• Raspberry Pi - A supercomputer in your backpack
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Could 2 of these linked together play n64 games?
[QUOTE=Maksim;34257727]Could 2 of these linked together play n64 games?[/QUOTE] Linking 2 together probably wouldn't help much, but you may be able to get an N64 emulator for ARM. It's hard to say how well games would run on a single raspberry pi - It's much more powerful than an N64, but the fact that it's an emulation makes it much slower.
[QUOTE=Maksim;34257727]Could 2 of these linked together play n64 games?[/QUOTE] Not sure. You [i]might[/i] be able to emulate PSone games on this since that doesn't require a whole lot of power to do. But then you still have to actually find if these programs even exist yet, which is a huge hurdle before you can even think of trying it.
I know there are NES Emulators for windows CE, but you'd ..have to run windows CE.
[QUOTE=blazingfly;34258292]I know there are NES Emulators for windows CE, but you'd ..have to run windows CE.[/QUOTE] Windows CE can run on it.
Not to be bitchy here but when you do say something will run please give sources.
[QUOTE=benjojo;34258544]Not to be bitchy here but when you do say something will run please give sources.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CE[/url]
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;34251770]This is why this thread belongs back in HW/SW section, and an OP that at least knows jackshit[/QUOTE] Yeah that and H&S people cutting off their penises over questions because they're to frustrated to understand not everybody is as computer literate as they are. [editline]17th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=mobrockers2;34258594][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CE[/url][/QUOTE] You would need to write drivers for the SoC I believe. [editline]17th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=B!N4RY;34251474]Don't want to look back into the past 20 pages, it has been mentioned plenty of times already.[/QUOTE] Nope, its a ARM11 and according to one of the developers it is alot faster.
My Android phone is ARM. It runs NES, SNES, Genesis and PS1 games. It is a piece of shit. (600MHz ARMv6, no hardware acceleration)
[QUOTE=tratzzz;34261845]My Android phone is ARM. It runs NES, SNES, Genesis and PS1 games. It is a piece of shit. (600MHz ARMv6, no hardware acceleration)[/QUOTE] Can it run 1080p?
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34261908]Can it run 1080p?[/QUOTE] I don't think that you had 1080p HD games in 1993 To think of it, 1080p 18-bit sprites.. what..
[QUOTE=darth-veger;34262010]I don't think that you had 1080p HD games in 1993 To think of it, 1080p 18-bit sprites.. what..[/QUOTE] I meant video playback at 1080p.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34262053]I meant video playback at 1080p.[/QUOTE] Oh that, yes it can
then how is it a dumb question. :V
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34262364]then how is it a dumb question. :V[/QUOTE]:v:
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34262364]then how is it a dumb question. :V[/QUOTE] Just by the way you said it, it felt like you where saying that the game would look better/sharper because it will run on 1080p
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34262053]I meant video playback at 1080p.[/QUOTE] As long as they're converted into h.264 video with the right audio format (I can't remember which one it was). Speaking of which, I wonder if someone could make a program similar to AirVideo. I had the App on my old iPod Touch and it worked well. Basically, you would have the video files on your computer / server and you would play them on the iPod. The computer would convert it into an easily streamable / playable file for the iPod in real time. Since the Raspberry Pi would struggle with files that it won't be able to decode on the GPU normally (Xvid for example), something like that would be really useful. Just a thought. [QUOTE=Jallen;34256137]Hey I just thought, since this thing obviously uses passive cooling, if any cooling at all, you could probably overclock the shit out of it if you threw it in mineral oil or used some effective active cooling. I dunno how possible that will be, who knows what kind of access the bios gives you on it, but if it is possible, keeping the temperature down shouldn't be difficult.[/QUOTE] I read a thread on their forum about overclocking, which explained that it may be possible to overclock the CPU, the RAM being attached to the top of the CPU would make cooling problematic (RAM chips aren't really great at transferring heat as copper). I can't remember if they gave any estimates on what you could overclock it to, though I personally think that another 100-200 MHz could be squeezed out of it, judging by the overclocking capabilities of some phones that I've seen.
You could also just press F11 into full screen. I tried a few SNES/NES emulators and none of them ever had a audio/video problem when re sizing or changing video settings
The official forums are horrible. It doesent even scale on widescreen, they use a UK host so naturally Wordpress + UK = 5 seconds to load a page.
Seeing as these require special image files wouldn't that mean installing Arch against the Arch way?
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34262813]The official forums are horrible. It doesent even scale on widescreen, they use a UK host so naturally Wordpress + UK = 5 seconds to load a page.[/QUOTE] So much wasted side space.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;34263174]Seeing as these require special image files wouldn't that mean installing Arch against the Arch way?[/QUOTE] Can't you just use ARM version of Arch and then get the required kernel modules from their site?
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I really want more documentation on the DSI interface. :C
[QUOTE=leontodd;34263178]So much wasted side space.[/QUOTE] And thus so much harder to read compared to a scaling web page. Juuuuuust like the Gmod Wiki :v:
VISUAL COMPARISON. [img]http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6303/cleancomparison.png[/img]
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34258633]Nope, its a ARM11 and according to one of the developers it is alot faster.[/QUOTE] ARM11 or not, it's still not any faster than a 100mhz 486.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;34264080]ARM11 or not, it's still not any faster than a 100mhz 486.[/QUOTE] Its alot faster then a 100Mhz i486.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34258633] Nope, its a ARM11 and according to one of the developers it is alot faster.[/QUOTE] ARM11 is slower than ARMv7 processors on a clock for clock basis, which is what many modern Android phones use. Far slower in fact.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34264090]Its alot faster then a 100Mhz i486.[/QUOTE] FYI an iPhone 4's A4 chip is a Cortex-A8 based core, which is incomparably faster than ARM11. Even so, it only performs at the speed of a 166mhz P2 or so. Even if the ARM11 in the RPi it is faster than a 100mhx 486, it won't be too much.
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