Minetest on the OUYA. A opensource console.. Is it possible?
Minetest on the OUYA. A opensource console.. Is it possible?
I don't know if you guys know the OUYA the new opensource condole running on Android. Is it possible to make a apk and convert minetest control for the OUYA controller to make it on it. For more information on the OUYA go on their website: http://www.ouya.tv/ . The game is free and can stay free on the OUYA.
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/me wonders how many times this has been suggested by now... then shudders
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<Anarchid> my turn was still the most awesome, yielding all the cripples, two captured paranormals, and death rate of about 30%
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<Anarchid> my turn was still the most awesome, yielding all the cripples, two captured paranormals, and death rate of about 30%
<ORCACommander> Anarchid: you need to work harder
<ORCACommander> I am hereby putting you under review until you can increase the casualty rate
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I don't get why people call the Ouya an "open source" console. Its developers don't champion open source in any way and most of the software on it is not open source. The Ouya developers never even called it "open source"; they called it "open". Their use of "open" also applies to Windows. They're talking about not having DRM that restricts what you can develop or what you can download. More specifically, they mean that anyone is allowed to develop for it without paying huge fees to the manufacturers of the Ouya.
I don't know much about the Ouya, but I think it's not even as "open" (by the way they use the term) as Windows; my understanding is you can't install normal Android software by default, and the only place you can get games from has some sort of restriction on distributors requiring a gratis demo to be available. That's what they advertised on the Kickstarter project, anyway.
In any case, the Ouya is basically just a customized Android system. If Minetest gets ported to Android, it will be possible to port to the Ouya just as well. The question is whether or not anyone is willing to do the work. Personally, I don't own or want an Ouya, and I don't own any device that runs Android, so I don't care.
I don't know much about the Ouya, but I think it's not even as "open" (by the way they use the term) as Windows; my understanding is you can't install normal Android software by default, and the only place you can get games from has some sort of restriction on distributors requiring a gratis demo to be available. That's what they advertised on the Kickstarter project, anyway.
In any case, the Ouya is basically just a customized Android system. If Minetest gets ported to Android, it will be possible to port to the Ouya just as well. The question is whether or not anyone is willing to do the work. Personally, I don't own or want an Ouya, and I don't own any device that runs Android, so I don't care.
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Jackie45, I don't think you're getting this. Let me put this in layman terms.
Ok. Android is a mobile operating system based on Linux. Minetest runs on many PC OSs including Ubuntu, which is based on Linux. The difference is, C++ does not go nice with Android, the same way that Mexican food and the American stomach does not agree with each other. Minetest is based on C++. So, it does not go nice with Android. Now Android's favourite is Java, and to port Minetest to Java is like rewriting Wikipedia in French. From scratch. Plus, Minetest runs fairly on systems with 2 GHz dual core processors, 1 GB RAM, integrated GPU. We are porting this to something with 1 GHz dual core, 512 MB RAM, and a GPU that will make the intel HD 2000 feel like a GTX 800 with Keplar. And 9001 CUDA cores.
This isn't to say that it hasn't been attempted before. It has been and still is. If you might be patient, we might have a beta around, Summer 2014.
Ok. Android is a mobile operating system based on Linux. Minetest runs on many PC OSs including Ubuntu, which is based on Linux. The difference is, C++ does not go nice with Android, the same way that Mexican food and the American stomach does not agree with each other. Minetest is based on C++. So, it does not go nice with Android. Now Android's favourite is Java, and to port Minetest to Java is like rewriting Wikipedia in French. From scratch. Plus, Minetest runs fairly on systems with 2 GHz dual core processors, 1 GB RAM, integrated GPU. We are porting this to something with 1 GHz dual core, 512 MB RAM, and a GPU that will make the intel HD 2000 feel like a GTX 800 with Keplar. And 9001 CUDA cores.
This isn't to say that it hasn't been attempted before. It has been and still is. If you might be patient, we might have a beta around, Summer 2014.
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7:42 PM - Bauglio: I think if you go to staples you could steal firmware from a fax machine that would run better than win10 does on any platform
7:42 PM - Bauglio: so fudge the stable build
7:43 PM - Bauglio: get the staple build
7:42 PM - Bauglio: so fudge the stable build
7:43 PM - Bauglio: get the staple build
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