A First Look at the Smach Zero SteamOS Console

[ekianjo]

More details and pictures here on BoilingSteam:

http://boilingsteam.com/a-first-look-at-the-smach-zero-steamos-portable-console/

It was the project formely known as "SteamBoy".

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

I like.

 

[ekianjo]

I hope the Pyra can become a second "steam console" with another CPU board in the future, too

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Yep!  Pyra's changeable SoC board design is brilliant and will be very handy.

 

[edgex004]

Especially since AMD offered to help source a board!

 

[TrashyMG]

Especially since AMD offered to help source a board!

source?

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Especially since AMD offered to help source a board!

Really?  Where?  Did I miss that post/thread?

 

[edgex004]

I will look. Was an off hand comment from ED that he had spoken with a rep from AMD about sourcing the next cpu from them. I'll have to search his post history.

 

[ekianjo]

Amd and Intel are the only two options out there for x86 SoC anyway, so it would not be very surprising. 

 

[levi]

How are you meant to pronounce 'smach'.  From an english mouth, it either comes out as 'smatch' or 'smash', or possibly 'smack'.

 

[WizardStan]

sm-aw-k?

Like "mach" (the speed of sound) with an s.

 

[levi]

Ah, more like 'sm-ar-k' in my tongue, I suspect.  Long A.

 

[Nintendo]

Offtopic: What's up with the hostile comments in ekianjo site?


Ontopic: Wish it had an 8" screen (16:10) with 1080p res.

 

[ekianjo]

Offtopic: What's up with the hostile comments in ekianjo site?

Angry GNU/Linux folks who can't bother checking google for sources, and who would prefer to left in their dumb ignorance.  

Ontopic: Wish it had an 8" screen (16:10) with 1080p res.

Wouldn't that be a little big ? 

 

[Nintendo]

I like it big.


By the way...In the final product...is the bottom left going to have d-pad-like buttons or an analogue stick? See below.

 

[ekianjo]

..is the bottom left going to have d-pad-like buttons or an analogue stick? See below.

In the recent video from June 18th, it was NOT an analog pad. Not sure about the final version though.  

 

[Ziz]

Offtopic: What's up with the hostile comments in ekianjo site?

Angry GNU/Linux folks who can't bother checking google for sources, and who would prefer to left in their dumb ignorance.

Okay and you have to mention GNU/Linux because? Your blog is about Steam on Linux, so why highlight this?

 

[fusion_power]

Wow, that's quite a longboard. Remembers me onto the old Atari Lynx-Brick.

Well, it also has an 5" screen, I wonder if they also use an rotator chip or have found an real landscape screen? 

 

[Ziz]

 

Wow, that's quite a longboard. Remembers me onto the old Atari Lynx-Brick.


Well, it also has an 5" screen, I wonder if they also use an rotator chip or have found an real landscape screen?

I would guess the Radeon GPU will do the rotation.

Keep in mind, the Pyra wants to disable the GPU at all if not needed. I doubt this game console wants to archive this goal neither with Linux nor with Windows running on it.

 

[Nintendo]

Day 1 purchase for me :wub: