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Raspberry Pi and MAME - Hands on
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on June 20, 2012, 09:37:20 pm ---I cancelled my preorder. I'm going to wait for Pi 2.0.
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I think I have the update as there is no digital coax (except through HDMI) instead there is a 3.5 headphone jack.
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on June 21, 2012, 01:35:00 pm ---Did you get it from Newark or some other source?
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Newark/Element14. I've bought stuff from them before so maybe because I was a previous customer I got free shipping. I have no clue.
yotsuya:
Mine was preordered from Newark, and they only ever quoted me $35. The card I used to preorder it expired so it got held up, but I decided to cancel since I'm too busy to fiddle with it and didn't want to leave it lying around when someone else could use it.
PoDunkMoFo:
http://hackaday.com/2012/06/22/gooseberry-is-the-latest-arm-linux-board/
Silas (son of Silas):
--- Quote from: saint on June 20, 2012, 09:21:21 am ---Threadjack - those who have the Pi in hand, comments please on the suitability for:
1. Running an MP3 jukebox? Don't really care which as long as it has some sort of decent GUI and can pull off a network share. Touch screen monitor hookup? I'm going to guess it's a no on that one?
2. Booting straight up into a slideshow, again preferably running off a share but not required, with the monitor in portrait mode.
Thanks!
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1. Perfect. XBMC is a really slick jukebox / media player that runs on the pi. I recommend the RaspBMC build. Currently in RC3, and gets better every day. Boots in 20 seconds and supports remote controls, youtube videos etc etc. very nice. NB: as far as touch screens go, There's a few people on car computer forums who have done it already. There's a touchscreen skin for XBMC that seems pretty good.
2. Easy.
Install eog
create a text file called slideshow.sh with the following contents:
--- Quote ---#!/bin/bash
xrandr -o 1
eog -f --slide-show $HOME/Pictures
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Change the permissions to make the file executable then select slideshow.sh as a startup application. Modify your fstab file to automatically mount your share in your picture directory and you are done.
xrandr will rotate the screen to fit portrait mode.
If you need help setting it up PM me.
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