Raspberry Pi

[bbond007]

Hi Guys,
Is there any particular Raspberry Pi to get specifically for Amiga games,
or is it a matter of just getting the one with the fastest possible CPU?

What performance can be expected from them in terms of Amiga game
playability (with a genuine Kickstart file) ?
Is it realistic to emulate a CD32 good enough to play it's games?
Cheers, Art.

Raspberry pi is horribly underpowered for Amiga emulation. I found that it struggled to emulate 8 bit systems. A lot of the emulators are based on older versions with less accurate sound and such to deal with the slower CPU

I would suggest OUYA its much more capable for emulation. Every emulator I have tried so far from the market are spot-on, and seem full speed with good sound. There are no Amiga emulators in the market but I can try and side load one from my S3. I'm sure there will be an official one sooner than later...

Also, don't believe the negative hype about the controller, its not bad at all. People make it sound like as something that came from dealextreme.

[bbond007]

OUYA? huh?
That one slipped below my radar.
Not bad.
Nice processor. Could use more memory and expansion.
Has anyone tried to run an alternate Linux OS on it?

I agree, it should have more flash, or better yet, an SD card slot. In addition, more than one (regular sized) USB would have been appreciated.

The I connected a powered usb hub to mine to connect both a usb thumb drive and wireless kb. There is that.

Also. The price for an additional controller is $50 usd, which is too much.  It's nice enough, but without vibration or recharge features, that really seems like too much. You probably don't want to chance getting a used controller as you'll probably get one of the kickstarters which were the ones people were complaining about.

I read something about it being able to use ps3 controllers but I think support for that may be game specific.

[bbond007]

Also, I'm curious, how well can a Pi handle XBMC?

The RPi will run XBMC, although the default UI is kind of sluggish just because of all the effects however, The video playback is top notch quality. I understand that you have pick a more basic scheme which is supposed to improve the experience.

I have XBMC loaded on the OUYA as well and have not done much video playing on it to compare the video quality, but the UI responsiveness is night and day different on the two devices.

[bbond007]

Here is a graph of Ouya performance vs. Nexus 7 vs Galaxy S4:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/ouya-hardware-impressions-a-k-a-indie-game-the-console/

If someone has a Ouya vs. Raspberry Pi chart I would like to see it.

The OUYA is substantially faster than my US S3, however the international galaxy S3 is more powerful than the one for the USA market.

I think performance wise I read that the RPi is about the same as the original Xbox. I'm guessing OUYA is like 50% of a 360 or PS3

[bbond007]

Isn't there more than one version of the S4?
Which is the graph comparing?

yeah, there is the USA international which again is half the number of faster cores....

[bbond007]

No way!

The only time it can't play 1080p is the some cases when then audio is DTS multi-channel and you are trying to decode it to stereo. You can compensate for that by overclocking. Obviously this is not an issue if you use a hifi that decodes DTS/AC3...

most of the time playing video uses like under 10% CPU

[bbond007]

Is Ouya running Jelly Bean?

4.1.2 whatever name that is