What would you like to see?

[jonlad1]

Well, the main guy who wants to work on the 3D driver is waiting for a prototype of the unit (which doesn't exist yet), so no one is working on the driver right now, nothing will change at the moment.

Additionally, an upgraded version which might work out of the box on our system might be released early 2016, so we also have to wait for that.

No need to search for news on that - until the prototypes are being done and sent to developers, probably nothing will happen here.

Thanks for the update ED! Good news that someone is ready for smashing a driver out.

 

[Faust]

Fighting: Little Fighter 2(Freeware,

http://www.littlefighter.com/download_links_en.html) ?

My browser is blocking the download from the "official site" saying it contails malware or a virus, this is iceweasel on the devboard... I found another site that looked a little more trustworthy... tried it, at first it seemed to be crashing on loading a large art file, why would a simple game require such large bitmaps were I have to set my direct3d video memory size to 512MB... WineHQ mostly gave this a Garbage status, I tried their suggestions to get it to work... Ironically the game froze several times loading a freeze.dat file... Still having directsound issues on my wine setup... most likely not the game.  But I did finally get it working...



 

I'm really sorry for the trouble pal, it's such a great game in multiplayer, I wouldn't have asked you if I knew it. To do special moves you have to use the key to protect, choose a direction and hit the attack key, the power depends of the character. It's a really fun beat them all, and it would be so amazing on Pyra as you can setup the control.

There is even transformation:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYJqxtJgfM

Thanks again
 

 

[dflatline]

OMG you played Neverwinter Night, Dungeon Keeper 2, and Unreal Tournament!!! It run really well for 3D games without hardware acceleration! I'm so eager to have the Pyra! :lol:

Many thanks Trashy!

I've other games to try if you want to, I can give you a list. It's mainly games that running on Windows. Well, I don't think you bought all of them.

Fighting: Little Fighter 2 (Freeware on http://www.littlefighter.com/download_links_en.html) really fun and multiplayer.

RPG/ Hack&Slash: Dungeon Siege 1, great with 3D world, there isn't any other game like this one.

RPG/Adventure: Might And Magic VII, Outcast, Morrowind

Platform: Hunter Hunted

RPG: Lionheart, Arcanum, Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, 

Space Opera:  Freelancer,

RTS: Warlord Battlecry, Warwind, Red Alert 2, Black&White, Populous 3, Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40.000

FPS: Soldier Of Fortune, Serious Sam: the First Encounter

Racing: Re-volt
 

Good to see I'm not the only person in the world who liked War Wind.
Has anyone said Quake yet?

 

[ptitSeb]

Quake is already running fine on the Pandora.

 

[TrashyMG]

Quake is already running fine on the Pandora.

^ Quake 1-3 even...
 

 

[TrashyMG]

OMG you played Neverwinter Night, Dungeon Keeper 2, and Unreal Tournament!!! It run really well for 3D games without hardware acceleration! I'm so eager to have the Pyra! :lol:

Many thanks Trashy!

I've other games to try if you want to, I can give you a list. It's mainly games that running on Windows. Well, I don't think you bought all of them.

Fighting: Little Fighter 2 (Freeware on http://www.littlefighter.com/download_links_en.html) really fun and multiplayer.

RPG/ Hack&Slash: Dungeon Siege 1, great with 3D world, there isn't any other game like this one.

RPG/Adventure: Might And Magic VII, Outcast, Morrowind

Platform: Hunter Hunted

RPG: Lionheart, Arcanum, Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, 

Space Opera:  Freelancer,

RTS: Warlord Battlecry, Warwind, Red Alert 2, Black&White, Populous 3, Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40.000

FPS: Soldier Of Fortune, Serious Sam: the First Encounter

Racing: Re-volt
 

I have Dungeon Siege, Morrowind, Fallout 1,2 and Tactics, Black&White, Soldier of Fortune, Serious Sam and Revolt... 

Black and White I had trouble with a few months ago, but I'm on a new install of Exagear Desktop. Fallout Series I believe works well so I may make that part of a new video. The rest I'll try when my new HDMI recording device comes in. 

 

[ptitSeb]

The people of Serious Sam are going to launch the engine source code .

I am waiting for that!

 

[ptitSeb]

The people of Serious Sam are going to launch the engine source code .

I am waiting for that!

