Raspberry Pi 2 Port?

ChrisCwmbran

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Given the announcements of the newer quad core Raspberry Pi with increased RAM, and in the near future Windows 10, is there any chance of a Raspberry Pi2 based port of the game?

I think given the connections between David and the Pi this would be great.
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
ChrisCwmbran said:
Given the announcements of the newer quad core Raspberry Pi with increased RAM, and in the near future Windows 10, is there any chance of a Raspberry Pi2 based port of the game?

I think given the connections between David and the Pi this would be great.
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its unlikely that the Pi would have the graphical capabilities to run the game even on minimum settings.
 

Gorgonaut

Gorgonaut
I'm not sure the new Pi would handle the graphics. But how cool would it be to run ED on a small machine shaped like a Sidey?!
 

Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Since the Pi is running on Arm and not x86 it would be highly unlikely. Most Android and Apple smartphones run circles around the Pi.
 

Juniper

Juniper
That would be truly brilliant.

I've been struggling to build a computer for my wee girl, so she can play the copy of E: D I'd bought for her immediately after the KS (in the days when I had spare money), but I decided I could afford a couple of Raspberry Pi 2's which are now on order.

If she could play E: D on it... then wow. Dare to dream...
 

igor37

I
OP doesn't know 2 important details:

- The windows 10 for the Raspberry Pi 2 will be the downscaled developer/industry version without graphical user interface(no desktop, no windows, no mouse).
- The Raspberry Pi 2 is not for gaming, its hardware is barely enough for playing Full HD videos and the only usable operating system is Linux. Also, with a SoC you will never get enough power for a game like this.
 

Darkwolf

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igor37 said:
The Raspberry Pi 2 is not for gaming, its hardware is barely enough for playing Full HD videos and the only usable operating system is Linux. Also, with a SoC you will never get enough power for a game like this.
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The ARM SoC in the Pi is only able to play HD videos because it has a hardware decoder for that purpose. Otherwise, it's sorely lacking in I/O bandwidth. For one thing, everything is essentially attached via USB.

The SoC they're using was originally designed for use in TV set top boxes, for Pete's sake. It's not up to scratch for anything intensive, really.

NOTE - I'm certainly not saying the Pi is bad (I have two, and one of them is from the first run of Pi's), but it is NOT a full-scale desktop computer. It has limitations - LOTS of them. But it's incredibly cheap, and does a lot of stuff for its small form factor and cost.
 

Juniper

Juniper
Hmm. I've read quite a bit about the Windows for IoT since the launch & MS announcement, but nowhere does it say that it won't be graphical. Where have you heard that?

Obviously it couldn't run the full E: D client, but the Cobra engine is supposedly very scaleable and they're on with the Mac version (hardly a graphical powerhouse itself, relatively speaking) - so I don't see why it's infeasible.

I'm sure Frontier could say why it couldn't be done.
 

Rhywden

Rhywden
Juniper said:
Hmm. I've read quite a bit about the Windows for IoT since the launch & MS announcement, but nowhere does it say that it won't be graphical. Where have you heard that?

Obviously it couldn't run the full E: D client, but the Cobra engine is supposedly very scaleable and they're on with the Mac version (hardly a graphical powerhouse itself, relatively speaking) - so I don't see why it's infeasible.

I'm sure Frontier could say why it couldn't be done.
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Windows on the Raspberry will only be able to run applications written for the Windows Runtime, because those can be compiled to support ARM.
 

Juniper

Juniper
Rhywden said:
Windows on the Raspberry will only be able to run applications written for the Windows Runtime, because those can be compiled to support ARM.
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Right, so it's likely to have a Silverlight front end. Possibly touch based, who knows.

I've no idea how retargetable Cobra is - but it would seem strange to me to think that David Braben, one of the founders of the Pi project, wouldn't have considered ARM architectures when the work on the engine started.
 
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Cmdr_Arri

Cmdr_Arri
igor37 said:
OP doesn't know 2 important details:
Also, with a SoC you will never get enough power for a game like this.
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Never say never. The newer Intel SoC's can ran Elite. Barely, but it can run.

Some people don't realize that the Raspberry Pi 2's quad-core is only 900 Mhz. Computers haven't ran that slow since the mid-90's. The Raspberry Pi is for basic computing. Playing games is complex computing.
 
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