Re: [Audyssey] Portable interactive fiction game playing device/unit

[Travis Siegel]

I bought a raspberry pi, case, power adapter, and pre-installed raspbian 
system (never did get the sd card with the raspbian installed on it 
though) and the entire bill including shipping was around the 85-90 dollar 
mark.  It's an excellent little unit.  It has 4 cpus in it, and runs at 
1GHZ, with 1GB of ram.  It uses standard micro sd cards, up to 32GB (if I 
remember correctly) though some of the 32 gb cards don't behave properly, 
so there is that to look out for,
but otherwise, it is truly an excellent system.  I'm actually using it as 
my main pc at the moment, since my imac went belly up a few months ago, 
and the only other machine I have is an old xp machine that has some 
serious dll issues, so it doesn't like to run for more than an hour or so 
at a time, depending on when/how windows decides to do things.  I've never 
managed to fix it, because my xp pro disk is unreadable, and I've not 
found another xp pro hd I could copy the dlls from to repair my system.
I have other linux systems in the house, but mine was disassembled to give 
parts to my son who built his own computer for gaming purposes, and I've 
not managed to get the additional parts I needed to rebuild my linux 
machine, so the raspberry pi is filling in quite nicely as my main pc at 
the moment.  It works well enough, and I can run it for about an hour 
using one of those pocket juice things, though I've not (yet) experimented 
with other battery power devices, although there's one on the raspberry 
store that claims 8 hours of usage.  I do plan to purchase one of those, 
so I have a nice portable unit.
I'd actually been considering trying to turn mine into a gaming unit as 
well, (thus the writing of the memory game Jake referred to in his post) 
The sound isn't anything to write home about, so for the moment, complex 
audio games aren't possible, but otherwise, it's quite the neat little 
unit, and I'm looking forward to see what else I can accomplish with it.

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