Raspberry Pi a new retro-gaming behemoth?

[AmigaJay]

Im looking forward to getting one, will be interesting to see what young programmers can push the hardware too, its alot more interesting than pcs that just get upgraded rather than finding new methods, ideas of pushing the hardware, all it needs is a custom linux os to standout from the rest of the linux os, it will take me back.to the great days of the Amiga/ST esp with the cheap price anyone can program on their tv for around £50 with mouse, kb, usb hub, sd card.

[SIR'86]

I'm really interested in these. With a decent Linux OS, a good conversion of Mame and a large capacity USB stick it'd be an ideal solid state instant boot-up replacement for a mame PC in an arcade cab.

[DreamcastRIP]

"Raspberry Pi GPU doubles iPhone 4S performance"

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... -iphone-4s

[the_hawk]

ZX spectrum case with a PC inside playing speccy emu

If one of these gets stuffed inside a rubber keyed spectrum it could be the greatest thing ever!

[DPrinny]

Was hoping to have one for Homebrew weekend.

Looks very unlikely now

[DreamcastRIP]

David Braben discusses consumer Raspberry Pi release -
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... pi-release

[PubZombie]

Given the Braben angle we need a little Elite/Frontier running on these, teach the kids about trade and enterprise, and open world narratives, game design, growth industries, entertainment sectors, social satires; then we can get started on the grown up stuff.

[DreamcastRIP]

"David Braben Discusses the Raspberry Pi" - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... spberry-pi

"EGTV Special: Eurogamer investigates Raspberry Pi" - http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/egtv-sp ... spberry-pi

[Eric]

Would like to see a all in one package release, Pi with their own branded keyboard, mouse etc.

[martin_lovick]

Ladies and gentlemen, set your alarms!

apparently theres going to be a positive announcement tomorrow at 6am GMT http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/716

[Havantgottaclue]

Well, it has taken a lot of F5 stabbing due to timeout after timeout on the supplier websites, but I have managed to order one.

[theantmeister]

Well, it has taken a lot of F5 stabbing due to timeout after timeout on the supplier websites, but I have managed to order one.

Well done!

I utterly failed to get one. Both websites were shagged and when they finally loaded, they just had preorder buttons

Still, I'm on the list at both places, so here's hoping!

[TMR]

I utterly failed to get one. Both websites were shagged and when they finally loaded, they just had preorder buttons

The RS site was showing the "register your interest" page at about 6.05am (it hadn't changed at 8am) so i'm hoping i'm in the queue at some level and it wasn't a case of the entire stock going in five minutes flat. There hasn't been a confirmation email from 'em to say anything though...

i've got nothing useful out of Farnell's site all morning.

[Havantgottaclue]

The good news is that as long as you get your order in it should get to you when available - the announcement states that by using RS and Farnell they're able to build more than the 10,000 units initially planned.

I think my order is probably a pre-order in effect, but I have had e-mail confirmation through from Farnell now so fingers crossed it should be okay. My F5 button is worn out though.

Update: Just got an e-mail through with a pdf attachment giving an estimated delivery date of 12 March.

[andyc]

I utterly failed to get one. Both websites were shagged and when they finally loaded, they just had preorder buttons

The RS site was showing the "register your interest" page at about 6.05am (it hadn't changed at 8am) so i'm hoping i'm in the queue at some level and it wasn't a case of the entire stock going in five minutes flat. There hasn't been a confirmation email from 'em to say anything though...

According to the official Twitter feed (which is presumably a reasonable source) it would seem that RS didn't actually plan on selling them till Friday (WTF?) so customers who registered their interest should be contacted in the next few days.

I think I'll wait, I was really only curious about whether the thing could be modded a bit to act as a fake ACID chip and cartridge emulator for the GX4000.