Oh one other thing

720p 5" LCD with resistive touchscreen

Why in the fsck doesn't this have a IPS display? I realize it would increase power output but theres no way you could play on this thing in the car or anywhere outdoors without IPS brightness.

This is what I envision all over again.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSince when do geeks care about things like practicality when you have something this cool?

I think it starts to get sticky when you require your gamers to also be geeks.

Quoting: TrashyMG

Quoting: ElectricPrismSo a "gaming device" that showcases LibreOffice, Terminal and GIMP - someone needs to talk to their marketing person about proper marketing.

So about ~$700 for a device which probably plays little more than NES, SNES, N64, PSX and maybe one or two GameCube roms.

The practicality and logic of creating this device completely baffles me.

Even the prior Pandora could handle all of those emulators minus gamecube. The Pyra will be much more capable. Honestly The Pyra and prior Pandora is not really marketed period, nor is it expected to be massively profitable, it is just what it is, built on community interest in a device that is a handheld computer that just happens to have gaming controls. Some see the merit in the unique features it has, most see it as a joke, most of us don't care what the masses think.

Thank you for adding to my understanding as to what the creators were thinking when they made this. It's a fascinating device that's for sure, and I'm sure the passion of the creators persuring it's maximum utility will give birth to some really fascinating game ports as @TrashyMG pointed out suchas StarCraft, Diablo and Diablo II ARM.

Quoting: kinguIf you advertise games console emulation by way of showing off commercial games, while (done right) legal, it will make payment processors regard it as a potentially infringing device. There is obviously an illegal way to do it, and the distinction between bundling every popular console game under the sun, and advertising the ability to play them as legal copies, isn't made.

While I agree advertising could be done, and better. Emulation alone would also be selling it short, the Pandora was an emulation device, wanting to be a laptop. The Pyra meets the bar on the power and screen real-estate required for regular desktop use.

Even before the introduction of keyboards, for the devices the community made their own, there were games aplenty. Homebrew galore, capturing the feeling of the Amiga days. There is a lot of ingenuity in getting things to run, and the types of games that do, ties in nicely with being a handheld. New games are largely best enjoyed mouse and keyboard, on hardware more powerful than a similarly modern handheld could ever be, regardless of architecture.

So if you go one step beyond laptop, and add cellular services, its all of a sudden the only device needed for
listening to music, browsing the web, phoning, sending email, playing games, GPS-ing etc.

It cant, (for reasons physics don't allow) be a good camera, so the community said no to that. It is however a good asset for a real camera, having the two SD-card slots in the front.

I regard typing on my (s3) Android device a non-starter, and dragging around a laptop that I need a table or in the very least to sit down to use, just makes it the wrong tool for a job that I want to get done, there and then.

Sure my Thinkpad has Libreboot and my phone has Replicant, because I care about secure hardware, and am willing to put a lot of effort in it. Doesn't mean I want to.
In acquiring mobile hardware that isn't known to be bad alone, that narrows it down really fast, there are those options, the novena laptop, the GTA04 and neo900 cellphone.

The Pyra does away with a lot of manual and technically advanced set-up and maintenance. I know how to do it, its fun in its own right, but when you want to get things done, its a hassle. Besides, I no longer want to support the key-boardless spyware-laden broken hardware that is glued together and not repairable, made to break and extending humanity only as far as to prevent the people who made it from killing themselves in desperation. That is sick.
I know a lot of things are like that, which I think is more of a bad thing, not something to blame the times we are in for.

The Pyra comes ready to use, is fabricated and designed in Germany, with a case from Greece, its safe, stays updated, can be upgraded, doesn't track the user, and it has a real OS. And while the small team is putting in insane hours, they have a sense of honour in what they do, and how they do it.

Vastly different, in a world where most mobile things are hostile towards user and environment alike. :D

I think it would be safe to advertise the device using pictures of open source games like Red Eclipse, SuperTuxKart, WarSow and even fan made ROMS for the SNES that showcase SNES like graphics.

Not to mention showcasing PC games suchas on Steam shouldn't create any friction between any legitimate Gaming Device Manufacturer as PC manufactures have no connection to lock-in contracts with game developers.

The Niche market is fascinating. For me personally I would begin to show interest had the device been physically larger, but then again I don't expect to be the demographic.

To me it makes more sense to buy a high end Tablet, install Ubuntu Touch and get a Bluetooth Keyboard with trackpad and or mouse. And even connect a Bluetooth Controller suchas the PS3 or PS4 controller without any addition dongles.

