Daniel Stenberg | d454f8c | 2003-09-07 22:43:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Rockbox History |
| 2 | |
| 3 | * Dec 2001 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Björn Stenberg set up and announced the mailing list for Archos Open Source |
| 6 | Jukebox software hacking dicsussions. People started to join up. The |
| 7 | scrambling algorithm was "broken" and the first ever LED-flashing program |
| 8 | was downloaded and run. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Lots of efforts were put on researching the hardware, how it works, what |
| 11 | circuits that are used, where to find the spec sheets for those circuits |
| 12 | etc. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | By the end of the month, the first working LCD-code for the Recorder was |
| 15 | written. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | 148 mails was posted to the list. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * Jan 2002 |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Initial source packages were offered that did basic things like scrolling |
| 22 | or blinking on the screen. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | A vote page was setup for people to vote on a project name, and even while |
| 25 | Rockbox was not the winning one, Björn showed his dictator-side and set the |
| 26 | project name. Rockbox it shall be. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Discussions about development environments. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | The issue of locked hard disks were discussed a lot, since Björn got this |
| 31 | problem on a whole range of his disks! |
| 32 | |
| 33 | More hardware pins and functionality was detected and researched. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | At the end of the month, Rockbox was setup as a project on sourceforge.net |
| 36 | and people immediately started posting feature-requests. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | 187 mails was posted to the list. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * Feb 2002 |
| 41 | |
Linus Nielsen Feltzing | 72a914c | 2003-09-07 22:47:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | Linus Nielsen Feltzing did some major progress on his gdb-stub and |
Daniel Stenberg | d454f8c | 2003-09-07 22:43:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | associated hardware modification to do really low-level debugging. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Lots of feature-requests were posted. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | 47 mails was posted to the list. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | * Mar 2002 |
| 50 | |
| 51 | Robert Hak suggested we start maintaining a FAQ, and took an initiative |
| 52 | to start the #rockbox IRC channel. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Daniel started the work on the simulator. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | Initial code was added to the CVS. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | 72 mails was posted to the list. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | * Apr 2002 |
| 61 | |
| 62 | UI-wise functionality is getting written, as by the help of the simulator we |
| 63 | write code even though the lower levels aren't quite there yet. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | April 19th. Björn, Linus, Daniel and Kjell gathered at the "Rockbox |
| 66 | Developer Conference 2002" at Linus' place and drew up a basic design of the |
| 67 | Rockbox software. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Julien Labruyére donated a slightly broken Archos Jukebox 6000 to the |
| 70 | project. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | 70 mails was posted to the list. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | * May 2002 |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Introducing our cool playlist concept. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | May 3rd. We have sound. Rockbox was able to produce sound for the first time |
| 79 | ever. The 4 seconds of music was the beginning of "Arcade" by Machinae |
| 80 | Supremacy. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | The FAT32 driver is working! We can access the file system. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | The dir browser could run on a Player. The ATA code still didn't work on the |
| 85 | Recorder. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | May 28th. We start offering "daily builds" on the Rockbox web site. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | 103 mails was posted to the list. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | * Jun 2002 |
| 92 | |
| 93 | June 2nd. Rockbox 1.0 (for players only) is released. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | The WPS concept was introduced. |
| 96 | |
