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wizkid32:
--- Quote from: stefano on February 08, 2012, 05:08:36 am ---Or even it could be fitted inside some old but good flat panel TVs providing a modern video player.
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Good idea! I might have to try that myself... Might work well with ark_ader's XBMC suggestion below.
paigeoliver:
If you port an older version of Mame (like .55) than those specs are enough to run basically everything. Assuming a 700 mhz ARM processor can do what a 400 mhz intel one could.
--- Quote from: wizkid32 on January 19, 2012, 12:26:37 am ---Well, I was thinking about an arcade setup. Mainly for bartops, etc., with limited game sets. My rationale is that, while the specs aren't that great, they would still be more than enough to play Donkey Kong and Pac Man. Plus, the small size would fit much better in that tiny cab...
I like the pinball idea, though.
--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 16, 2012, 09:35:03 am ---I'm still maintaining "I'll believe it when I see it" attitude towards this thing.
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"Cynicism is not a good thing"-A quote from Wizkid32 ;D
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Howard_Casto:
As soon as they get back in stock I intend to get one and write some software for it. I'm hoping it can handle a very bare-bones version of windows xp/9x. It's got enough ram, and the storage space is doable... I just don't know about that arm processor.
My thought was to write a custom version of mamehooker for the i/o pins. Then it could essentially act as a drop-in replacement for a broken pcb, even if it's an oddball one with a lot of lights, ect....
If we can't get windoze on it I'm not sure. Mame's output code is still in there, but it only works in windows. Getting it to work in linux, for example could be doable... but getting it to work in dos could prove difficult. Of course the output system is farily new as well. It's more like version .100, not .55. The older builds of mame could be modified, but I'm not really sure if anyone is willing to maintain an ancient build of mame anymore.
I think for standard mame it's a no-brainer, but if you want to do anything more than that, we are going to have to wait and see what OSes people manage to install on the thing. Many of the ideas brought up thus-far sound very windows/linux gui centric.... and it may have trouble handling that. Then again most of the tablets on the market run on arm processors so I dunno.
I think pbj's cynicism is mertied in this case. It took the guy 6 YEARS to get the thing out on the shelves. That's duke nukem forever territory. This very easily could have gone the other way. I'm very gald it didn't though!
paigeoliver:
Howard, it has an arm processor not a x86 one. That sort of makes windows or DOS impossible to run since they aren't written for arm processors.
You have linux and all those offshoots.
But QNX could be promising as well. It is super fast, uses almost no resources, runs on arm and there is an existing mame port for it. It is a really old one, but I doubt a lot of substantial games that can run on that processor have been added to mame since then.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 02, 2012, 09:07:44 pm ---Don't encourage me, I'm obnoxious enough already.
Your replacement PCB idea is intriguing, do you have any specific applications you're thinking about?
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Well a couple of things just pop off the top of my head.
You know these vector boards that were popular for mame a few years back? Screw a board that you hook between a pc, just have all the vector games on the pi using the i/o pins to directly drive a vector monitor! Not sure if I"m talented enough to do that personally, but somebody here could.
I think the pinball idea is fantastic... resurrecting pinball 2000 style games would be possible with such a board.
I think it would be cool to use the i/o pins to trigger synth boards instead of playing samples in mame.... again, a bit complex, but not impossible.
And of course there are those crazy games with force-feedback that could use help.
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