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.
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
14 By the end of the month, the first working LCD-code for the Recorder was
17 148 mails was posted to the list.
21 Initial source packages were offered that did basic things like scrolling
22 or blinking on the screen.
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.
28 Discussions about development environments.
30 The issue of locked hard disks were discussed a lot, since Björn got this
31 problem on a whole range of his disks!
33 More hardware pins and functionality was detected and researched.
35 At the end of the month, Rockbox was setup as a project on sourceforge.net
36 and people immediately started posting feature-requests.
38 187 mails was posted to the list.
42 Linus Nielsen Feltzing did some major progress on his gdb-stub and
43 associated hardware modification to do really low-level debugging.
45 Lots of feature-requests were posted.
47 47 mails was posted to the list.
51 Robert Hak suggested we start maintaining a FAQ, and took an initiative
52 to start the #rockbox IRC channel.
54 Daniel started the work on the simulator.
56 Initial code was added to the CVS.
58 72 mails was posted to the list.
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.
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
69 Julien Labruyére donated a slightly broken Archos Jukebox 6000 to the
72 70 mails was posted to the list.
76 Introducing our cool playlist concept.
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
82 The FAT32 driver is working! We can access the file system.
84 The dir browser could run on a Player. The ATA code still didn't work on the
87 May 28th. We start offering "daily builds" on the Rockbox web site.
89 103 mails was posted to the list.
93 June 2nd. Rockbox 1.0 (for players only) is released.
95 The WPS concept was introduced.
97 June 19th. Working Archos Recorder mp3 playback was announced to the list.
99 June 19th. Rockbox 1.1 was released.
101 355 mails was posted to the list.
105 430 mails was posted to the list.
109 August 9th. Rockbox 1.2 was released.
111 August 28th. Rockbox 1.3 was released.
113 1199 mails was posted to the list.
119 Multiple-language support was added.
121 1375 mails was posted to the list.
125 October 11th. Rockbox 1.4 was release.
127 831 mails was posted to the list.
131 On Nov 10th, Linus announced the first recording code committed to CVS and
132 made available to users.
136 On Dec 19th, Björn posted the first ever test version for the FM Recorder.
141 The FM version starts to work properly in the end of January.
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...
148 The FM version of Rockbox hits the daily builds on February 17th.
152 The April 1st joke, Doom on Archos, heated up the community.
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).
157 Daniel started editing and publishing the Rockbox Digest.
159 368 subscribers of the development mailing list.
160 1349 mails was posted to the list by 181 authors.
164 On May 3rd, Linus committed the first code ever that made use of the FM
165 tuner on the FM model.
169 On June 29th, Björn committed the first plugin interface and things, and
170 now Rockbox runs plugins.
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.
179 Rockbox 2.1 is released
183 Rockbox 2.2 is released
185 Jörg Hohensohn introduces the voice concept that now allows Rockbox to talk
186 (speak) the menus and more.
190 We finally dump Sourceforge's CVS repository and host it ourselves.
194 We start providing Windows installer packages
196 Jens made it possible to run Rockbox entirely from ROM, thus making another
197 150-170KB free for mp3 buffering.
201 Jens and Jörg started porting Rockbox to the Archos Ondio, Archos' flash
202 memory based player series.
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.
207 September 24: rockbox.org is ours thanks to Jeff!