Omnimaga

General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Spyro543 on August 27, 2011, 06:43:55 am

Title: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: Spyro543 on August 27, 2011, 06:43:55 am

How yould you guys like an Omnmimaga open source game system? Probably running off of the BeagleBoard-xM, this would be quite the cool project. It would probably run a very stripped down version of Linux I would call Omnirun....
Right now we need a project name.

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: runeazn on August 27, 2011, 06:55:44 am

So there flies away, "Dreamcalc revive project:"
XD

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: Kjelddy on August 27, 2011, 06:58:08 am

how about project omnomnom :P

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: Juju on August 27, 2011, 12:21:30 pm

That would be nice.

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: Spyro543 on August 27, 2011, 01:10:32 pm

Can anyone make the poll so you can select more than one option?

And so users can remove votes.

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: Kjelddy on August 27, 2011, 01:18:20 pm

for a game slot i would choose a SD slot (or make it able to run games through wifi from a NAS)
:P

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: jnesselr on August 28, 2011, 09:18:33 am

We should make this an OTCalc. :D  Maybe call it the OTCG or the OTCalc Gamer.

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 29, 2011, 12:47:32 pm

It needs at least one analog d-pad - similar to the one on the PSP, where it doesn't stick up.

Title: Re: Omnimaga FOSS game system
Post by: Ashbad on August 29, 2011, 01:21:38 pm

Well, considering that the only type of project that dies before fruition here moreso than Programming Language projects are "Make our own Calculator" projects, perhaps a different approach towards this project could make it so that it actually gets off the ground.  Less polls and more agreements (debates for parts are good, but holding polls for a long time makes people lose interest, forget the long timeline and urgent deadlines that should be kept, etc. -- how about people just research 3 alternatives for possible parts in each field, and we go with the one that is in the middle for both price and coolness)

In that case, the Beagleboard-xM looks great, and has a viable community behind it.  However, pushing it as being the main backbone for the project is not something that should be done without considering a few more options (though, if nothing else comes up to the plate looking as good, then I'll go with it personally)

And with the beagle board -- how expensive is it?  What contract rules do we have to follow if we decided to make use them in open-community hardware/software products?  What discounts do they give for prototyping teams?  For production batches?