Kickstarter

Creator SteveH 2 days ago

My guess is we'll be unwrapping these at Christmas

Creator Daniel Mackey 3 days ago

Matt, Getting TIME for an update LOL

Creator Matt Charlton 3 days ago

Was just stopping by to see what the latest was.....

Creator nickr 4 days ago

And quite poetically just 1 higher, in at number 10:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years..._100_Movie_Quotes

Creator Paradiso Shlee 4 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Creator Tim Barrington 6 days ago

Is Goldilocks any closer to finding a "just right" screen for the Maxi?

Creator Paradiso Shlee on May 14

I'm just a poor backer, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Creator Daniel Mackey on May 13

Just checking,
just checking ta see,
to see if there is an update from Pimoroni...

Creator Paradiso Shlee on May 13

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see

Creator Dan "DG" on May 13

Any update on the next update? :)

Creator Paradiso Shlee on May 12

I Am Jack's Medulla Oblongata

Creator Paradiso Shlee on May 10

I Am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise.

Creator Paradiso Shlee on May 9

I have tears of a lumberjack!

Creator Aguirrech on May 9

Thanks Thomas

Creator Thomas Rigby on May 9

Aguirrech, I believe it's been delayed slightly. While I can't speak for the Pimoroni guys, the last I heard I thought it was now expected in June or July.

Creator Aguirrech on May 5

Hi Pimoroni, previous updates you estimated the delivery date to end Mars. Is it ok?

Creator nickr on May 1

Guys come on. Don't do this radio silence thing again. It's better to explain what's going on in a few words than have us all hanging on a major update. ** Even if it is bad news **

Creator nickr on April 30

And then there was static...

https://vimeo.com/65165522

;-)

Creator Bob smith on April 28

Have the screens been ordered?

Creator Paradiso Shlee on April 26

I'll note you.

Creator nickr on April 24

*Peek*

Creator Paradiso Shlee on April 24

*Poke*

Creator Steve Baker on April 17

I thought other backers might be interested in Udoo, which should fit nicely inside the Picade and have enough power to run Mame pretty well too: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/435742530/udoo-android-linux-arduino-in-a-tiny-single-board

It's already funded, with many days left to go, so there could be some nice stretch goals too!

Creator Paradiso Shlee on April 16

is anybody using one of those Hardkernel Odroid boards? Id love for somebody to have some real experience before I throw $250 at them.

Creator Dan "DG" on April 11

Disregard my last question, i've just saw it answered in the faq. :) Though, some info on the power draw and the technical details involved in creating such a mod would be nice, when you have the time to write them down.

Creator Dan "DG" on April 10

Not sure if it has been asked before, but could the Raspberry Picade (small and big) be powered by batteries (laptop batteries or something else)? In theory, would this be difficult for someone to mod?

Creator loic on April 9

can you clarify how and when we will access blueprints. I would like to start a build of my own?

Creator nickr on April 7

You guys should see what's happening over at the Gamestick KS because of a 2 month delay. I swear a bunch of the backers would be lynching the creators if they could get to them!

Creator Daniel Mackey on March 30

@Paradiso Heh yeah but I'm ok with it if it makes a great project AWESOME though. Of the 7 Kickstarters I backed only one has delivered on time BUT when I started on kickstarter I know ship dates are estimates thats why you are not hearing me complain.

Guys keep up the great design work you are doing and keep us updated. ;-/

Creator Paradiso Shlee on March 30

Mackey: It's an unspoken rule of kickstarter.... All estimations are off by three months :)

Creator Daniel Mackey on March 29

I gotta say, I don't like the wait between updates BUT they have been filled with lots of info each time so I'm getting over it heh.

Creator Bob smith on March 29

@Paul I agree, but I like Paradiso response better :)

Creator Paul Sohier on March 29

Do you have any update on the progress? Last update is already some time ago :(

Creator Daniel Mackey on March 27

@skeezix, oh yeah I know that one. I hear a million Commodores cry and and are suddenly silenced when a 64 has it's voice ripped out..

As long as the boards are fixable I'll fix them first. if they can't the SIDs are tested and saved. One day they will be worth more than GOLD I hope. ROFL.

Creator nickr on March 27

Sell the parts and buy a bbc b ;-)

Creator skeezix on March 27

You can at least rescue the SID chips.. there are many popular and current uses for them :)

Creator Daniel Mackey on March 26

ok so while waiting for the Awesome Picade to arrive I got to working on a dead Commodore 64 main board.
A friend sent me a box of 7 complete DEAD C64s for parts. IF they are complete I would rather fix them that part them out.

The one I fixed had a bad VIC (Video Interface Chip), a bad RAM chip and a non-working power switch. When I powered it up, the screen looks better than any of my systems I currently use.. I will be swapping something around for sure.

"I adore my Commodore 64" what can I say heh...

Creator Paradiso Shlee on March 24

I'm so damn impatient! Make with the Picade!!!!

Creator Dan "DG" on March 22

Maybe a silly question, but will this be available for buying, after all the kickstarter picades are shipped? :)

Have you settled on the final number of the front face buttons on each picade (small and maxi)?

Creator skeezix on March 17

Regarding C4A (and I don't wanna take over the threads here..) -- I'm aiming for 'like versus like', but only 'as best as we can'; for current Pandora build I cut out savestates since thats just too easy; but I've not bothered to (yet..) drop out dipswitches and so on.. because how far do you go? People shouldnt' change dips, but they coudl used hacked roms, or screw with files in a hex editor, or mess with the protocol, etc. Some people change the screen ratio to stretch or not, to their preference.. but does that provide a benefit,m in making images have more pixels per real pixel, and thus be easier to see (Galaxian shot for instance.) Look at Starcraft 2, which is full 3d engine, but regardless of your monitor size and width, they clamp what tyou can see so its always the same as for everyone... how far do you go? :)

But for r-pi .. an r-pi picade distro wouldn't directly work on some other kind of board, so woudl have to trust any C4A packagers to put in the 'platform hint'; and set it appropriately/uniquely. For example right now for Pandora every get/put to the server identifies as Pandora platform (plus a user profile-id they create on first launch, and so on.) I'm rather expectying a platform of 'r-pi' (and if r-pi2 comes out later, we change it for that device perhaps..);

The trick is.. on an r-pi,you can't really check if its a picade per se; well, I coudl add a 'controller id' param, so it could identify itself as r-pi and them send some id for picade, and another id for a Qamba fight-stick, and another-id for some random usb gamepad. But I'm not going to effort to track what allthose are and divide them up into separate leagues etc. Thats crazyness.

So on Pandora, its pandora vs pandora; but for r-pi, I think it woudl be any r-pi versus any r-pi.. picade woudl be a big advantage over some crummy gamepad and 4" display, but.. what can you do? Theres only so far...

But we'll burn that bridge when we get to it :)

Creator Paradiso Shlee on March 15

The OpenPandora is a great little portable console computer... but the controls are never going to be as good as a real cab. So there might be an advantage from one device to another.... you would need to A/B test them apart and see how far the score gap is.

but the Picade vs Picade scoreboard would be fun.... technically being able to separate the units is impossible, if somebody decides they want to cheat - but what is the point