So you are the "coder" they was talking about on them Twitter account?

Ah No, they are waiting for someone?

 

[TheGeopard]

Maybe Android running with Games like Minecraft PE, Modern Combat 4 or Angry Birds would be cool!

 

[matzesu]

How about games whe allready know from Pandora, as Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem 3D, or the Jedi Knights Games?? 
something like Openmorrowind would be also great
and our fafered Emulators (N64, DS, PSX, NES SNES, GB GBC GBA, Master System Gamegear, Genesis(Megadrive) Dreamcast, Atari, Amiga C64 , Neo GEO, PSP, and so one..

i wants the Pyra to run all my things i know and like from Pandora, but better ...

 

[ptitSeb]

How about games whe allready know from Pandora, as Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem 3D, or the Jedi Knights Games?? 
something like Openmorrowind would be also great
and our fafered Emulators (N64, DS, PSX, NES SNES, GB GBC GBA, Master System Gamegear, Genesis(Megadrive) Dreamcast, Atari, Amiga C64 , Neo GEO, PSP, and so one..

i wants the Pyra to run all my things i know and like from Pandora, but better ...

Better wait for some 3D driver for those (execpt for most emu, only N64, Dreamcast and PSP needs 3D drivers in your list).

 

[matzesu]

I know the guy who makes the 3D Driver needs a real pyra to develop it, 
at the moment, i mostly play Gameboy Series (GBGBCGBA) and DS Games on Pandora, but i have prepared some Dreamcast Games i hope to Play somethimes on my Shiny New Pyra
and more frome these PC Ports i ditnt try on Pandora...

 

 

[asimov-solensan]

If you allow me to make a request I would like to see how runs commandos on the devboard, seems that there is a demo available.
http://games.softpedia.com/get/Games-Demo/Commandos--Behind-Enemy-Lines.shtml

It isn't more complex than diablo 2, I expect it to run pretty well.

Indeed exagear is very promising, if it can only run 2D games/applications it will be a nice addition, but if at some point (3D driver provided and everything) it's able to run more complex games, it can be the killer program of Pyra.

 

[TrashyMG]

If you allow me to make a request I would like to see how runs commandos on the devboard, seems that there is a demo available.
http://games.softpedia.com/get/Games-Demo/Commandos--Behind-Enemy-Lines.shtml

It isn't more complex than diablo 2, I expect it to run pretty well.

Indeed exagear is very promising, if it can only run 2D games/applications it will be a nice addition, but if at some point (3D driver provided and everything) it's able to run more complex games, it can be the killer program of Pyra.

Lunixbochs has already made his glshim working with Exagear, we just need a working 3D driver to take advantage it.

 

[comradekingu]

Since i dont believe in the whole convergence hype, where one device takes over for all else, i wondered how the pyra could fit into an already existing ecosystem of hardware.

 Being foss, that is naturally occuring, but what it features in addition to what a laptop has to offer is good gaming controls, an added use for when you are stationary.

What would be interesting is to have the gaming-controls on an external pc, but reserve the internal keyboard and screen for chat.

Especially with laptops, there is often just the one screen, and games are best served fullscreen, non-windowed. Which makes a offline game a little too stagnant for the current generation.

 

[WizardStan]

Any luck with Steam yet?  I'd like to see Half-Life, possibly HL2 attempted as well.  If possible, also Xash3D so we can see some comparative performance of exagear.

 

[TrashyMG]

Any luck with Steam yet?  I'd like to see Half-Life, possibly HL2 attempted as well.  If possible, also Xash3D so we can see some comparative performance of exagear.

Steam yeah a while ago I had a video posted, even tried streaming out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pPkpIDNnM 

Half-Life was a bit odd, looked like It may have played okay, but seemed glitchy. Half-Life 2 I haven't tried. Xash3D would be cool to try... I really wish 3D acceleration was working.
 

 

[pmprog]

Oooh, does this mean I might to get to play TIS-100 on the Pyra?! Cool

 

[Nardella]

Wait we might get steam on the Pyra?

 

[TrashyMG]

Wait we might get steam on the Pyra?

Yeah, but don't expect too much out of it... it requires slow x86 emulation. older games may be playable when 3D acceleration is working. Hard to say where the threshold of playability will be once that is working. It may be better to for some of these games to not have the overhead of running steam in the background.