From d454f8c0d0f8f19e5709839688f44979e30af890 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:43:03 +0000 Subject: The Rockbox history. How it all started, dates and events. Who did what and when? git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@3948 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657 --- docs/HISTORY | 175 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 175 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/HISTORY (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/HISTORY b/docs/HISTORY new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1c9f474a38 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/HISTORY @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +Rockbox History + +* Dec 2001 + + 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. + + 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. + + By the end of the month, the first working LCD-code for the Recorder was + written. + + 148 mails was posted to the list. + +* Jan 2002 + + Initial source packages were offered that did basic things like scrolling + or blinking on the screen. + + 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. + + Discussions about development environments. + + The issue of locked hard disks were discussed a lot, since Björn got this + problem on a whole range of his disks! + + More hardware pins and functionality was detected and researched. + + At the end of the month, Rockbox was setup as a project on sourceforge.net + and people immediately started posting feature-requests. + + 187 mails was posted to the list. + +* Feb 2002 + + Linus Feltzing Nielsen did some major progress on his gdb-stub and + associated hardware modification to do really low-level debugging. + + Lots of feature-requests were posted. + + 47 mails was posted to the list. + +* Mar 2002 + + Robert Hak suggested we start maintaining a FAQ, and took an initiative + to start the #rockbox IRC channel. + + Daniel started the work on the simulator. + + Initial code was added to the CVS. + + 72 mails was posted to the list. + +* Apr 2002 + + 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. + + 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. + + Julien Labruyére donated a slightly broken Archos Jukebox 6000 to the + project. + + 70 mails was posted to the list. + +* May 2002 + + Introducing our cool playlist concept. + + 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. + + The FAT32 driver is working! We can access the file system. + + The dir browser could run on a Player. The ATA code still didn't work on the + Recorder. + + May 28th. We start offering "daily builds" on the Rockbox web site. + + 103 mails was posted to the list. + +* Jun 2002 + + June 2nd. Rockbox 1.0 (for players only) is released. + + The WPS concept was introduced. + + June 19th. Working Archos Recorder mp3 playback was announced to the list. + + June 19th. Rockbox 1.1 was released. + + 355 mails was posted to the list. + +* Jul 2002 + + 430 mails was posted to the list. + +* Aug 2002 + + August 9th. Rockbox 1.2 was released. + + August 28th. Rockbox 1.3 was released. + + 1199 mails was posted to the list. + +* Sep 2002 + + ROLO was introduced. + + Multiple-language support was added. + + 1375 mails was posted to the list. + +* Oct 2002 + + October 11th. Rockbox 1.4 was release. + + 831 mails was posted to the list. + +* Nov 2002 + + On Nov 10th, Linus announced the first recording code committed to CVS and + made available to users. + +* Dec 2002 + + On Dec 19th, Björn posted the first ever test version for the FM Recorder. + Didn't work much... + +* Jan 2003. + + The FM version starts to work properly in the end of January. + +* Feb 2003 + + 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... + + The FM version of Rockbox hits the daily builds on February 17th. + +* Apr 2003 + + The April 1st joke, Doom on Archos, heated up the community. + + 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). + + Daniel started editing and publishing the Rockbox Digest. + + 368 subscribers of the development mailing list. + 1349 mails was posted to the list by 181 authors. + +* May 2003 + + On May 3rd, Linus committed the first code ever that made use of the FM + tuner on the FM model. + +* June 2003 + + On June 29th, Björn committed the first plugin interface and things, and + now Rockbox runs plugins. + +* July 2003 + + On July 9th, Jörg Hohensohn announced the first official release of Rockbox + in flash! It only works on the Recorders and the FM Recorders. -- cgit v1.2.3