Hi Travis, I have been thinking about a Raspberry Pie for a while. You answered many of my questions with this post but one that I have is how easy is it to set up with a visual impairment?
Also, you had mentioned that the sound is not great. I assume you can plug a headset into one? Considering the headset idea, would it then be possible to install a third-party audio library such as OpenAL? You can see where I am going here. I am wondering what would need to be done here to bring this closer to an audio gaming environment. Thanks for any feedback or insights you may have. Have a great day! Cheers! Cara --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/models/Cara-Quinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Nov 15, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Travis Siegel <tsie...@nfbcal.org> 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. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
