Plans for gaming?

[JessicaAlba]

Hi guys, first off just wanna say I'm extremely excited for this project's completion and it looks like everything is going well with the funds reached 1600%+ of the original goal.

So I just saw this subforum and wanted to ask if any plans were in the works of building/coding a dedicated emulation software for the Pine A64+. I noticed there are no stretch goals for this KS campaign but I think that would be a pretty sweet one if it's not already been planned. My knowledge regards to coding is basically non-existent so even if there were tutorials on how to get started in this regard that would be great.

Also would something like this be possible to do on the preinstalled Android OS or would I have to use Linux?

Thank you for your time!

[rogerba]

Hey JessicaAlba,

I would like to start off by saying, NICE NAME! But to address your question, even though I'm not super well versed in the art that is coding these types of thing, that, from what I've read, the Android OS isn't really all that great when it comes to Emulation Station. I read that Linux is much better for it. Why? I have no idea. If there was an announcement, maybe, to the almost 13,000 backers, we could get even more information or even an alpha or beta of the possible program! I would volunteer if I wasn't still in school and had much more time to dedicate to this, but alas I have 1 1/2 more years before that will come true. Here's to hoping for that! As for now I say sit tight and hopefully we'll hear something soon!

Regargs,
rogersba

[JessicaAlba]

Haha thanks Roger! and thanks for the reply. I also assumed as much as Linux would probably be more open and accessible to creating programs for, in addition to the fact that it has been around for longer and is favoured by coders. I do certainly hope some more information is provided on how to help beginners start their adventures with this great hardware, especially due to the fact that they have so far exceeded their goals! Fingers crossed!

[KryPtAlIvIaN]

I'm hoping to get Emulation Station running on top of Ubuntu when I get my board. I'll provide an image once I get everything working correctly.

[ML-Anderal]

Hi guys, first off just wanna say I'm extremely excited for this project's completion and it looks like everything is going well with the funds reached 1600%+ of the original goal.

So I just saw this subforum and wanted to ask if any plans were in the works of building/coding a dedicated emulation software for the Pine A64+. I noticed there are no stretch goals for this KS campaign but I think that would be a pretty sweet one if it's not already been planned. My knowledge regards to coding is basically non-existent so even if there were tutorials on how to get started in this regard that would be great.

Also would something like this be possible to do on the preinstalled Android OS or would I have to use Linux?

Thank you for your time!

Anyone looking to game my question would be to you what kind of gamer are you? I ask this because only some games will run on this system. I will be brutely pushing my first board I get in February to the limit to find out what they can run gaming wise.

I would say anything Android Play Store based should be fine and you can run.... so if your looking for a FSP look into Modern Combat 5 and try that out. If you are looking for TCG try Hearthstone. If you are looking for old games you can download emulators on Play store which gives you all the old pokemon, Mario, Zelda etc... games and they should play just fine if you have a decent emulator. 

If you are looking for hardcore gaming I will tell you now it will not work on this system. You cannot play Fallout 4, Battlefront 2 or any other new game on this device. It doesnt have the graphic capacity and is running on an OpenGL based system.

Because its OpenGL though you can get games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends and other such games to work... or atleast you should be able to.

Like I said I will test this to the max on my first board with both Linux and Android. Most likely the Android based system will only run whats in the app store but you can get minecraft, to decent RPG's and MMO's and MOBA's in the app store now and they all have really decent graphics but if you are looking for a specific game for PC I would say plan on learning a bit about Linux and Wine which is a emulator software for Linux.

[o9guy]

Linux gaming is very appealing especially with x64, 4 cores, and 2GB of RAM.  Unfortunately, the SOC maker, Allwinner, hasn't released any information to the open source community for accelerated graphics.  This means while it will boot and have a desktop, 3D graphics and video acceleration needed for video playback aren't going to be available.  The Linux-Suni folks are hard at work trying to make an open source solution but Allwinner isn't helping.  I hope this kickstarter, and perhaps some bad press on Allwinner, will make them reconsider their position.    Until Allwinner changes their mind, this board will be most useable to end-users in Android and not linux.

[taros]

Linux gaming is very appealing especially with x64, 4 cores, and 2GB of RAM.  Unfortunately, the SOC maker, Allwinner, hasn't released any information to the open source community for accelerated graphics.

You are banging on the wrong door. The GPU maker is ARM Holdings, not Allwinner. 
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)