War is coming

[lackyluuk]

@Substring @voljega yeah, your probably right. Its possible that asus produces here an already dying platform...the do not seem to care about

[voljega]

@lackyluuk yeah it looks like there was a serious hardware fail on their part and they pulled out the model or something...

[Substring]

it's been withdrawn from sale, but i thought it was due to a problem with tinkerOS, not the hardware itself

[peterpan123123]

@Substring Have one since beginning and had no problem at all. The performance is outstanding. Asus is developing (actual TinkerOS is v1.6 (started with v1.3)).

Still looking forward to run recalbox on a tinkerOS;-)

[Substring]

@peterpan123123 It would never run on tinkerOS, because recalbox is an OS itself built from scratch. Recalbox is not a plugin on top of on existing OS (whereas retropie is) so we have one moreaspect to hadle on the OS side : the whole system itself. On the other hand we have our hand on every single aspect of the OS which means that we mostly have to deal with architecture specific details, hardly anything related to the OS itself.

[peterpan123123]

@Substring I know (was wrong wording, ment recalbox on Asus Tinkerbox), just meaning, that they are on their way of developing drivers and API. Maybe that helps one day:-)

[voljega]

apparently it's back on sale, you can find it for 62 euros

http://www.minimachines.net/actu/asus-tinker-board-vente-50165

[Substring]

@voljega I'm on fire now ...

[voljega]

@Substring Is it more because war is coming or spring is already there ?

[Substring]

@voljega war is coming in spring ^^

[peterpan123123]

@Substring Wow, since april the 20th it even has a TinkerOS_Android V13.11.0.2 (Beta version). It's getting more and more interesting.

[Tornelf]

Je suis dégouté; j'attends un odroid xu4 et je sens que je l'ai acheté pour rien...

[Substring]

@Tornelf non non, on est encore tres loin de porter recalbox sur la tinker

[hannibal]

@Substring hey bro, i have a tinker board i would send you if you would port recalbox to it. As long as you posted a video on how to put recalbox and kodi on the board.

[Substring]

@hannibal hi
tech docs from asus are not really available, porting anything to tinker board yet looks much more like some dirty hacking than some proper job. Some more skilled people than me tried to port arch linux, looks like a real mess for now as ASUS is hardly releasing any source code or technical info.

[hannibal]

@Substring well the offer still stands to you or to anyone else who might be able to port it over. I ran out and bought one the third day it was out, thinking this was going to replace my pi 3. 3 months later its still sitting in the box.

[redix]

Well...no USB3...what the hell?

Middle 2019: Raspberry Pi4 with new BCM4908 1.8Ghz, 2GB Ram and USB3 ports and new GPU...

[Substring]

@redix there is no use in having usb3 when the device can't even match a full usb2 speed the same goes with 100M vs 1G LAN

[RustyMG]

God, now there is yet another one!

http://www.techradar.com/news/rock64-is-a-powerful-raspberry-pi-rival-with-usb-30-and-4k-hdr-support

[Substring]

The problem with both tinker and rock64 are :

• kernel sources
• u-boot defconfig
• framebuffer GPU driver

I spent a few hours reading about the tinker board and which progress has been made for non TinkerOS builds : it's still a complicated thing, ASUS not being not really of a great help ...

Regarding the rock64 : this one looks like it's more "open", but yet too young to know how easy it is to port recalbox on it. But the specs are really promising : can be compared to a 32bit Odroid C2 (and the Odroid C2 is very good device regarding emulation performance. Just dreamcast can't run on it)