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Amiga Hardware => Amiga Hardware (FPGA & Emulation) => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: intangybles on November 03, 2020, 10:50:27 am

Title: Raspberry Pi 400
Post by: intangybles on November 03, 2020, 10:50:27 am: WOW this new Raspberry Pi 400 is causing a big buzz! Is anyone getting one? I’ve not looked into it yet.

https://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-400-kit (https://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-400-kit)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi 400
Post by: intangybles on November 04, 2020, 12:34:37 pm: Price for pre-order has come down at Core Electronics.

https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-400-kit.html (https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-400-kit.html)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi 400
Post by: intangybles on November 10, 2020, 12:14:22 pm: Quote from: intangybles on November 04, 2020, 12:34:37 pm
Price for pre-order has come down at Core Electronics.

https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-400-kit.html (https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-400-kit.html)

Well... I ordered one... Let see how it goes.. I hope to get it in the next batch coming into AU...
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi 400
Post by: invent on November 26, 2020, 12:26:00 pm: Good luck on getting one soon. I ordered on the 4th of November, and very keen on seeing how well these machines work, currently looking into Game Controllers.

Wireless/Bluetooth - 8Bitdo SF30 Pro Controller or 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ Bluetooth Gamepad
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi 400
Post by: intangybles on November 26, 2020, 03:19:50 pm: Quote from: invent on November 26, 2020, 12:26:00 pm
Good luck on getting one soon. I ordered on the 4th of November, and very keen on seeing how well these machines work, currently looking into Game Controllers.

Wireless/Bluetooth - 8Bitdo SF30 Pro Controller or 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ Bluetooth Gamepad

I was very lucky... I ordered through Core Electronics and the first date was Jan, then Dec and in the end they got an order in Mid November - great service!

As I was saying FB I still can't get a build I am 100% happy with! Newer chips in the 400 seems to be causing a few issues.... But i'm sure they will all get there! A few people on the net seem to be doing their setup on the Pi4 - updating - and then transferring to the 400, sadly I don't have a Pi4 at present!

Manjaro seems to give the best overall performance as a base OS, no surprise as its Arch based but even their latest image did not have WiFi or Bluetooth with out and "unofficial" update I got from their forum!

Then Amiberry ran very quickly but I can't get it to boot to fullscreen - its been driving me mad - sadly not had the time to work on it as much as I would like! Ubuntu did work fullscreen but its got a very heavy GUI and not had the time to try an alternate desktop as yet! I'm sure Lubuntu would fly!

Controllers are a bit away for me yet...
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi 400 (FaceBook Link)
Post by: intangybles on November 26, 2020, 04:12:52 pm: Back Link to the FB post for reference:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmigaRetroBrisbane/permalink/830463241034137 (https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmigaRetroBrisbane/permalink/830463241034137)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi 400 - Manjaro Updates This week!
Post by: intangybles on November 26, 2020, 07:37:40 pm: Manjaro have published updates this week since I last tried it.

They are adding official Pi 400 support - still not working for me but WiFi etc does now work after update

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-update-2020-11-24-kernels-phosh-lxqt-plasma-5-20-3-frameworks-bitwarden-uboot/39427 (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-update-2020-11-24-kernels-phosh-lxqt-plasma-5-20-3-frameworks-bitwarden-uboot/39427)