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Stonemonkey

#20
January 20, 2012
Here's my case.



Maybe not but I'm sure there'll be a few novel ideas.

Raizor

#21
January 20, 2012
Hehe, I actually have a mini guitar amp in a ciggy packet.
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Stonemonkey

#22
January 21, 2012
Some other things to consider would be to house the insides of a USB hub in the case too, if you want wifi then the dongle could be internal, same too for a wireless kb+mouse dongle.

I still have the 2.5 160Gb drive from my failed PS3 which could come in handy but might have to look into alternative ways of powering the whole lot.

Pixel_Outlaw

#23
January 21, 2012
I really hope the drivers are hardware accelerated. That makes a huge difference.
There is plenty of RAM to run a carefully crafted demo or game. I guess it comes with Debian which will run OK on 512 MB of ram, not sure about 256, it might be a bit pokey.

I hope this doesn't come across too ignorantly but perhaps this will give us a unified hardware platform for develop for. Much like the computers of yesteryear. I think the problem today is that you have the gamer crowd and everyone else who doesn't have a $300 graphics card and 16 GB of ram. It can be quite difficult to hit a moving target with hardware when developing any graphics based application.

This will give us a platform that will make games and demos highly portable. If you prefer Windows to Linux you can still use well established cross platform libraries like SDL, SFML, FLTK, GTK, and OpenGL.

My main concern is that memory and disk space is probably built in, meaning a finite number of reads and writes. This is meaningless though because the devices can be enjoyed into the ground and then replaced for a very fair price.

Heck with a computer this small you can enjoy emulated games and connect it to your HDMI television as a sort of portable arcade box. There are emulators like Zsnes that have been ported to Linux already.

Just my 2 cents. :)

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Stonemonkey

#24
January 21, 2012
Quote from: Pixel_Outlaw on January 21, 2012
I really hope the drivers are hardware accelerated. That makes a huge difference.
There is plenty of RAM to run a carefully crafted demo or game. I guess it comes with Debian which will run OK on 512 MB of ram, not sure about 256, it might be a bit pokey.
Debian, Fedora and Archlinux at release.
2 versions/models of the board, A-128Mb(no ethernet)   B-256Mb

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I hope this doesn't come across too ignorantly but perhaps this will give us a unified hardware platform for develop for. Much like the computers of yesteryear. I think the problem today is that you have the gamer crowd and everyone else who doesn't have a $300 graphics card and 16 GB of ram. It can be quite difficult to hit a moving target with hardware when developing any graphics based application.
The unified (except 2 different memorys) hardware platform seems to be part of it's appeal.

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This will give us a platform that will make games and demos highly portable. If you prefer Windows to Linux you can still use well established cross platform libraries like SDL, SFML, FLTK, GTK, and OpenGL.

My main concern is that memory and disk space is probably built in, meaning a finite number of reads and writes. This is meaningless though because the devices can be enjoyed into the ground and then replaced for a very fair price.
There's no built in storage, the user provides that with either SD cards or USB storage, I think it'll boot off either.
Memory is built in and can't be changed so you're pretty much stuck with the amount that came with the model you buy although I wouldn't be surprised to see some ways of upgrading the memory popping up.

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Heck with a computer this small you can enjoy emulated games and connect it to your HDMI television as a sort of portable arcade box. There are emulators like Zsnes that have been ported to Linux already.

Just my 2 cents. :)

combatking0

#25
January 21, 2012
ZSNES + HDMI output = where do I buy one? I know the graphic quality can't be upscaled, but it will save me going into the loft for my cartridges.

At work, we're thinking of buying 20, or possibly 30. £750 for 30 computers? That would barely buy 3 or 4 ordinary computers before you add monitors, etc.
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Raizor

#26
January 25, 2012
Some bold claims about the Pi's GPU.

Twice as fast as an iPhone4S? hmmm
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combatking0

#27
January 25, 2012
If it's easier to code for than an iPhone, I'm on board ;)
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Pixel_Outlaw

#28
January 25, 2012
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If it's easier to code for than an iPhone, I'm on board ;)

Well you're probably looking at C, C++, Python, built in.
That said things like Blitzmax and Java are possible too.

I guess we can all code the same assembly for such a platform as the CPU will be consistent.
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combatking0

#29
January 26, 2012
They look like managable languages.
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Raizor

#30
February 28, 2012
Sounds like these are going on sale early in the morning. From the website:

"The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive) announcement that just might interest you at 0600h GMT on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Come to www.raspberrypi.org to find out what's going on."

I intend to be fast asleep at 6am though :)
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Kirl

#31
February 28, 2012 Last Edit: February 28, 2012 by Kirl
Quote from: Raizor on February 28, 2012
I intend to be fast asleep at 6am though :)
Bah! Amateur!  ;D

Thanks for the heads up, I've been looking forward to this!
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Pixel_Outlaw

#32
February 28, 2012
It is going to be difficult.

Everyone in the known world is ordering one of these things... :whack:
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Pixel_Outlaw

#33
February 29, 2012
Update:

The traffic is breaking every site they divert it to.
Their site has well collapsed,
RS Component is down
Farnell is also down.
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Raizor

#34
February 29, 2012
Managed to connect to RS Components, but it will only let me register an interest rather than order. The Farnell site is still unreachable for me.
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Raizor

#35
February 29, 2012
Farnell site just lets you register an interest too. I read that this is to stop people buying multiple items at the moment. We'll see...
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Hotshot

#36
February 29, 2012 Last Edit: February 29, 2012 by Hotshot
I have order one and cant wait to get my Hand on :)

Shockwave

#37
February 29, 2012
I've registered my interest buy couldn't see an opportunity to buy one?

Have you been able to pay for one Hotshot?
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Hotshot

#38
February 29, 2012 Last Edit: February 29, 2012 by Hotshot
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I've registered my interest buy couldn't see an opportunity to buy one?

Have you been able to pay for one Hotshot?

I have registered too and they going send me links to order one but dont know when thought :(

P.S. I have made error in my last post but at least I correct it in second post  ::)
P.S.S. 100,000 People Pre Order them in just Hour !!!  Whoaffff !  :o

Shockwave

#39
March 01, 2012
I found out that it is possible to buy the Raspberry Pi from Premier Farnell because I paid for mine today :)
Estimated delivery date is Middle of April.
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