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Sure, Moon Lander. Original Sprint. The dragster one. 31 years ago was at about the end of the Golden Age of video games.
The golden age ends roughly 16 years after the birth of the observer.
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…
Wow, attitude much?
Just to counter your anecdotal data with some other anecdotal data, I have 2 different random USB wifi dongles I got from ebay for a couple of £ (different chipsets) and they were both plug-and-play.
having recently sourced near identical components, the combo wifi/bt chip was around $1.40 in large volume. I'd wage in 40nm its gotta assume this is connected via USB so it won't be the lowest power - taking up the 2836's sdcard slot would be 6 IO out of the GPIO map which would be over kill. so most likely this solution needs the onboard USB hub / ethernet chip and its less likely they will bring connectivity to th…
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> 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.
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http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/02/27/raspberry-pi-3-model-...
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Metroid or Super Metroid?
IDK the one where you jump out of a crashing spaceship and explore some lonely tunnels.
I tried the NES original Metroid (also emulated) later, and I was surprised of how many of the game elements were already in place on the much weaker system.
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The golden age ends roughly 16 years after the birth of the observer.
Ha ha, I get your point, but the GAoVG is a specific era, roughly 1979-1985. :)
Restricting to arcade games is probably justified. I'd say we are in the golden age of video games right now---at least in terms of popularity. And you can still get remakes of all the good old games, or even play the originals.
I'm a little disappointed that (from a brief glance at the documents) it doesn't appear to support the 5 Ghz Wi-Fi band. I wonder if it's a power issue, or just limited space on the PCB. The 2.4 Ghz band gets kind of crowded in dense urban environments.
Same here. I moved the AppleTV and the Roku to a wired connection and had to set up a second wireless network to be able to browse from the kitchen. Any time I fire up Wifi Analyzer on my tablet I see three dozen different networks. Making computers easy to use was, definitely, a huge mistake.
3 Generations of PCBs and still no RTC onboard...
