Title: Bricks make a cube, redux
Post by: pitz on March 24, 2016, 02:13:49 AM
Post by: pitz on March 24, 2016, 02:13:49 AM
It took me a while to take on the follow-up work suggested from http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3757
So ya, I sneaked in some time across several nights to come up with a slightly bigger version of the LEGO NeXT Cube. This one is a 12x12x12 construct and able to fit a Raspberry Pi 3 (or 2).
For kicks, I built the latest snapshot of Previous in the Pi and that's shown in the pictures, except that it runs slow as molasses (or maybe that's just because of SDL) -- status bar shows that the emulation runs at 0.3 of the 25 MHz speed of the original cube. Still, thanks and much appreciation goes to andreas and team for the work they've done on Previous (I wish I'd get enough time to port it to use the native Windows UI instead of SDL2).
Cheers,
pitz
So ya, I sneaked in some time across several nights to come up with a slightly bigger version of the LEGO NeXT Cube. This one is a 12x12x12 construct and able to fit a Raspberry Pi 3 (or 2).
For kicks, I built the latest snapshot of Previous in the Pi and that's shown in the pictures, except that it runs slow as molasses (or maybe that's just because of SDL) -- status bar shows that the emulation runs at 0.3 of the 25 MHz speed of the original cube. Still, thanks and much appreciation goes to andreas and team for the work they've done on Previous (I wish I'd get enough time to port it to use the native Windows UI instead of SDL2).
Cheers,
pitz
Title: Re: Bricks make a cube, redux
Post by: Rob Blessin Black Hole on March 24, 2016, 03:33:10 AM
Post by: Rob Blessin Black Hole on March 24, 2016, 03:33:10 AM
Hello Pitz: Very Cool!
Quote from: "pitz"It took me a while to take on the follow-up work suggested from http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3757:shock: Best regards Rob
So ya, I sneaked in some time across several nights to come up with a slightly bigger version of the LEGO NeXT Cube. This one is a 12x12x12 construct and able to fit a Raspberry Pi 3 (or 2).
For kicks, I built the latest snapshot of Previous in the Pi and that's shown in the pictures, except that it runs slow as molasses (or maybe that's just because of SDL) -- status bar shows that the emulation runs at 0.3 of the 25 MHz speed of the original cube. Still, thanks and much appreciation goes to andreas and team for the work they've done on Previous (I wish I'd get enough time to port it to use the native Windows UI instead of SDL2).
Cheers,
pitz
Title: Bricks make a cube, redux
Post by: NeXTnewbe on March 25, 2016, 08:22:05 AM
Post by: NeXTnewbe on March 25, 2016, 08:22:05 AM
Love it!!
Title: Re: Bricks make a cube, redux
Post by: bobo68 on November 05, 2016, 08:27:57 AM
Post by: bobo68 on November 05, 2016, 08:27:57 AM
Quote from: "pitz"For kicks, I built the latest snapshot of Previous in the Pi and that's shown in the pictures, except that it runs slow as molasses (or maybe that's just because of SDL) -- status bar shows that the emulation runs at 0.3 of the 25 MHz speed of the original cube. Still, thanks and much appreciation goes to andreas and team for the work they've done on Previous (I wish I'd get enough time to port it to use the native Windows UI instead of SDL2).
Did you built SDL2 with direct framebuffer access on the Pi? I'm just wondering why you refer to "Windows".
see here: https://solarianprogrammer.com/2015/01/22/raspberry-pi-raspbian-getting-started-sdl-2/
Title: Bricks make a cube, redux
Post by: eagle on February 26, 2018, 10:49:36 AM
Post by: eagle on February 26, 2018, 10:49:36 AM
Is there any chance anyone saved these pics?
Edit: never mind -- pics work now.
Edit: never mind -- pics work now.
Title: Bricks make a cube, redux
Post by: eagle on February 27, 2018, 07:59:48 AM
Post by: eagle on February 27, 2018, 07:59:48 AM
Is there any chance you have build instructions? :)
Title: Nice!
Post by: spintronic on May 08, 2018, 10:50:49 AM
Post by: spintronic on May 08, 2018, 10:50:49 AM
How well does a Pi3 run WindowMaker and GNUStep? That would be a cool little development machine if it could.
Title: Re: Nice!
Post by: eagle on May 08, 2018, 10:37:35 PM
Post by: eagle on May 08, 2018, 10:37:35 PM
Quote from: "spintronic"How well does a Pi3 run WindowMaker and GNUStep? That would be a cool little development machine if it could.Works fine for me. I have long since forgotten most of what I knew about X11, so I don't remember how to switch the window manager on startup; I just kill openbox, kill lxpanel, and start wmaker.