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TheShaner:

I have been jacking with the BeagleBoard, but the Angstrom load that comes on it is giving me a bit of hassle with the Monitor I am trying to use.  Gonna get Ubuntu loaded on it today probably and try moving forward from there.  Other than this driver issue though, this little board is pretty sweet.

Slippyblade:

Necro bump!  Any more info or developments on this front?  How'd the Beaglebone Black work out?

twistedsymphony:


--- Quote from: shponglefan on June 17, 2013, 01:11:17 am ---I think of one thing which is missing in this conversation is that there are different solutions for different situations.  There is no one single perfect be-all-and-end-all MAME solution.

For example, people have tossed out the idea of older pentiums.  But those have drawbacks such as increased power consumption, heat, size, incompatibility with newer storage devices, larger footprint, and so on.

On the other hand the Pi, while not the most advanced kid on the block is tiny, no moving parts, no heat issues, low power consumption.

It really comes down to what is more important to the person in question doing the build.  In the case of the OP, he specifically mentioned no moving parts.  So that mostly rules out an old P4.

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They make giant fan-less heat-sync modules for traditional PCs, they even make them specifically for the P4: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article118-page1.html

as for the hard dive if the older mobo doesn't have STA ports you can get an PCI adapter card to run SSDs... or run an IDE based Disc on Module or CF adapter.

These options are obviously a bit more expensive but they exist non-the-less.

sharpfork:

I think something being missed in this conversation is the simplicity of dropping a fully configured Linux build on an SD card compared to dealing with a full OS and hardware specific drivers and such.  If you like tinkering with Windows, the choice is clearer.  If you don't, the value of something like the piplay kickstarter (raspi + bbb) making an emulatuon appliance outweighs the flexibility you get with a pc.

2084:


--- Quote from: sharpfork on June 02, 2014, 11:41:24 am ---I think something being missed in this conversation is the simplicity of dropping a fully configured Linux build on an SD card compared to dealing with a full OS and hardware specific drivers and such.  If you like tinkering with Windows, the choice is clearer.  If you don't, the value of something like the piplay kickstarter (raspi + bbb) making an emulatuon appliance outweighs the flexibility you get with a pc.

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I agree.  This threat started talking about using a Raspberry Pi and almost everyone jumped on the using a Windows PC.  I have now built 6 MAME cabinets.  In 4 of those I have used the raspberry PI.  Those machines are mostly dedicated to a single game (Rampage, Robotron, Startgate, and Tempest) which for those games they do as well as a PC.  The Raspberry Pi clearly isn't the right choice for every situation but it is a great option.

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