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Raspberry Pi Model B

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by danrok, Feb 7, 2014.

  1. danrok

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    Are we going to have to start calling you "Aiden2"?
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    Not quite, this more like hacking for dummies. :p
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Awesome, I'm sure you remember my story...
    Pre-Ordered one and several months went by and the order got mixed up. Never got it and was never charged for it.
    So I still don't have one.
    I love the idea and I'm sure the Ubuntu ARM distro has come a long way. So hopefully there are some gaming capabilities for light gaming by now
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    I have heard that DosBox run on ARM and there are some emulators for PC games....
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Wine developers are also interested in a Wine port to Android. Meaning running PC games on ARM processors.
    If that becomes successful then the list will be even bigger.
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    It's not suited to to running games under Wine. Would be far too slow.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Probably, but maybe there is a chance... programmers seem to figure out anything once they put their minds to it.
    I noticed some comments on Open Arena (Rasberri Pi Store) that it would barely run.
    I know its not made to be a gaming machine, but even Dos games are enough to get few hundred games running.
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    Here it is. :)

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    IMG_20140213_150309.jpg
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    Project One is Bitcoin mining.

    I now have one Antminer U1 ASIC plugged in and working on my Windows box. It's averaging 1.97 Gh/s at stock speed.

    I have another Antminer U1 on the way, plus a USB hub, so I can get both of these mining with the Raspberry Pi.
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    It's a Uno32 - Arduino-ish, but 32bit MIPS core, rather than an 8bit processor. In this particular case, I'm fuzzing EDID data.
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    Dude you are a hardware rockstar!
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    I now have this Raspberry Pi bitcoin mining using bfgminer: http://bfgminer.org/

    The ASIC is now hashing at the same rate as it was on my Windows box. But can be left switched on 24/7 because it is silent, and doesn't use much power.
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    I have had my Pi for a good little while. Neat little gadget. Slow as heck but just dandy for web surfing. It may do a lot more but my skills are limited.
    I am kind of slobbering over an Odroid.
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    That Odroid looks very good, quite a bit more powerful.

    The Pi is ideal for stuff which doesn't need so much processing power.

    Next thing I will be trying is setting-up some kind of Wikipedia bot.
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