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I was shocked to see Liero in the page's screenshots. So many memories.
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Yes, we are using a fork of OpenLiero: https://github.com/gcwnow/lieroOriginally Posted by curaga
In the future we'd like to port LieroLibre (does not require the dos EXE OpenLiero uses and fixes some sfx legalities), but we will need to solve some library dependencies first. With LieroLibre, we could preinstall the game on the system image.
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I have some questions for the devs...
Will be there a FULLY black version ? NONE of the sown pics or in video versions is fully black....the "rim" is white...
Will the buildin software include GCC,etc. dev tools or have we to use a desktop to do any compiling ?
Will it be included in the software .... M.A.M.E. ?
....with full support for all ROM supported by M.A.M.E. ?
TIA,
AJSB
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VGA was 320x200 (aka 13h, aka ModeY), 320x240 is so-called ModeX, its a hack and never seen a game using it.Strange, I'd bet back in those days VGA referred to 320x240, wheres SVGA referred to 640x480.
VGA was capable of 640x480 although only @ 16 colors and extremely slow.
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Only the two color versions presented in the KS video are currently available.
So you are asking whether it will be possible to compile natively on the device instead of resorting to cross-compilation from x86 Linux?
We have not thought of it. The device has no keyboard, so coding on it is a bit pointless. On the other hand, you could always plug it into the tv and connect a keyboard via usb-otg. Or you could just log into the device via SSH/Telnet and try to invoke the compiler. So perhaps this isn't such a stupid idea. We will think of it
The preinstalled software is limited only to fully libre software (both in code and data files), at the moment this includes: Worship Vector, Puzzletube, SameGoo, Freedoom, Heroes and Blockrage; and software we got full author permission to include: Sqrxz 3, Dink Smallwood.Will it be included in the software .... M.A.M.E. ?
....with full support for all ROM supported by M.A.M.E. ?
The topic of emulation was left to the 3rd party developers and homebrew hackers. Our project originates from one of such communities and we have already a lot of people porting emulators to GCW Zero (check the youtube videos), however I can not tell you how well will one of your emulated platforms be supported because this is not what I am responsible for.
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Thank you crazycheese and Bridgman.
I'm a bit confused now but it seems I was wrong somehow.
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why MIPS....
not compatible with arm :/
screen resolution is really bad, psp 9year ago was 480*272 ! (and 4.3")
but it's a great idea to release an "open source Game console" !
Last edited by mum1989; 01-13-2013 at 03:23 PM.
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I have the same question that most other people here have - why limit resolution to 320x240? 640x480 or 800x600 would be much better. Also, is there any USB port or bluetooth, so a keyboard, mouse or joystick might be used with the device? 256 MB RAM is also quite limiting, atleast 512 MB would be better.
Regarding the software, how many of the drivers are open source? Are you planning to use the recently announced etnaviv open source driver, or a proprietary driver for the Vivante GPU?
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Some anwers on thier website :
Why did you choose a 3.5″ LCD over 5″ LCD any why a resolution of 320x240?
A bigger screen on the GCW Zero = less battery life / more work on the
CPU / less fps in emulation / blurry, rescaled graphics and a higher
manufacturing cost...
The reason behind choosing a 320x240 display isn't just monetary. Of
course, a larger display would have raised the final price of the
device, but it also has many other cons for a device aimed at retro
gaming. First of all, a higher resolution is not needed because most
retro games we support run at 320x240 at most. A larger screen would
require everything to be rescaled, so the CPU would have an extra load
of work and this would result in worse gaming performance and less
battery life.http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...CommOrClosSourWhy did you choose mini-USB over micro-USB?
Mini-USB allows you to plug extra peripherals much better than
micro-USB. With micro-USB, we were afraid that the port would not
survive a heavy weight attached to it.
GCW Zero was designed so you can attach extra peripherals such as game
controllers or keyboard/mouse combo of your choice and use them
together with HDMI/analog video out.
Here is an example in this link with a USB Bluetooth dongle:
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Is also answered:
Another thing that we are still working on is the OpenGL driver. Unfortunately, we will not be able to release this as open source. People who only want a fully open source system can simply leave out the OpenGL driver though; the 2D graphics system (Linux framebuffer) works fine without it.
The Wi-Fi module itself uses binary firmware, but the driver that runs on the MIPS CPU is open source. Every other driver we are using is fully open source and that source will be published on github as soon as the first unit’s ship.
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