Which reminds me. If anyone else has a raspberry pi, and wants to see
what games are available for it, hop over to
http://www.softcon.com/pi/
and check out what I've already ported/written for the pi for gamers.
Admittedly, it's not much (yet) but I just started, and I expect to have
plenty more on the page eventually.
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015, Travis Siegel wrote:
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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