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ggrobot Elite Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:47 pm Post subject: Turn a Raspberry Pi into the ultimate emulator [34420] |
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RPI Chameleon, a great new project from Carles Oriol, enhances the Pi's time machine like quality, by letting it run emulators for a whole batch of ancient hardware, including the IBM Personal Computer, Atari 2600, Apple II, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Oric-1. It can even run MAME, the arcade emulator, and you
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Csimbi Elite Member
Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 4790 Location: The bright side of the dark side
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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One box to rule them all, avoiding all the clutter and mess (a dozen power bricks, boxes and the need to switch cables).
Precisely why nobody needs a console and why people try to jailbreak current boxes.
I wonder when current vendors are going to realize that. |
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Sabot Elite Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2080 Location: The Dark Side of The Moon
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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Because its to do with the likes of Apple suing Samsung etc over copyright. That is the reason why everything is locked down. Not consoles by a long shot. Every mobile has been rooted to get rid of bloat and generally improve the device. Consoles are jailbroken for piracy, big difference... Consoles cost pennies now, so there is no reason.
It's not like someone (cleverly) takes an Xbox,ps3 and hooks it up to pc's innards to get the best of both worlds, do they? Unlike the heady days of the Amstrad having a Sega genesis/Mega Drive port on its front.
The Pi still has to be careful with ROMs, great for bedrooms but no way would any of it become commercial. Someone owns them.
So it goes full circle.. |
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Csimbi Elite Member
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Let's settle on this: it's an untapped potential.
Why it remains untapped is irrelevant. |
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Tom Elite Member
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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While this is cool, I have a thumb drive like usb stick (mini-pc) running Android and I got access to all my android stuff as well as running xbmc for all my media. My HTPC has been gathering dust for 2 weeks now. |
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Csimbi Elite Member
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:19 am Post subject: |
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Nice, but I would not trust Android; far too many security issues for my taste. |
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