Raspberry PI

[Jim]

I will be Ordering Raspberry PI today and I will get it in 3 weeks time

While I hope that is true, I ordered mine 2 1/2 months ago and it will not be here in 3 weeks' time.

Jim

[Hotshot]

Are you coming to Sundown this year Hotshot?

September? I dont even know what I will be doing in September lol

I might go there but it is very long way to get there!

[Shockwave]

Are you coming to Sundown this year Hotshot?

September? I dont even know what I will be doing in September lol

I might go there but it is very long way to get there!

I'll buy you all the maltesers you can eat if you come...

[Hotshot]

I'll buy you all the maltesers you can eat if you come...

LOL

[Shockwave]

My Pi is in the post!

Yabbadabbadoo!!

[Shockwave]

Got my Pi today I need to get some bits from Maplins on Sunday, can't go tomorrow as it's my brothers wedding.. Typical for it to turn up now!  Still, I'm glad I've finally got my hands on one.

[TinDragon]

Looking forward to seeing were you guys go with these. Wonder how many demo coders have purchased them.

[Shockwave]

Looking forward to seeing were you guys go with these. Wonder how many demo coders have purchased them.

It's going to be nice to have a static platform to program for again

[Jim]

I've just picked mine up from the Post Office this morning :D

Jim

[Raizor]

I've just picked mine up from the Post Office this morning :D

Jim

[Hotshot]

I got it 

Now I need get USB Keyboard and USB hub today then I can have look at what does it do 

[Hotshot]

I have good test on Raspberry PI and Alright but the price alone for small computer is WORTH IT

[Shockwave]

Hi Hotshot, did you buy your bits?

[Hotshot]

Hi Hotshot, did you buy your bits?

Yes, I did  and my OS is LXDE(not my cup of tea thought but it does the job)

I am using Geany at the moment and learn Python on it

There somethings that I dont know much about Geany IDE as it seem that got multi language like(see the screenshot blow)

[Moroboshisan]

My RapsberryPI is on its way home!... just left Farnell today!

[Jim]

->Hotshot - those are just the languages the editor understands and will do nice source code colouring for.
However most linux installs, including the one on raspberry pi, come with C and C++ compilers, and an assembler built in.
Try typing these three lines in the console

Code Select Expand


gcc -v
g++ -v
as -version

All you need to do now is write the code!

Jim

[Hotshot]

thanks jim and I will let you know how I get on...

[Ktulu]

Hi,
I've received mine last week.
I've tested RiscOS. Seems to be a nice OS on Rasp when completed !

I use Raspbian on a daily basis.

Good points :
Quake 3 compiles and runs perfectly
All  demo sources codes (in /opt/vc) compile and run great .
We don't need X to display gfx ! That's a good point for programming this fruit.
broadcom's gl  libraries seem to be of a good quality.

Weak points :
memory footprint with raspbian is quite huge for such a tiny device (between 40 and 50 Mb)
We need of a good ARM assembler. AS could do the job, but it's not ARM syntax compliant.
If you want to use 3D functions, a memory split of 192/64 or 128/128 is needed.

I wish someone releases an asm-one like environnement. In the meantime,  emacs do the job.

Ktulu

[jace_stknights]

Hey, yep cool that Risc OS is now on Raspberry PI! Does it run fine?

I think I will really buy one, coz this was a cool OS at the time...

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/47797-risc-os-raspberry-pi-archimedes-reborn/

[Yaloopy]

Are they still way behind or are they shipping reasonably well now? There're links to a couple of shops from the official site and the estimated delivery times are different anywhere I look.