Raspberry Pi

[mikiex]

There is a post about this, (but in handheld tech)
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=61034

I've been waiting for this little board to come out and it should be very soon

It would be cool if someone game up with a few standards (maybe it doesnt even need them)
and make a little console out of this.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

It's intriguing, and promising, but I don't think console related unless someone creates a console out of it. If it runs OnLive, it could be a stellar little home device (although someone will need to make a case for it )

 

[Gerry]

It's intriguing, and promising, but I don't think console related unless someone creates a console out of it. If it runs OnLive, it could be a stellar little home device (although someone will need to make a case for it )

The best idea I heard to solve that little problem is to simply make a case out of lego.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

It's intriguing, and promising, but I don't think console related unless someone creates a console out of it. If it runs OnLive, it could be a stellar little home device (although someone will need to make a case for it )

The naked versions are the prototype/engineering samples. The finished thing will probably be like a fat USB stick (like one of those USB TV things).

 

[Gerry]

The naked versions are the prototype/engineering samples. The finished thing will probably be like a fat USB stick (like one of those USB TV things).

Nope. It's getting sold without a case. They say there may be a case made available later at extra cost.

 

[Arwin]

Should be transparent, for educational purposes. I'm mostly worried about control option standardisation. Who wants to make something for mouse & keyboard these days?

Performance at 2x iPhone 4S is good enough to make it interesting without OnLive, but it could be a good basis for it. Doesn't match the device spirit much though.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

OnLive doesn't match the device spirit, but there's no choice but to close this thread or at least move it to the PC section if the discussion isn't console related.

 

[Rodéric]

Should be transparent, for educational purposes. I'm mostly worried about control option standardisation. Who wants to make something for mouse & keyboard these days?

Performance at 2x iPhone 4S is good enough to make it interesting without OnLive, but it could be a good basis for it. Doesn't match the device spirit much though.

I'd advice you to watch the framerate of Quake 3 Arena running on that device before believing what marketing people tell you...

 

[Simon F]

I'd advice you to watch the framerate of Quake 3 Arena running on that device before believing what marketing people tell you...

This

seems to suggest ~20fps or lower. It's been a while since I played an FPS on any device, but that doesn't sound stellar. (Though it was @ 4x AA)

 

[mikiex]

OnLive doesn't match the device spirit, but there's no choice but to close this thread or at least move it to the PC section if the discussion isn't console related.

Well I'm making a console out of mine, so I guess it stays

 

[Shifty Geezer]

As a console it does have fixed hardware. The obvious application would be an Android port and 'droid games. As there are no default IO devices it'd be a hard platform to target.

What we really need to keep this well and truly on topic is the hardware. The Broadcom solution is TBDR as I understand it, and they make lofty claims. Any idea what sort of GPU performance we'll get? Regards that Quake 3 demo, it is 1080p 4xMSAA. do we have any equivalent demos on Tegra or PVR for comparison?

 

[hoho]

seems to suggest ~20fps or lower. It's been a while since I played an FPS on any device, but that doesn't sound stellar. (Though it was @ 4x AA)

20-ish FPS at 1080p+4xAA is rather decent. I'm quite certain it's stuck behind vram bandwidth, not computation. Hell, q3a is so ancient it doesn't really do any computations on the GPU anyway

 

[Dave Glue]

20-ish FPS at 1080p+4xAA is rather decent. I'm quite certain it's stuck behind vram bandwidth, not computation. Hell, q3a is so ancient it doesn't really do any computations on the GPU anyway

They mention in the forum discussion that they're expecting better performance, there's a software bug robably with a library limiting it. Even at 1080p with 4XAA, for twice the performance of the Ipad2 GPU I think 20fps is a little low.

 

[Flux]

How would this do as an indy arcade board?