th. Rockbox 1.1 was released. |
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| 355 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Jul 2002 |
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| 430 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Aug 2002 |
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| August 9th. Rockbox 1.2 was released. |
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| August 28th. Rockbox 1.3 was released. |
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| 1199 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Sep 2002 |
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| ROLO was introduced. |
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| Multiple-language support was added. |
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| 1375 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Oct 2002 |
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| October 11th. Rockbox 1.4 was release. |
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| 831 mails was posted to the list. |
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| * Nov 2002 |
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| On Nov 10th, Linus announced the first recording code committed to CVS and |
| made available to users. |
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| * Dec 2002 |
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| On Dec 19th, Björn posted the first ever test version for the FM Recorder. |
| Didn't work much... |
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| * Jan 2003. |
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| The FM version starts to work properly in the end of January. |
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| * Feb 2003 |
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| Matthew P. O'Reilly donated an FM Recorder to Linus. Linus had it for 2 |
| hours before he took it apart and started drawing schematics... |
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| The FM version of Rockbox hits the daily builds on February 17th. |
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| * Apr 2003 |
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| The April 1st joke, Doom on Archos, heated up the community. |
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| On April 15th, the long awaited Rockbox 2.0 was released. Works fine on |
| Players, Recorders as well as FM Recorders (but without FM tuner support). |
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| Daniel started editing and publishing the Rockbox Digest. |
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| 368 subscribers of the development mailing list. |
| 1349 mails was posted to the list by 181 authors. |
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| * May 2003 |
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| On May 3rd, Linus committed the first code ever that made use of the FM |
| tuner on the FM model. |
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| * June 2003 |
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| On June 29th, Björn committed the first plugin interface and things, and |
| now Rockbox runs plugins. |
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| * July 2003 |
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| On July 9th, Jörg Hohensohn announced the first official release of Rockbox |
| in flash! It only works on the Recorders and the FM Recorders. |
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| * December 2003 |
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| Rockbox 2.1 is released |
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| * March 2004 |
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| Rockbox 2.2 is released |
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| Jörg Hohensohn introduces the voice concept that now allows Rockbox to talk |
| (speak) the menus and more. |
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| * May 2004 |
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| We finally dump Sourceforge's CVS repository and host it ourselves. |
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| * July 2004 |
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| We start providing Windows installer packages |
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| Jens made it possible to run Rockbox entirely from ROM, thus making another |
| 150-170KB free for mp3 buffering. |
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| * September 2004 |
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| Jens and Jörg started porting Rockbox to the Archos Ondio, Archos' flash |
| memory based player series. |
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| The work on a iRiver port starts for real. We buy one working and one broken |
| one to the project. Another article (about the porting) appears on slashdot. |
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| September 24: rockbox.org is ours thanks to Jeff! |
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