Raspberry Pi 2 Port?

[igor37]

Because it's David Braben's game, and he decides what the developers he employs work on.

Indeed, but his success didn't come because of bad decisions. Freedom to decide everything doesn't mean you can do everything.
Downscaling and porting a modern game for the Pi 2 is like porting GTA IV to the Gameboy Color. You can do it, but it's unnecessary and a good way to lose money.

 

[EdzUp]

Raspberry Pi 2 Elite Dangerous?

With the Raspberry Pi 2 being able to run Windows 10 and that Dave is on the Pi team, will there be a Raspberry Pi version of Elite Dangerous?

Imagine it on a £35 computer

 

[the100thmonkey]

In ten years, maybe, yes!

 

[elaverick]

It's Windows 10 for IoT, it doesn't have a desktop. It's not meant to be run in anything other than a headless or limited output capacity, so don't expect a port of anything major for it.

 

[Skip Intro]

There's an ongoing thread for this, please merge!

 

[Rhywden]

It's Windows 10 for IoT, it doesn't have a desktop. It's not meant to be run in anything other than a headless or limited output capacity, so don't expect a port of anything major for it.

It does have a desktop. But you can only run Windows Universal Apps on it.

 

[FooFighter007]

[h=2]...you might try OOlite as a clone

Experimental Building of Oolite source on Raspberry Pi
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23423
[/h]

 

[Zieman]

About as cool as running Quake on an oscilloscope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU

That is very cool, but just in case anyone is confused, that is Quake being displayed on an oscilloscope. There's still a computer rendering it.

And no, ED will not be running on a Pi.

If E: D ever did (even with oscillocopesque wireframe graphics), toaster(s) would be the preferred control method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI

 

[AV2012]

The PI has a decent amount of Graphical Grunt if you know how to access it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMbEsgBHW9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82PHzktgSNA

Nearly 5 million of them have been sold, so it's not exactly an insignificant user base. Who knows what will happen?

 

[WO-One]

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.

Android and Apple phones run using ARM chips not x86.

 

[Geers]

Sure you can have an Elite port.

The original Elite.

 

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[Matt Hawkins]

Computers haven't ran that slow since the mid-90's.

That's not strictly true. There are millions of computers running slower than that on sale today.

 

[DoneWithFD]

The game is coming to the Pi right after the Texas Instruments TI-60 port.

 

[Matt Hawkins]

There is a difference between expecting to run the current PC-only x86 game on a Pi and expecting a version created for the Pi to run. Minecraft for the Pi isn't a straight copy of the PC version because that clearly wouldn't work. They created a version for the target hardware/OS. Writing a version for the Pi would no more difficult than writing a version for other quirky hardware like a Mac.

Of course the Pi can't run the current version of Elite. It's stupid to imply anyone thinks it could.

It would be entirely possible to create a version of ED for the Pi 2 (or Android or any other OS). It would be no more unlikely than running GTA on a phone. It simply comes down to the resources and inclination to do it. Nothing to do with it being impossible.

The *only* sensible debate is the level of functionality and graphics detail that would be possible given the platforms capability.

 

[Rubbernuke]

The game is coming to the Pi right after the Texas Instruments TI-60 port.

Careful what you wish for, Portal was ported to that calculator so you never know....

Also, to scratch that itch you could try the Elite 2 port for the Pi from way back.

 

[Zenith]

It will be possible to run ED on an RPi2.
Simply use it as a KVM for another machine on your network and output to TV. There you go, ED, played on an RPi2.

Oh who am I kidding, you'd be playing it THROUGH the RPi2, not ON it.

 

[Juniper]

There is a difference between expecting to run the current PC-only x86 game on a Pi and expecting a version created for the Pi to run. Minecraft for the Pi isn't a straight copy of the PC version because that clearly wouldn't work. They created a version for the target hardware/OS. Writing a version for the Pi would no more difficult than writing a version for other quirky hardware like a Mac.

Of course the Pi can't run the current version of Elite. It's stupid to imply anyone thinks it could.

It would be entirely possible to create a version of ED for the Pi 2 (or Android or any other OS). It would be no more unlikely than running GTA on a phone. It simply comes down to the resources and inclination to do it. Nothing to do with it being impossible.

The *only* sensible debate is the level of functionality and graphics detail that would be possible given the platforms capability.

Exactly. +1

Some people here just aren't listening though - or simply don't have the imagination to consider that.

 

[igor37]

Some people here just aren't listening though - or simply don't have the imagination to consider that.

It's not about imagination but the amount of effort needed to do such a port. Also why would you port an unfinished game?

 

[Rhywden]

Exactly. +1

Some people here just aren't listening though - or simply don't have the imagination to consider that.

You have no idea what it means to go from a x86 instruction set to the ARM instruction set, don't you?

Hint: It's not simply a flag in the compiler.