Re: Löve on PocketC.H.I.P.?
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:56 am
Thank you for your detailed reply!
Budget is never an issue, but I was most interested in the PocketChip because of its hobbyist niche and its neat design. It'd be a neat thing to just have on display and if I could actually use it to do something it'd be a fun bonus.
I've looked into the GPD Win too and am highly interested in that too as it would play so much more like possibly Spelunky on Steam and some other smaller Steam games I have and would be neat to play with too but I keep thinking there'll be something better coming along. Or that it's not perfect yet. If I was gonna go full PC it'd need Windows. Just because I'd want to play Steam and the majority of my games that are all on Steam. I'm also always afraid that if I ever had to reset it, I wouldn't be able to get Windows back onto it due to not having like a disk to just restore from and I'd have to make one myself and I really don't want to do that. I'm spoiled by my Mac's super simple internet recovery.
PocketChip's resolution doesn't matter to me anyway. It's made for low resolution simple games anyway. I've already played around with my project at its resolution and half resolution. It's the same resolution as the original PSP. (If you can believe it) I've seen the complaints about the keyboard in all the YouTube reviews I've watched. It does need a better one and an overlay for the buttons in the next version definitely. Lack of speaker is really silly on their part. What would it cost, a few extra bucks for even the cheapest speaker? Though it's not even an issue as long as the jack is there.
Pico8 is great and all, but yeah it's complaints are too much. I know all its limitations are what makes it special, and I love it for that, but I wouldn't want to play with it on such a low resolution of 128x128 when, even at 2x pixel size I'd rather be able to take up the whole screen space of 240x138 pixels. Then there's the other limits. But that's a whole new can of beans. But its resolution is the most. So having Löve and its full range of abilities would be great. I'd set the device up with a shell script to launch the project from the home screen. (I already use a shell script to launch mine as it is.)
I'd still be interest in Löve's options for it. The only other place I've found anyone ask is the NTC forum with no answers as to whether it works or not. However at this point I'd really only be interested in 0.10.x or nothing at all. I could see there being problems but I don't know. If you do get it running at all, even an older version, I'd be interested in knowing the outcome.
Budget is never an issue, but I was most interested in the PocketChip because of its hobbyist niche and its neat design. It'd be a neat thing to just have on display and if I could actually use it to do something it'd be a fun bonus.
I've looked into the GPD Win too and am highly interested in that too as it would play so much more like possibly Spelunky on Steam and some other smaller Steam games I have and would be neat to play with too but I keep thinking there'll be something better coming along. Or that it's not perfect yet. If I was gonna go full PC it'd need Windows. Just because I'd want to play Steam and the majority of my games that are all on Steam. I'm also always afraid that if I ever had to reset it, I wouldn't be able to get Windows back onto it due to not having like a disk to just restore from and I'd have to make one myself and I really don't want to do that. I'm spoiled by my Mac's super simple internet recovery.
PocketChip's resolution doesn't matter to me anyway. It's made for low resolution simple games anyway. I've already played around with my project at its resolution and half resolution. It's the same resolution as the original PSP. (If you can believe it) I've seen the complaints about the keyboard in all the YouTube reviews I've watched. It does need a better one and an overlay for the buttons in the next version definitely. Lack of speaker is really silly on their part. What would it cost, a few extra bucks for even the cheapest speaker? Though it's not even an issue as long as the jack is there.
Pico8 is great and all, but yeah it's complaints are too much. I know all its limitations are what makes it special, and I love it for that, but I wouldn't want to play with it on such a low resolution of 128x128 when, even at 2x pixel size I'd rather be able to take up the whole screen space of 240x138 pixels. Then there's the other limits. But that's a whole new can of beans. But its resolution is the most. So having Löve and its full range of abilities would be great. I'd set the device up with a shell script to launch the project from the home screen. (I already use a shell script to launch mine as it is.)
I'd still be interest in Löve's options for it. The only other place I've found anyone ask is the NTC forum with no answers as to whether it works or not. However at this point I'd really only be interested in 0.10.x or nothing at all. I could see there being problems but I don't know. If you do get it running at all, even an older version, I'd be interested in knowing the outcome.