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Raspberry Pi 2 with Mame - anyone tried it yet?
keilmillerjr:
--- Quote from: lamprey on February 26, 2015, 12:13:33 am ---I have not. I wanted to piggy back on your question and ask if anyone knows about a free version of Windows 10 that is supposed to run on RPi2..? That suggests that we may not need a special build to run on the RPi anymore, but I don't know any of the details, just some rumors.
http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support
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It doesn't suggest anything. Windows does not run on the same processor architecture, and will at least require recompiling for the ARMv7 processor. I doubt that the raspberry pi has enough processing power for an interpreter/emulator..Mac on Intel processors included a binady interpretor for PowerPC to Intel, but runs at 60-80% speed of a native Intel app. Ultimately, support was dropped. Still not happy about the archetecture change.
lamprey:
--- Quote from: EMDB on February 26, 2015, 03:00:24 am ---The Win10 running on the Pi 2 will not be the sane intel/AMD version running on your Desktop PC but a special build so you need an even more special build of MAME to run on it ;D
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--- Quote from: keilmillerjr on February 26, 2015, 07:43:41 am ---It doesn't suggest anything. Windows does not run on the same processor architecture, and will at least require recompiling for the ARMv7 processor. I doubt that the raspberry pi has enough processing power for an interpreter/emulator..Mac on Intel processors included a binady interpretor for PowerPC to Intel, but runs at 60-80% speed of a native Intel app. Ultimately, support was dropped. Still not happy about the archetecture change.
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You guys are, of course, correct. I had a bit of a brain fart last night. :)
nitrogen_widget:
From what i've gleaned off the retropi forum advanced mame .106 is "faster".
But no real details or benchmarks.
I tried to compile advmame .106 on mine using an unofficial minimal debian testing build & it did not go well.
I kept getting compiler errors so i'm going to put raspbian on my pi2 and try again this weekend.
paigeoliver:
It can't be that much faster. Mame isn't going to use the other cores, so what you are left with is a 20 percent increase in clock speed. It struggled terribly before and I don't think a 20 percent increase in clock speed will help very much.
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 26, 2015, 03:42:26 pm ---It can't be that much faster. Mame isn't going to use the other cores, so what you are left with is a 20 percent increase in clock speed. It struggled terribly before and I don't think a 20 percent increase in clock speed will help very much.
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Several benchmarks I've seen suggest that single core performance is about 2.5 times the speed of the previous version of the Pi.
That sounds about right to me as the ARMv7 processor is known to be about twice the speed of the previous generation of ARM processor (assuming an equivalent clock speed).
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