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Raspberry Pi Support Has Landed In SDL2

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Good news if you are a Raspberry Pi fan as SDL2 now supports it, which does mean technically in future more games could work on it.

Features
  • Works without X11
  • Hardware accelerated OpenGL ES 2.x
  • Sound via ALSA
  • Input (mouse/keyboard/joystick) via EVDEV
  • Hotplugging of input devices via UDEV


I have been thinking about picking one of these up, but with the SteamOS and SteamBox's coming that could make a pretty decent media box on its own.

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6 comments

L4Linux Sep 30, 2013
Raspberry + Openelec makes the best media center.
n30p1r4t3 Sep 30, 2013
I don't really see the benefit of this given the low spec of the Pi (don't get me wrong it's great). Unless this applies to all ARM processors, I don't expect much to change.
Mike Frett Sep 30, 2013
Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3I don't really see the benefit of this give the low spec of the Pi (don't get me wrong it's great). Unless this applies to all ARM processors, I don't expect much to change.

Most people use it to tinker, like building Robots and such. Some use it as a Media Center and others play Quake 3. But yeah, I wouldn't expect it to run Serious Sam 3 :P
n30p1r4t3 Sep 30, 2013
Quoting: Quote from Mike Frett
Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3I don't really see the benefit of this give the low spec of the Pi (don't get me wrong it's great). Unless this applies to all ARM processors, I don't expect much to change.

Most people use it to tinker, like building Robots and such. Some use it as a Media Center and others play Quake 3. But yeah, I wouldn't expect it to run Serious Sam 3 :P

Yeah and I have one to do just that; tinker. But gaming? Doesn't make much sense.
Anonymous Oct 1, 2013
Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3
Quoting: Quote from Mike Frett
Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3I don't really see the benefit of this give the low spec of the Pi (don't get me wrong it's great). Unless this applies to all ARM processors, I don't expect much to change.

Most people use it to tinker, like building Robots and such. Some use it as a Media Center and others play Quake 3. But yeah, I wouldn't expect it to run Serious Sam 3 :P

Yeah and I have one to do just that; tinker. But gaming? Doesn't make much sense.
gbudny Oct 1, 2013
Airline tycoon deluxe was ported to Raspberry Pi by Runesoft and they wanted make a ports of other games:

"Unlikely I think, it is not even ported to Linux so far.

But I could give Robin Hood and Northland a try."

There are other commercial games ported to Raspberry Pi:

http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects?page=2&category=games

Linux x86 as a platform for games had no future in 1994-1997, but now you can play in thousands of games. In my opinion, porting games to Raspberry Pi has more sense than porting commercial games to Linux PPC/Alpha/Sparc in the past.
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