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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by eru »

themodelplumber wrote: post #104
rb808 wrote: post #82

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I must be the only one disappointed with old-school games. I was super excited to set up a retropie, after 20 minutes playing the nostalgia wore off quickly. Anyone else find the same?

I dunno. I just set up DreamSNES for my son the other day and he played Metroid until we basically had to threaten to burn all of his toys just so he would put down the controller. But yeah, I guess speaking of myself there's not a lot of lasting interest there.

Metroid or Super Metroid?

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by Relys »

morganvachon wrote: post #133
2bitencryption wrote: post #85

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On the Pi 2, the ethernet port was really a USB-to-ethernet port plugged into a hidden USB port. So network speeds were limited to USB 2 speeds. I'm guessing the Pi 3 also works like this, instead of having pure onboard ethernet? But I don't know yet.

> So network speeds were limited to USB 2 speeds Given that USB 2.0 is 480Mb/s, and Ethernet is 100Mb/s, there is no bottleneck when using the Pi's Ethernet port. I really wish this myth that "Pi Ethernet is slower than dialup because USB" would just die. Of course, like everyone else I'd love to see a new version of the Pi with Gigabit Ethernet directly connected to the system bus, and USB 3.0 while we're at it. But…

We can still dream can't we? I hope to see this in the future.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by eru »

sixothree wrote: post #121
rb808 wrote: post #82

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I must be the only one disappointed with old-school games. I was super excited to set up a retropie, after 20 minutes playing the nostalgia wore off quickly. Anyone else find the same?

Gaming has evolved tremendously and there are a lot of not so great elements to vintage computing. I go back to games I spent days straight playing and find them impossibly awful. That said there are a lot of absolute gems. To find them search youtube for "best games".

Also, lots of classic PC games have fan made patches (or even remakes) that often remove bugs and help balance.

Master of Orion and the original XCom are just two examples. More recently, the gamemaker version of Spelunky has people still fixing it.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by Relys »

mciancia wrote: post #129
Snorlack wrote: post #54

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It's already $4 with the new ESP8266-EX from WeMos! Full WiFi stack, 11x GPIO, Analog in, SPI, I2C, 80/160Mhz, 4MB Flash, power/flashing over USB, supported by the Arduino IDE, or just use the NodeMCU Lua firmware with modules for most sensors, displays, MQTT etc. I'm having a blast with them right now. (Edit: http://www.wemos.cc/wiki/doku.php?id=en:d1_mini )

WTF is WeMos? ESP8266 module itself costs below $2

Ummm, I believe it's a board you can surface mount the ESP8266 on to.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by Relys »

Squonk42 wrote: post #80
whichfawkes wrote: post #27

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As the other poster mentioned, they've typically been $35. The barrier of entry for IoT is still pretty low though, you can get an ESP8266 for ~$2/ea. That'll handle wifi and can also be your application processor. For another ~$2-3 you could add on a BLE module too.

ESP32 is coming with both Wi-Fi and BLE: http://espressif.com/products/hardware/esp32/overview

Nice!

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by teach »

andrepd wrote: post #136
Danilka wrote: post #102

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The bigger underlying problem is that we associate those games with happy periods of our lives. The once where we could play games, do projects and not worry about anything else. By playing an old school game, your brain extracts these happy feelings from the memory. However, it's not a sustainable source of "fun" per say. As opposed to the newer games where "fun" is being caused by the game directly.

I strongly disagree. I have zero interest in today's bloated AAA games. Simple games like Tetris, Mario + romhacks, or Civ II have given me collectively more fun that I would ever have playing some insipid shooter or uninspired pay2win fantasy game. I wouldn't trade them for any of today's games, which I consider severely flawed in many ways.

When they speak of "old" games, I do not think they are thinking of Mario or Tetris, which are a decade newer and orders of magnitude better than some "classic" games.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by IMTDb »

haberman wrote: post #62
_lce0 wrote: post #4

Raspberry is the most important project that made my family interested in "computer things" It gathered the whole family together to play old couch-games[0], something that most powerful consoles haven't even been close --specially with the grampas Really exited about what the future will bring us! 0: http://emulationstation.org/

I don't get how ROMs for the old systems continue to be so easily available. I'm really glad they are, but how have all of the ROM hosting sites note been DMCA takedown'd into oblivion?

Some game have "lost" ownership. Say that old game studio that developed GameBoy game has gone bankrupt, no one is going to enforce the copyright

Most game or not reedited so there is no money to gain fom preventing them from being online. It may even help to keep the brand alive in case a reboot in programmed (Eg: tomb raider)

Often it's a simple calculation of how much revenue could be won if you factor in the fact that you need to pay the team to find the ROM's, send the letters and enforce them once in a while. Basically it's nearly never worth it.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by nfriedly »

nfriedly wrote: post #41

Comparing the photos to my Pi 2, it doesn't seem very different. There's an extra IC near the microsd card, a connector beneath the HDMI port, and a few other small changes. But nothing that looks like an antenna. Any idea where that might be? Edit: as lovelearning pointed out, there is a small ceramic-looking piece in the upper-left of the top side, near the GPIO pins and LVDS display connector. That might be it.

Also worth noting: the new IC and the suspected ceramic antenna are in about the same place on opposite sides of the pcb. So I think that lends some credence to the idea that is is an antenna.

Man they can make small antennas these days...

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by themodelplumber »

eru wrote: post #151
themodelplumber wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno. I just set up DreamSNES for my son the other day and he played Metroid until we basically had to threaten to burn all of his toys just so he would put down the controller. But yeah, I guess speaking of myself there's not a lot of lasting interest there.

Metroid or Super Metroid?

IDK the one where you jump out of a crashing spaceship and explore some lonely tunnels.

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

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Post by andrepd »

teach wrote: post #156
andrepd wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I strongly disagree. I have zero interest in today's bloated AAA games. Simple games like Tetris, Mario + romhacks, or Civ II have given me collectively more fun that I would ever have playing some insipid shooter or uninspired pay2win fantasy game. I wouldn't trade them for any of today's games, which I consider severely flawed in many ways.

When they speak of "old" games, I do not think they are thinking of Mario or Tetris, which are a decade newer and orders of magnitude better than some "classic" games.

A 31 year old game I feel qualifies as "old". What is old, then, pong on an oscilloscope? :p
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