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Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station
- deafpolygon 3y agoI would want to use Wayland, though, for the Vsync and other things. I seem to have a better experience with emulation that way. Is there a way to boot something like Retroarch directly via Wayland using wlroots or something?
- karmakaze 3y agoThis is fantastic and should be on the list of "Things to do with an old laptop."
- solene 3y agoThanks!
- jagraff 3y agoWould love to see a video of the laptop booting and running a game
- solene 3y agoIt's a poor quality recording, but here it is https://perso.pw/solene/pc.mp4 https://perso.pw/solene/pc.mp4
- hnarayanan 3y agoOr at least a photo.
- solene 3y agoIt's a poor quality recording, but here it is https://perso.pw/solene/pc.mp4 https://perso.pw/solene/pc.mp4
- jmholla 3y ago> To achieve a more children-proof environment, I decided to run Retroarch directly from a TTY, without a graphical server. I'd love to read more about getting that up.
- solene 3y agoYou would like to see more specific instructions for the setup?
- tetris11 3y agoIt could be rendering directly to the framebuffer (e.g. `mpv playthisfromtty.mp4`). Or they mean they used pure X (e.g. `startx`) and added a decent v-sync compositor such as picom.
- solene 3y agoit's directly using the framebuffer without X or Wayland involved. This is possible because of the SDL backend
- rolph 3y agoarcade machine parts are tough stuff, if you need a physically durable setup. they seem to cost 3-6$ usd each,