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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 jtolmar »

rb808 wrote: post #82
_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 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?

It depends on the game and your expectations. Super Mario Kart is basically obsolete unless you have very specific acquired tastes. Super Mario Bros 3 is still one of the greatest games ever created, but if you go play it, it will just be better than most other platformers, not bring back the magic of childhood.

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

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Post by Sanddancer »

khedoros wrote: post #120
azinman2 wrote: post #58

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Please do! I couldn't get full speed Mario on my i7 Mac which is way more powerful than a pi!

...Which is sad. I played Mario64 in Corn on a 400MHz K6-2 around Y2K. Nemu+1964+Project64 each handled more, but it seems like I had to wait for my Athlon XP before my machine was fast enough to be useful.

Good emulation is hard, especially when you're dealing with code that was built around the bugs, quirks, and timing issues that the original SNES authors had to deal with. Then you have to worry about buggy software that works because of undefined behavior [1, see Speedy Gonzales]. More recent emulators have focused more on correctness than speed, because it means less work trying to patch and hack around broken games.

[1] http://helmet.kafuka.org/state3.html

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

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Post by ekianjo »

incepted wrote: post #170
aluhut wrote: post #125

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I have a collection of old C64 games flying around on some of my external drives. Never got to play them. But one day I remembered Deuteros. An old Amiga game. I made it through the whole game back then without knowing English at all. I was so proud back then, I had to pick it up. I couldn't believe it but I played it through all the way again. I really can't say what it was exactly but I guess it was the flashback.…

I totally remember Deuteros. It was riveting. I remember adding more and more stations and bases, I thought I had the game down, and then after deploying a certain number of stations, I triggered a reaction from the aliens and little by little, they started destroying all my empire. I was never able to beat that game. But what a memory.

Oh ~~ people mentioning Deuteros! That's certainly something I don't see often when people talk about retro games. It was indeed an excellent management game.

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

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Post by ekianjo »

nkrisc wrote: post #87
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 think some of that has to do with the fact that a lot of those older games aren't really as fun as we remembered them to be. There's some classic gems, to be sure, but they were also all we had.

> There's some classic gems, to be sure, but they were also all we had.

Some stuff has aged, but some of the best games are in the past and have never been "reached" by any newer game. Ultima 7 is an example of such games - there's just nothing that comes close to it even in modern RPGs.

For 2D platforms the best was made in the past again. All the newer Mario games are either too easy or uninspired, or both.

There's a whole bunch of genres that has been completely a abandoned by publishers and devs for years (simulators, adventure games, RTS, even RPGs - sure we get Witcher 3 recently, but there's really nothing much else on the radar, there's too few of them now compared to how many we were getting back in the days).

It's been many years that the main production money goes into making GTA, First Person Shooters, Open World games, Racing games and that's about it. Of course the indie market is very much alive, but you can't compare the level of contents made 20 years ago by large teams versus 1-2 folks making games nowadays.

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

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Post by ekianjo »

malka wrote: post #179
andrepd wrote: post #162

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I don't doubt it. I only say that the percentage of good older games is at least equivalent, if not greater, than the percentage of good newer games.

i disagree with you. i think the bad games end up being forgotten.

Nope, they are still getting a lot of exposure on retro websites and even GOG (despite calling themselves Good Old Games there's also some not-so-good games in their catalog).

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

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Post by School-Cotton »

IMTDb wrote: post #157
haberman wrote: post #62

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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…

Are you French?

"reedited" should be "republished", I think :)

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

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Post by random55643 »

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…

I just want a 64bit one. I put in an order for a Pine 64.

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

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Post by roel_v »

dbcurtis wrote: post #132
ck2 wrote: post #93

But you can get almost any wireless ability and keep modern with whatever standard changes by simply using a usb stick. They are super tiny now and barely stick out of the usb port. Why hardwire wireless and outdate a board a few years later? I think in 5 years we got g -> n -> 5ghz -> ac and three bluetooth variants. Now there is indoor lte and other stuff coming.

So, how much time did it take you to get the WiFi stack working on your RasPi? Oh? You've never actually tried to get WiFi working on a Pi? Thought so. Getting WiFi to work on a Pi has historically been an exercise in very, very careful shopping for a dongle that actually works. Or getting lucky. Things may have changed recently, but many Pi users have stubbed their toe on the finding-a-Wifi-dongle-that-works rock. H…

Despite having left Linux as my full time platform before wifi was ubiquitous, it took me 10 minutes or so. That included looking up how the ui was supposed to work. I don't have a dog in this fight, but getting wifi running took me less time than figuring out the volume settings.

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

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Post by aluhut »

incepted wrote: post #170
aluhut wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a collection of old C64 games flying around on some of my external drives. Never got to play them. But one day I remembered Deuteros. An old Amiga game. I made it through the whole game back then without knowing English at all. I was so proud back then, I had to pick it up. I couldn't believe it but I played it through all the way again. I really can't say what it was exactly but I guess it was the flashback.…

I totally remember Deuteros. It was riveting. I remember adding more and more stations and bases, I thought I had the game down, and then after deploying a certain number of stations, I triggered a reaction from the aliens and little by little, they started destroying all my empire. I was never able to beat that game. But what a memory.

You should try again ;)
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