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by Davespice
Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:10 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds - The New Generation
Replies: 4
Views: 3509

Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds - The New Generation

Hey folks, just wanted to tell you about this great show. Info here . My wife bought tickets for it at the 02 arena in London UK and gave them to me for my Birthday in 2011, so I was waiting for over a year! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61A5A3ycdRL._SL500_AA280_.jpg I bought the album and o...
by Davespice
Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:35 pm
Forum: Porting to other platforms
Topic: Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...
Replies: 25
Views: 52965

Re: Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...

submersible wrote:
Tasty. Davespice - have you attempted a build on raspbian yet?
I have. Although spidermonkey is preventing me from making any progress.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 3&p=231959

If you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
by Davespice
Mon Dec 17, 2012 5:13 pm
Forum: Porting to other platforms
Topic: Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...
Replies: 25
Views: 52965

Re: Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...

This may be interesting to some of you.
by Davespice
Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:19 pm
Forum: Porting to other platforms
Topic: Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...
Replies: 25
Views: 52965

Re: Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...

Thanks for the encouragement folks. It seems that this is very much a pioneering exercise and I am making very slow progress. Spidermonkey (an Oolite dependency) is still the main sticking point as it appears that no one has actually attempted to build this on Arm before. I’m also trying to juggle m...
by Davespice
Wed Nov 21, 2012 2:33 pm
Forum: Porting to other platforms
Topic: Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...
Replies: 25
Views: 52965

Calling all Raspberry Pi owners...

Folks, I am currently in the process of evaluating how much work this port is going to be. I am having a few difficulties though and if anyone here who has a Pi could help it would be greatly appreciated. I have posted on the main Raspberry Pi forum here . Take a look and see what you think. It’s ba...
by Davespice
Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:23 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

Cheers!
by Davespice
Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:58 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

Commander McLane wrote:
Thus my question: wouldn't it make a lot more sense to contact one of the current developers?
*face-palm* :)
Yes it would, are you one? By any chance?
by Davespice
Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:29 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

Cool, that would certainly be helpful. I do have my own SVN if that helps. Anyway I have been in touch with Aegidian, but all I got was a "good luck but you're on your own" type response. Which I can't complain about. It might make things a little more difficult for me though, but we'll se...
by Davespice
Mon Nov 19, 2012 2:08 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

The number Raspberry Pi related puns are actually unbelievable. Raspberry Jam, Pi bake off all sorts :) The Pi is supposed to refer to Python because they did toy with the idea of making the Pi boot directly into Python (like the BBC Micro did with Basic). But then you have to write your own mouse d...
by Davespice
Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:36 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

Thanks for your reply Diziet Sma but I can’t help feeling that words are being put in my mouth. What I said was that I think this needs the support of the Oolite developers, which is not the same as saying that they must drop everything and do the work. That would be tremendously arrogant. Perhaps I...
by Davespice
Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:52 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

I'm going to leap into the fray with my first post to this forum! I've just received a new Raspberry Pi today and it's got 512Mb RAM. All the new Model B boards from 15th Oct 2012 have 512MB as standard. Hopefully that solves the memory issue! I certainly agree that getting it onto the R-Pi and int...
by Davespice
Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:48 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

Back to wireframe? Coloured / shaded polygons I meant (like Arc Elite). I’m not looking to damage the game, I’m just trying to think of ways that we could fit the game inside the limited memory footprint that the Raspberry Pi has :? The other option is to reduce the texture resolution maybe? I don’...
by Davespice
Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:10 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

It's just everyone keeps quoting triangulation as one of the main problems. Obviously RAM on the RPi is a big issue. Also having done a quick search, one of the major problems seems to be a rewrite of the vertex/fragment shader pipeline. Sorry I just assumed all the models would have loads of quads...
by Davespice
Mon Nov 12, 2012 4:03 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Future of Oolite what do you think?
Replies: 81
Views: 20329

Re: Future of Oolite what do you think?

I leave you with this thought. David created the raspberry PI to make access to computers affordable so there is a possibility of a second Renascence in programming. Give the children the toys and they WILL play. We have a game, but that's just there to get people interested. The REAL game is the s...
by Davespice
Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:15 pm
Forum: Porting to other platforms
Topic: For the raspberry
Replies: 13
Views: 29006

Re: For the raspberry

With regards to a pi port - i really think it would be great to get oolite running on the raspbian distro rather than fire up the old arc elite. I agree with xzanfr. Oolite would be ideal for Raspbian, as it is currently their recommended distribution. Running ARC Elite again would be fun for a nos...