| 97 | June 19th. Working Archos Recorder mp3 playback was announced to the list. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | June 19th. Rockbox 1.1 was released. |
| 100 | |
| 101 | 355 mails was posted to the list. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | * Jul 2002 |
| 104 | |
| 105 | 430 mails was posted to the list. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | * Aug 2002 |
| 108 | |
| 109 | August 9th. Rockbox 1.2 was released. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | August 28th. Rockbox 1.3 was released. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | 1199 mails was posted to the list. |
| 114 | |
| 115 | * Sep 2002 |
| 116 | |
| 117 | ROLO was introduced. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | Multiple-language support was added. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | 1375 mails was posted to the list. |
| 122 | |
| 123 | * Oct 2002 |
| 124 | |
| 125 | October 11th. Rockbox 1.4 was release. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | 831 mails was posted to the list. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | * Nov 2002 |
| 130 | |
| 131 | On Nov 10th, Linus announced the first recording code committed to CVS and |
| 132 | made available to users. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | * Dec 2002 |
| 135 | |
| 136 | On Dec 19th, Björn posted the first ever test version for the FM Recorder. |
| 137 | Didn't work much... |
| 138 | |
| 139 | * Jan 2003. |
| 140 | |
| 141 | The FM version starts to work properly in the end of January. |
| 142 | |
| 143 | * Feb 2003 |
| 144 | |
| 145 | Matthew P. O'Reilly donated an FM Recorder to Linus. Linus had it for 2 |
| 146 | hours before he took it apart and started drawing schematics... |
| 147 | |
| 148 | The FM version of Rockbox hits the daily builds on February 17th. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | * Apr 2003 |
| 151 | |
| 152 | The April 1st joke, Doom on Archos, heated up the community. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | On April 15th, the long awaited Rockbox 2.0 was released. Works fine on |
| 155 | Players, Recorders as well as FM Recorders (but without FM tuner support). |
| 156 | |
| 157 | Daniel started editing and publishing the Rockbox Digest. |
| 158 | |
| 159 | 368 subscribers of the development mailing list. |
| 160 | 1349 mails was posted to the list by 181 authors. |
| 161 | |
| 162 | * May 2003 |
| 163 | |
| 164 | On May 3rd, Linus committed the first code ever that made use of the FM |
| 165 | tuner on the FM model. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | * June 2003 |
| 168 | |
| 169 | On June 29th, Björn committed the first plugin interface and things, and |
| 170 | now Rockbox runs plugins. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | * July 2003 |
| 173 | |
| 174 | On July 9th, Jörg Hohensohn announced the first official release of Rockbox |
| 175 | in flash! It only works on the Recorders and the FM Recorders. |
Daniel Stenberg | db06918 | 2004-10-05 07:58:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | |
Daniel Stenberg | db06918 | 2004-10-05 07:58:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | * December 2003 |
| 178 | |
| 179 | Rockbox 2.1 is released |
| 180 | |
| 181 | * March 2004 |
| 182 | |
| 183 | Rockbox 2.2 is released |
| 184 | |
| 185 | Jörg Hohensohn introduces the voice concept that now allows Rockbox to talk |
| 186 | (speak) the menus and more. |
| 187 | |
| 188 | * May 2004 |
| 189 | |
| 190 | We finally dump Sourceforge's CVS repository and host it ourselves. |
| 191 | |
| 192 | * July 2004 |
| 193 | |
| 194 | We start providing Windows installer packages |
| 195 | |
Jens Arnold | 6d6392c | 2004-10-05 10:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | Jens made it possible to run Rockbox entirely from ROM, thus making another |
| 197 | 150-170KB free for mp3 buffering. |
| 198 | |
Daniel Stenberg | db06918 | 2004-10-05 07:58:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | * September 2004 |
| 200 | |
Jens Arnold | 6d6392c | 2004-10-05 10:50:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | Jens and Jörg started porting Rockbox to the Archos Ondio, Archos' flash |
| 202 | memory based player series. |
| 203 | |
Daniel Stenberg | db06918 | 2004-10-05 07:58:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | The work on a iRiver port starts for real. We buy one working and one broken |
| 205 | one to the project. Another article (about the porting) appears on slashdot. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | September 24: rockbox.org is ours thanks to Jeff! |
| 208 | |
Daniel Stenberg | 9d79087 | 2007-01-09 19:20:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | * December 2006 |
| 210 | |
| 211 | Support for Toshiba Gigabeat |
| 212 | |
| 213 | * January 2007 |
| 214 | |
| 215 | Changed to Subversion |