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You can remember Raspberry Pi, PC in emerging markets, which they hoped to sell for $ 25. When we wrote earlier this year, there wasn't a lot of demonstration: a few stills and video from the PCB founder David Braben, describing his plan for this device. But today we have a demo that captures the imagination and idiot proof device has legs: they got his start Quake III.
Not that it is some great achievement for the launch of the game, released in the last millennium, but it really is doing very well. The device uses 700 Mhz ARM processor and 128 MB of RAM allowed here, and there are no storage device, it runs OS (Debian CLI) and the game off the SD card.
Check out the video:
They could hit above, but wanted to show that 1920 × 1080 with 4xAA became possible. Naturally you could reduce this quite a bit and Max from the refresh frequency for your monitor; Q3A not exactly the most graphically rich game on the market.
The game not being a role model; in fact they are an open source version for Debian build. They plan on several network together and soon play deathmatch.
Now, isn't that the point of this now will have the opportunity to hone their skills FPSing disadvantaged children in Kazakhstan. It is rather proof of concept to show that (relatively) modern piece of software can be adapted for equipment they've put together: raspberry Pi really is completely on the computer. And while Micro ATX boards and systems out there (very useful of them actually), they don't come anywhere near the mark of $ 25. You still need to LCD, keyboard, SD card or USB drive and so on, but Fund FE Raspberry decline is all about the barrier and provide everything you need in the main computer for a low price as soon as possible.
Keep up with the project. They've still got a lot to be done before they make it a viable product, but things seemed to be moving fast.
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