RaspberryPI

[hp]

Listed directly from the RaspberryPI site

"At the celebrations for the BBC Micro’s 30th birthday on Sunday (more
on that to come, when the organisers’ videos are available), we met the
rather excellent Andy Taylor. Andy volunteers for the UK Computer
Museum, and had been working on getting their Raspberry Pi software
ready to exhibit at the event. Rather than sitting back and twiddling
his thumbs when he was done, he decided to fill his spare time by
porting Fuse, a ZX Spectrum emulator, to the Raspberry Pi. I’m not sure
why (nostalgia’s a powerful thing), but seeing Manic Miner running on a
Raspberry Pi was, for me, even cooler than seeing Quake 3 back when we
demoed it last year. (I note we never did set up that Deathmatch. I
shall add it to the Big List of Things to Do.)"

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

[Duncan Snowden]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:23:13 -0400
hp <fe...@farkel.net> wrote:

> porting Fuse, a ZX Spectrum emulator, to the Raspberry Pi.

Cool. But I would have expected it just to build and run under ArchARM,
without anything in the way of porting. Just grab the PKGBUILD and
patches from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10350, add 'arm'
to the “arch=” field, and go. After doing the same for libspectrum
etc., of course.

Presumably Fedora wouldn't be much harder: you'd just have to build
it without any help, doing the old “configure && make && make install”
dance.

Or am I missing something? The only ARM device running Arch that I have
at the moment (until I buy a couple of dozen[1] Raspberry Pies[2]) is
headless, so I've never tried it. Is there x86 code in there?

[1] I may be exaggerating. A bit.

[2] "Pis" just looked wrong.

--
Duncan Snowden.

[Chris Young]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:24:19 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Duncan Snowden:

> Or am I missing something? The only ARM device running Arch that I have
> at the moment (until I buy a couple of dozen[1] Raspberry Pies[2]) is
> headless, so I've never tried it. Is there x86 code in there?

In FUSE? It works on PPC, so no there isn't. Unless there's
something special about the X frontend that I'm not aware of.

> [2] "Pis" just looked wrong.

Surely it should be nPI (where PI should be a PI symbol, but I'm
restricted to ISO-8859-1 in this ancient newsreader so I can't type
one, at least not without it being translated to something else at the
other end), where n is an integer representing the multiple of PI that
you intend to purchase?

Chris


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[Guesser]

On 05/04/2012 16:24, Duncan Snowden wrote:
>
> [2] "Pis" just looked wrong.
>

I thought Raspberry Piss was the new flavour of Panda Pops.

[Duncan Snowden]

On 5 Apr 2012 18:46:00 +0100

"Chris Young" <chris....@mail-filter.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:24:19 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were
> rappin' to MC Duncan Snowden:
>

> > Is there x86 code in there?
>
> In FUSE? It works on PPC, so no there isn't. Unless there's
> something special about the X frontend that I'm not aware of.

Didn't think so. And he's using the SDL frontend on the framebuffer, so
no X.

I don't want to sound like I'm criticizing here. I *suppose* building
packages for whatever distro he's running on his Pi counts as
“porting”. It just seemed an awfully highfalutin' way to put it. And
maybe I'm wrong in assuming that there wasn't more to it.

But kudos to the guy for showing the wider Pi community what's possible
with the thing. It's totally awesome (like, dude) that it works at all.

> > [2] "Pis" just looked wrong.
>
> Surely it should be nPI (where PI should be a PI symbol, but I'm
> restricted to ISO-8859-1 in this ancient newsreader so I can't type
> one, at least not without it being translated to something else at the
> other end), where n is an integer representing the multiple of PI that
> you intend to purchase?

Never thought of that.

And that's why, after thirty years, I'm still a bit crap at all this
computer-programming-geekery business. The only reason I know more than
the average bloke in the street is that I've been doing it badly for
longer.

--
Duncan Snowden.

[jgharston]

Chris Young wrote:
> > [2] "Pis" just looked wrong.
> Surely it should be nPI (where PI should be a PI symbol, but I'm

WOG says that "Raspberry Pi" is an adjective, not a noun, so it's
a "Raspberry Pi system" or a "Raspberry Pi development system" or
a "Raspberry Pi computer".

JGH

[rogerjowett]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4Xoz75yHI

please help persuade lcd to add hmpr bit 5&6 support for mode 3
interlaced sam coupe animations

[BloodBaz]

I thought the legal team insisted on it but the developers shunned using it as an adjective on account of what normal people, including themselves call it on a day-to-day basis.

[Matthew Westcott]

That's how I remember it, yep. As soon as the 'trademark rules' page
went up, there was a brief widespread cry of "um, what?" followed by
Eben and Liz agreeing that it was a bit silly, and taking that rule out.

I don't have the dates to hand, but it may well have been true at the
time jgharston made that post...

[sam coupe]

has fuse fixed the +d emulation yet? snapper disc from velesoft ought ot have been able to run 48k SNApshots at 6mhz using external sam 1-4mb ram above 32768 code runs 6mhz without using line itnerrupts to turn screen on/off border port screen off bit set and just use vmpr to alter mode from 1 to any of the other 3 might work no?

[sam coupe]