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Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 02, 2012, 09:23:34 pm ---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.
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I would be lying if I said understood processor differences on more than the most basic level, but I kind of took it that you could write "drivers" for processors just like you could any other piece of hardware. I don't know how different x86 instructions are from arm, so it could be pointless to write drivers anyway, but I wouldn't rule out windows just yet. If nothing else there are portable flavors of windows that run on arm (ce, ect...) you would be suprised how much of the main windows api is in these portable flavors.
Linux, like you said, is more viable though. The damn problem about linux though is that nobody in the middleware part of our hobby writes for it. You have to start from the ground up when you decide to go the linux route.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 02, 2012, 11:51:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 02, 2012, 09:23:34 pm ---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.
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I would be lying if I said understood processor differences on more than the most basic level, but I kind of took it that you could write "drivers" for processors just like you could any other piece of hardware. I don't know how different x86 instructions are from arm, so it could be pointless to write drivers anyway, but I wouldn't rule out windows just yet. If nothing else there are portable flavors of windows that run on arm (ce, ect...) you would be suprised how much of the main windows api is in these portable flavors.
Linux, like you said, is more viable though. The damn problem about linux though is that nobody in the middleware part of our hobby writes for it. You have to start from the ground up when you decide to go the linux route.
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Get Froyo working on it and you can have Mame4All at least. XMame maybe, but it depends on the drivers. Wait for Puppy Arcade 11.
Howard_Casto:
Well I also read a story that windows 8 is going to support ARM. You'll have to re-compile your apps of course, and there might be a bit of code re-write but it's a full version of windows.
Basically they are doing it because google android scares the crap out of them. IF they did it right (let's face it, it's M$, they have about a 50/50 shot) it would be a game changer. You could write a app for windows 8 and with just the slightest bit of tweaking it would run on a mobile device as well. Hell you might be able to use the old getwindowsversion api to make version specific code and have one app that just runs on both!
newmanfamilyvlogs:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 03, 2012, 06:02:29 pm ---Well I also read a story that windows 8 is going to support ARM. You'll have to re-compile your apps of course, and there might be a bit of code re-write but it's a full version of windows.
Basically they are doing it because google android scares the crap out of them. IF they did it right (let's face it, it's M$, they have about a 50/50 shot) it would be a game changer. You could write a app for windows 8 and with just the slightest bit of tweaking it would run on a mobile device as well. Hell you might be able to use the old getwindowsversion api to make version specific code and have one app that just runs on both!
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My understanding is that the win8 arm support will be limited to Metro apps, and that the whole Win8 on Arm this is in branding only, similar to the Windows phones.
Now you want a more interesting project... Recall that the Windows 2000 source was leaked several years ago. Now there's a porting project.
None the less, there is a full port of Fedora specifically for the Pi in the works:
DaOld Man:
I like Pi with ice cream.
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