I praise the modular design, and if they can significantly improve the CPU power or display size I may show interest, I know I'm not the demographic and I root them on, so good luck too bad it's not made for me.

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So a "gaming device" that showcases LibreOffice, Terminal and GIMP - someone needs to talk to their marketing person about proper marketing.

So about ~$700 for a device which probably plays little more than NES, SNES, N64, PSX and maybe one or two GameCube roms.

The practicality and logic of creating this device completely baffles me.

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Great maybe this will help me fix 2 Steam Controllers not working as Xbox Controller 1 and Xbox Controller 2 in Road Redemption, and other multiplayer games -____-.

At least the kids on Counter Strike were impressed I was on a Steam Machine, I didn't know your profile said that stuff.

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Fsck me. After 12 hour coding marathon at work and 4 hours sleep, this is beautiful and horribly tempting at the same time.

No Terraria no, I dont want to spend another 1000 hours on you! Too good, nom.

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I hope their new Serious Sam 4 feels retro, they had a good feel with 3, but so far I liked the grit of SS1 the best imo.

The charm of a small game dev company just going crazy and taking a chance, not that I want new chances I just hope they apply the Serious Sam fomula to SS4 and it turns out nice.

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Quoting: wolfyrionA friend of mine called me that he had a logitech PS3 Wheel to give me for Free because he had no use for it.
...

Well with my friend we have a small friendly fight Windows Vs Linux every time we meet...
Anyway I invited him to come to my house so we can test the Wheel...

At the start he was teasing me
...
Anyway I pluged in the Wheel ...and launched the game

(He got confused and said , ehh ... arent you going to install any drivers ??? how the heck is going to work???)

.. everything was working perfectly in the game , even the wheel was vibrating,shaking, etc and without any configuration...

You had to see his face... :woot:

That Linux Boner you get when things work better than Windows or OSX.

✓ Oh shit, my GUI is locked up, no prob switching to TTY 3.

✓ Not having fatty iTunes gobble up 70% of the Ram and CPU.

✓ Tabs on File Manager

✓ $400 Free Office Suite that kills Microsoft Office - WPS.com (Only free on Linux)

✓ No glass ceiling to your IT skills, the more CLI you know the more limitless control you have on your OS.

✓ SSH connect to other Linux PCs on the LAN for SCP, Rsync, to issue installing updates, power on or off the machine remotely, etc..

✓ Get a New Motherboard, CPU, RAM -- looks like you're going to need to reinstall the Operating System! On Windows you get a BSOD, on Linux the OS boots up switching from LGA 1366 i7 940 to LGA 1151 i7 6700k. No hickups.

✓ That moment when you realize that the US government and Microsoft can come snoop in your files for no reason without consent or a warrant.

✓ Encrypted Filesystems, Encrypted .IMG of Filesystems on Encrypted Filesystems if you want that sorta thing.

✓ My games from 16 years ago will work 16 years later on Linux with minimal hackish fixes usually.

✓ Windows Games on Linux

✓ Better CPU and RAM performance

And in the Microsoft Operating System Camp this is pretty much it

✓ Works better with Specific Software, Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD, 3DStudioMax, etc..

✓ When shit hasn't frozen up it usually doesn't inhibit your professional workflow and you can make $$$ not worrying about the OS needing attention

✓ When it works it works okay, when it breaks it breaks horribly and is usually unfixable without reinstalling Windows. (But hey, more License $$$$ to Microsoft, that's good for them.)

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Quoting: godlike

Quoting: neowiz73thank goodness for Android/Google pushing Vulkan because this will help the overall adoption of Vulkan into the mainstream.
can't wait to see ARK get a Vulkan update :D although it won't be anytime soon it would seem.

None should thank google for Vulkan. It's not a secret that they endorsed Vulkan quite late and that's because:
1. They realized that the alternative will cost them a few billions (in patents).
2. The alternative will cost in time (sort out patents).
3. The got pushed back by most GPU vendors.

I know what you're saying but you lost me at billions...

View video on youtube.com

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Thanks for turning me on to Voxels, it will make a nice addition to my Linux Install guide for my noob army looking to quickly learn about stuff that interests them on X.

Anyone remember what a hit Blockscape was? Oh wait that didn't happen the devs fled for the mountains, lol... In anycase its nice to have Minetest and Voxel, I wonder how close their codebase is in porting updates since it is a fork.

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