anyone have one yet? thinking of making a chess computer with mine....
To this day, I still can't see the point of a Raspberry Pi.
It can do everything a good ol' desktop computer can do, but slower. Oh, and it can't do most things a good ol' desktop computer can do as it's so goddamn underpowered. Forget anything 3D and games at the very least.
The only 2 uses for a Pi I can think of: a) learning ARM assembly though only systems programmers will find this useful, really and b) hosting an IRC bot.
There is also the media centre option (OpenELEC) (also XBMC rules, simply the best solution out there both commercial and not), but I wouldn't buy into that as it has no disc drive and an external one would cost more than the Pi itself.
It can do everything a good ol' desktop computer can do, but slower. Oh, and it can't do most things a good ol' desktop computer can do as it's so goddamn underpowered. Forget anything 3D and games at the very least.
The only 2 uses for a Pi I can think of: a) learning ARM assembly though only systems programmers will find this useful, really and b) hosting an IRC bot.
There is also the media centre option (OpenELEC) (also XBMC rules, simply the best solution out there both commercial and not), but I wouldn't buy into that as it has no disc drive and an external one would cost more than the Pi itself.
lol... Rasp pi s are changing the world. The original purpose was for those to poor to afford a real computer. Not the company is an enterprise, the rasp pi itself is a hobby for many computer geeks such as myself. Robotics, gaming, and basic computer operations are all possible with the pi. Games like N64 roms...
I don't know about you, but I really like the PI!
I don't know about you, but I really like the PI!
"Games like N64 roms..."
Wait, what do you mean?
I never heard of this raspberry pie, and I haven't eaten one in a while. But is it a 64-bit processor?
"a) learning ARM assembly though only systems programmers will find this useful, really"
No, not "really", because the people working on GameBoy Advance emulators don't need to be system programmers, just to know about the ARM core.
Wait, what do you mean?
I never heard of this raspberry pie, and I haven't eaten one in a while. But is it a 64-bit processor?
"a) learning ARM assembly though only systems programmers will find this useful, really"
No, not "really", because the people working on GameBoy Advance emulators don't need to be system programmers, just to know about the ARM core.
Well that's what he said earlier; I was just trying to figure out what the base machine word size is. That Wiki page doesn't seem to tell it.
Any idea why it would be good for running N64 games, as you said?
Just curious.
Any idea why it would be good for running N64 games, as you said?
Just curious.
I think it might be the low amount of graphics/ processor/ ram needed to run them. My old pentium 2 can run an emulator for the N64 at 37 fps. Pretty epic considering it's age! :P
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