GollyGee Blocks on the Classmate PC
Last week I had a chance to see a Classmate PC, Intel's foray into the world of laptops for primary education. I was pleased to see that GollyGee Blocks ran without a hitch. The Classmate PC has this annoying screen scrolling thing that it does because it's resolution is too low (800x4800) to display a typical Windows desktop. But GGB by default sets the resolution to 640x480, which fit on the display fine although it was stretched horizontally. The end result was it looked really sharp.
Performance of GollyGee Blocks on the machine was excellent. The Classmate PC doesn't have 3D hardware but GGB was written to be able to work fine with only software rendering, and the 900MHz processor was more than enough for smoothly rotating scenes around.
So if anyone out there is buying a classmate PC, think about putting GollyGee Blocks on it!