Raspberry Pi a new retro-gaming behemoth?

[DPrinny]

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.

They said something about a add-on board for soldering things to

[andyc]

They said something about a add-on board for soldering things to

Yeah, I sort of half-remembered something like that. A device that's cheap, but still fast enough to fake the "encryption" between the GX and the cart would be super handy. Otherwise I have to solder up a pass-through device to just use the ACID in another cart I guess, but then ROMs have to be flashed the old fashion way rather than just using the device's storage.

[DPrinny]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-Pi- ... 500wt_1156

>£95 +£5 (p&p)
>Something that cost under £30

You can get a begalboard for that price

[Havantgottaclue]

Apparently RISC OS 5 will be available for the Raspberry Pi - not surprising I suppose since it's an ARM processor and therefore a distant successor to the Archimedes. As someone who spent many a school lunchtime fiddling around with Archimedes machines, this pleases me greatly, I have to say.

[andyc]

>£95 +£5 (p&p)
>Something that cost under £30

You can get a begalboard for that price

It's a scam. Note that it even says at the end of the auction that he doesn't have any in stock and that you'd really only be "pre-ordering" it from someone whose only route to actually getting one would be to order from one of the official suppliers himself.

[speedlolita]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-Pi-Model-B-Arm-700mhz-Credit-Card-Sized-Computer-/251007533390?pt=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item3a7137014e#ht_500wt_1156

>£95 +£5 (p&p)
>Something that cost under £30

You can get a begalboard for that price

Supply and demand.

To be honest, they've ballsed this up. They should have released it to the education/private sector before doing the full release to use consumers.

[martin_lovick]

i hammered the f5 between 6 and 830 this morning, finally managed to order on at lunch time, just gotta wait untill april to play with now time to start reading that processor manual

[TMR]

To be honest, they've ballsed this up. They should have released it to the education/private sector before doing the full release to use consumers.

Nah, the range of software required just isn't there for an educational release yet; their plan has always been to get at least some of the first runs into the hands of hobbyists to let them write fun/interesting stuff to entice the education audience with. i reckon that's a sensible approach personally, convincing any audience to buy into a new piece of hardware is easier if you can point at a large community already working with it.

[DPrinny]

>£95 +£5 (p&p)
>Something that cost under £30

You can get a begalboard for that price

It's a scam. Note that it even says at the end of the auction that he doesn't have any in stock and that you'd really only be "pre-ordering" it from someone whose only route to actually getting one would be to order from one of the official suppliers himself.

Yeah I know.
Still some people seem to of fallen for it

Supply and demand.

To be honest, they've ballsed this up. They should have released it to the education/private sector before doing the full release to use consumers.

they released the B opnes first for people to do things with and to fund others

[Havantgottaclue]

Well, I've got my Raspberry Pi now - here's a picture. It really didn't dawn on me how small it was until I took it out of the box. Here pictured with a rail ticket for size comparison:

[Lettuce]

So is there an alternative to this?, obviously nowhere near as small but is windows based?

[The Laird]

So is there an alternative to this?, obviously nowhere near as small but is windows based?

Yeah a laptop

[r0jaws]

There isn't anything comparable to this to run Windows on. You could get a Windows phone, that would be the closest thing.

[Antiriad2097]

Good to see they're out in the wild now. What's the waiting list like for orders now?

[Havantgottaclue]

Dunno, I'm not on it any more!

Anyway - it works. I've run it from an SD card containing Debian Linux and all is well. Only problem at the mo is that on my tellies the screen goes outside the scan area. Tomorrow I'll try it on my PC monitor using a DVI cable - hopefully that'll work, otherwise I may have to relive the days of editing XFree86config file, just like in the golden days of Linux ...