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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by raytopia »

Narishma wrote: post #717
raytopia wrote: post #684

I've had this idea for a while now but what if someone built a game console based on the Pi hardware? I know lots of people use their pi's for retro gaming but I'd really like to see some new games made for the hardware. Does anyone know if there's a group working on this or would be interested in creating one?

I feel like the GPU on the Pi is pretty weak. It was fine in the first model, but they haven't improved it much in subsequent versions compared to the CPU.

It is pretty weak but that might be a plus because it sets the ceiling for what can be made and would somewhat prevent the insanely long dev cycles we have today.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by raytopia »

reedlaw wrote: post #714
raytopia wrote: post #684

I've had this idea for a while now but what if someone built a game console based on the Pi hardware? I know lots of people use their pi's for retro gaming but I'd really like to see some new games made for the hardware. Does anyone know if there's a group working on this or would be interested in creating one?

It would likely be similar to gaming on Linux but with the limitations of ARM-only and OpenGL ES 3.1 or Vulkan 1.2. [1] What would be more interesting is an open source micro-kernel and gaming SDK targeting Raspberry Pi. 1. See https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Linux_ARM_games

I think it could avoid some of the issues with gaming on linux because you could focus in on a unified platform and if there was a gaming SDK targeting the pi we might see orginal games being made as opposed to just ports.

Also what exactly would a micro-kernel entail? I'm much more familiar with game development than os development.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by raytopia »

ketralnis wrote: post #725
raytopia wrote: post #684

I've had this idea for a while now but what if someone built a game console based on the Pi hardware? I know lots of people use their pi's for retro gaming but I'd really like to see some new games made for the hardware. Does anyone know if there's a group working on this or would be interested in creating one?

The Pi is an ARM chip on a board with I/O for HDMI etc. There are plenty of ARM game consoles including the Nintendo Switch

The hardware is definitely capable of becoming a console. It just needs a community making games for it.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by raytopia »

raytopia wrote: post #684

I've had this idea for a while now but what if someone built a game console based on the Pi hardware? I know lots of people use their pi's for retro gaming but I'd really like to see some new games made for the hardware. Does anyone know if there's a group working on this or would be interested in creating one?

I've made a github page if anyone wants to collaborate on this idea.

https://www.github.com/raytopianprojects/gamedev-pie

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by pixl97 »

GOONIMMUNE wrote: post #747
gerdesj wrote: post #729

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You can get some rather large USB sticks these days. Amazon is awash with 928Gb units for about £10 which are probably not the best. A 256GB or 512GB from a known brand is around £30-50. There are several USB ports on a Pi and you can always boot off a SD card. Finally, if a network is available then network boot and use NFS or whatever. The RTC is a cool addition and long overdue. At work I have three Pi 3s with GPS…

FYI I believe all of those ~1TB $10-20 USB drives on amazon are scams- basically set up to trick your computer into showing a terabyte of disk space available, but not actually having that much available if you try to write it all. I was in the market for "largest reasonably priced usb drive" earlier this year and ended up with a 1 TB usb drive for about $80.

I wish some attorney general would buy a bunch of them and then just proceed to sue the shit out of Amazon so hard that Amazon finally gets off it tail and does something.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by [deleted] »

wredue wrote: post #557
sapiogram wrote: post #500

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> If you must use average, then you should remove the top 5% from the average. 5% is too arbitrary, just use the median.

5% is not arbitrary. It is removing massively skewing outliers who also see a massive growth outlier compared to everyone else. Looking at wage movement as slices of where one falls gives a clearer picture. Additionally, the reason it doesn’t make sense to remove low wage outliers while removing high wage outliers for average is because the median wage is closer to low wage outliers than it is to high wage outliers.…

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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by squeaky-clean »

wredue wrote: post #557
sapiogram wrote: post #500

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you must use average, then you should remove the top 5% from the average. 5% is too arbitrary, just use the median.

5% is not arbitrary. It is removing massively skewing outliers who also see a massive growth outlier compared to everyone else. Looking at wage movement as slices of where one falls gives a clearer picture. Additionally, the reason it doesn’t make sense to remove low wage outliers while removing high wage outliers for average is because the median wage is closer to low wage outliers than it is to high wage outliers.…

It's arbitrary because why not 4% or 6%. 5 just happens to be a pleasant number but there's nothing special about it in an economic sense.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by esrauch »

agloe_dreams wrote: post #584
LeafItAlone wrote: post #560

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> You can get considerably more powerful mini PCs for less than a 4GB Pi5 with needed accessories that is upgradable What suggestions do you have for this? I’m sure some people can find these, but every time I see comments like these (or ones that actually give specifics), it’s always used ones on eBay that aren’t actually better and are in unknown condition. I’m not doubting that some people come out ahead, but for…

The used on ebay is the actual upside. The issue is that most people do not need the size of a Pi and using used hardware is reducing eWaste. That said, my personal grab was an Acer refurbished Acer XC-830 J4125 for $89.

While that looks like a nice small-ish tower PC it doesn't seem like it's in the same class as an rPI on a lot of axes, it seems half way between an rPI and a full desktop tower.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by actionfromafar »

pixl97 wrote: post #755
GOONIMMUNE wrote: post #747

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI I believe all of those ~1TB $10-20 USB drives on amazon are scams- basically set up to trick your computer into showing a terabyte of disk space available, but not actually having that much available if you try to write it all. I was in the market for "largest reasonably priced usb drive" earlier this year and ended up with a 1 TB usb drive for about $80.

I wish some attorney general would buy a bunch of them and then just proceed to sue the shit out of Amazon so hard that Amazon finally gets off it tail and does something.

Does something, like getting a new attorney general I guess.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by m01 »

phkahler wrote: post #731

Will it run Wayland?

yes, according to [1]

> A newer, better Raspberry Pi OS

> [...] This is based on the most recent release of Debian (and its derivative Raspbian), codenamed “Bookworm”, and incorporates numerous enhancements, notably the transition from X11 to the Wayfire Wayland compositor on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/

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