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Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Post by coolnow »

SSilver2k2 wrote: post #9

If anyone wants a quick way to play Arcade and Playstation games on their Raspberry Pi, I'm maintaining a distro that does just that: http://pimame.org

Looks like just what i needed. However, i couldn't find much information about it on your site. What kind of systems does it support apart from PS1 and arcade machines? SNES? NES? Megadrive? What kind of controllers? Xbox 360? How are ROMS loaded? USB?

Answers to these questions should be easily accessible to any prospective user (i don't have my Pi available to test the distro), but then again, i suspect this project only started very recently and you're already planning on updating the website.

Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Post by SSilver2k2 »

coolnow wrote: post #11
SSilver2k2 wrote: post #9

If anyone wants a quick way to play Arcade and Playstation games on their Raspberry Pi, I'm maintaining a distro that does just that: http://pimame.org

Looks like just what i needed. However, i couldn't find much information about it on your site. What kind of systems does it support apart from PS1 and arcade machines? SNES? NES? Megadrive? What kind of controllers? Xbox 360? How are ROMS loaded? USB? Answers to these questions should be easily accessible to any prospective user (i don't have my Pi available to test the distro), but then again, i suspect this projec…

Yep. I recently launched PiMAME.org - Most of the info is on http://blog.sheasilverman.com, but this weekend I plan on updating the main site.

Right now includes AdvanceMAME, GNGeo (NeoGeo), and PCSX_ReARMed (Playstation).

The installer is available on github: http://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer

I'm planning on adding AdvanceMESS, SNES9x, and MAME4All this weekend.

Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Post by drivers99 »

johnohara wrote: post #6
mtdev wrote: post #2

Anyone considering doing a raspberry pi project may want to look at the new beaglebone black. It is marginally more expensive, has better performance, is completely open and has a fairly good software support community. http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black

Mine arrived two days ago. Beautifully laid out, two symmetrical 46-pin female headers, micro hdmi and microSDHC. Boots flawlessly and looks like a usb drive to Win 7. You need a magnifying glass to see some of the components on its underbelly. John Clark has just created a new website called armhf.com which has step by step instructions for loading Ubuntu 13.04 into eMMC memory. Site's 20 days old and provides image…

microSD slot and normal HDMI I believe

Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Post by georgemcbay »

mtdev wrote: post #2

Anyone considering doing a raspberry pi project may want to look at the new beaglebone black. It is marginally more expensive, has better performance, is completely open and has a fairly good software support community. http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black

I've got a couple of BeagleBone Blacks, they are great devices.

I love writing Go code on them:

http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/05/go-on-the-beaglebone-black/

http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/05/more-go-on-the-beaglebone-blac...

One caveat emptor for them vs the Pi though is that it doesn't have the GPU assisted video-decoding ability of the Pi (which, despite not being one of the main goals of the Pi ended up being an important factor in the success of the platform, IMO) and even for just basic framebuffer and 3D graphics they do not support 1920x1080 output currently (and if they do in the future it'll likely be limited to a slow refresh rate due to pixel clock limitations). For many people/projects this doesn't matter and the much better GPIO of the BeagleBone (and the presence of a couple of real-time capable microcontrollers separate from the ARM cpu) would be more important than the video limitations.

Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Post by georgemcbay »

drivers99 wrote: post #13
johnohara wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine arrived two days ago. Beautifully laid out, two symmetrical 46-pin female headers, micro hdmi and microSDHC. Boots flawlessly and looks like a usb drive to Win 7. You need a magnifying glass to see some of the components on its underbelly. John Clark has just created a new website called armhf.com which has step by step instructions for loading Ubuntu 13.04 into eMMC memory. Site's 20 days old and provides image…

microSD slot and normal HDMI I believe

HDMI connector on the BeagleBone Black is (unlike the Raspberry Pi) micro-HDMI.

Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

#16

Post by nfriedly »

mtdev wrote: post #2

Anyone considering doing a raspberry pi project may want to look at the new beaglebone black. It is marginally more expensive, has better performance, is completely open and has a fairly good software support community. http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black

How responsive is the BeagleBone Black as a desktop computer?

Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Post by coolnow »

SSilver2k2 wrote: post #12
coolnow wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like just what i needed. However, i couldn't find much information about it on your site. What kind of systems does it support apart from PS1 and arcade machines? SNES? NES? Megadrive? What kind of controllers? Xbox 360? How are ROMS loaded? USB? Answers to these questions should be easily accessible to any prospective user (i don't have my Pi available to test the distro), but then again, i suspect this projec…

Yep. I recently launched PiMAME.org - Most of the info is on http://blog.sheasilverman.com , but this weekend I plan on updating the main site. Right now includes AdvanceMAME, GNGeo (NeoGeo), and PCSX_ReARMed (Playstation). The installer is available on github: http://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer I'm planning on adding AdvanceMESS, SNES9x, and MAME4All this weekend.

Great! There're also videos on your blog which is helpful. I'll be keeping an eye on this project, and once i get my Pi back from, i'll be sure to check your distro out.

Re: Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

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Post by newman314 »

mtdev wrote: post #2

Anyone considering doing a raspberry pi project may want to look at the new beaglebone black. It is marginally more expensive, has better performance, is completely open and has a fairly good software support community. http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black

Does the BeagleBone Black have a distribution that supports ARM hfp?
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