[LeoD]

After letting it rot on my desk for almost a month, I've finally found time to put everything together and boot my Pi for the first time. Nice device. It will replace my NSLU2 home music server which is no longer able to update Debian Wheezy, most likely due to memory constraints (32MiB). I've read somewhere that the Pi can run EDuke32. I'll try that ASAP.

[Radar]

Amazing. Please do tell about your experiences with it as time passes. I've considered getting it myself, considering the price is nearly a steal.

[Spirrwell]

Aw, I've been wanting to get one of those. Funny how I found out about it, I was searching on Google for something related to yogurt. Which model of the Raspberry Pi do you have?

[ReaperMan]

I want raspberry pie

[LeoD]

Spirrwell, on 25 January 2013 - 08:17 PM, said:

Which model of the Raspberry Pi do you have?

Model B, 512MiB

EDuke32 compiles right away using make NOASM=1, but the performance is not what I expected. My old 133Mhz 486 was way faster when running the DOS executable. No mouse input. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or it's just the toll of the advanced capabilities of EDuke32. OpenGL fails, too. No big surprise, but I don't quite understand the error message since libGL.so.1 exists (maybe not at the expected place):

Initializing SDL system interface (compiled against SDL version 1.2.15, found version 1.2.15)
Failed loading "libGL.so.1"
Failed loading OpenGL driver. GL modes will be unavailable.
Using "fbcon" video driver

However, as my monitor has no HDMI input, the usual access will be via ssh anyway, and I have no plans to make this my gaming device.

[Spirrwell]

Hm, have you tried other games? I've seen people play Quake III Arena just fine, and on the Raspberry Pi website they have a picture of it running OpenArena which is free if you don't have Q3A. I mean the few "somewhat" heavy FPS games that come to my head when talking about Linux are OpenArena, Alien Arena, Nexuiz, Xonotic, and Red Eclipse. As for that libGL problem, you're probably missing a library of sorts. I have no idea how people remember the names for them, so somebody else would have to help you there. You should be able to run plain eduke32 without the HRP with no problem. At least I would think so.

[Plagman]

Well, there's not optimized ASM for ARM and usually the 2D drivers are lacking on these platforms, so software mode is going to need a bulkier CPU than that's in the Pi to run at proper speed. There isn't GLES support in EDuke32 that can take advantage of the graphics processor in the Pi yet.

[LeoD]

Plagman, on 28 January 2013 - 01:55 PM, said:

There isn't GLES support in EDuke32 that can take advantage of the graphics processor in the Pi yet.

No real news. Everything just works as expected. After two weeks uptime I rebooted due to a firmware update and plugged it into my TV again. OpenArena runs quite OK with default settings, but the keyboard input doesn't work, whereas EDuke32 has no mouse input
EDuke32 crashed with a buffer overflow message when I put a long version string into rev.h, but I can't reproduce it ATM. As soon as I finally decide to get a monitor with HDMI input I might play around some more with fullscreen applications.

[Plagman]

I think one might be able to use Regal to run EDuke32 as-is on ES2 platforms, but I have yet to confirm that. It would probably still need some work.

[Person of Color]

My buddy bought one of these. It's pretty useless. Underpowered and uninspiring. It's sitting in a desk now.

[Spirrwell]

486DX2, on 20 February 2013 - 07:27 AM, said:

My buddy bought one of these. It's pretty useless. Underpowered and uninspiring. It's sitting in a desk now.

Well, I'll take it. I could build a Linux Kiosk with of those and technically make it into my own game system. Oh boy that would be fun! Ah, I'm such a geek.

[MetroidJunkie]

On the topic, does an ARMHF deb build of eDuke32 still exist somewhere? All I can find is an ARMEL build which doesn't work on ARMHF hardware. This isn't for Raspberry Pi but, rather, my Android Tablet that happens to have ARMHF Debian on it. The main reason I want it is for Mapster32 since, while I can run Build on its Dosbox, I can't use the absolute mouse without it bugging out which Debian can do so it would be a lot easier to edit levels without having to drag the cursor around like a touchpad.

[Hendricks266]

You'll have to build from source.

[LeoD]

MetroidJunkie, on 12 June 2015 - 09:56 AM, said:

On the topic, does an ARMHF deb build of eDuke32 still exist somewhere?

Yes. You can try a Raspbian(=almost Debian armhf) build from here.

[Tea Monster]

They exist for tinkerers, students, coders and project-builders. They aren't for any kind of high-performance gaming or application use.

[Balls of Steel Forever]

Tea Monster, on 17 June 2015 - 08:49 AM, said:

They exist for tinkerers, students, coders and project-builders. They aren't for any kind of high-performance gaming or application use.

Oh yeah? Raspberry pi Supercomputer Although you may need alot more then used in that article, it's possible.

[Radar]

Some people have done impressive things with them. I know a guy who actually builds his own Raspberry Pi home automation equipment. There's also that one guy who has a highly profitable bitcoin mining system made out of a ton of Pis.

There will always be anomalies, but for the most part, I believe the Raspberry Pi has no serious industrial or professional application.