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Project Pine

An open source HTML 5 game console

Pine's goal is to provide a game console platform for HTML 5 games.

Project status.

Learn more about the project expectations.

Discourse is welcome and encouraged. Please direct any discussion to the Google Group. Since this project requires a lot of research and experimentation before we can really start coding anything, it will be some time before there are many commits for this project. Research and status updates will be posted to the Google Group and this wiki. You are welcome to contribute!

Technical stack

• Raspberry Pi
• Linux (Raspbian)
• Google Chromium
• NodeJS

Plan

1. Research technical feasibility
2. Set up development environment
3. Build Pine app for interfacing with games
4. Run software on Raspberry Pi Hardware

1. Technical Feasibility

Raspberry Pi runs on ARM architecture, so the stack needs to be compatible with it.

• Linux: We are using Raspbian.
• Node: Confirmed to work.
• Chromium: Confirmed to work.

Outstanding question: How will this stack perform on an actual Raspberry Pi? Can anyone with actual hardware test this? The Chromium performance is the biggest concern.

2. Development Environment

Pine will be developed with QEMU.

3. Build Pine app for interfacing with games

Pine app is in the planning stage.

4. Running on Hardware

We don't yet have hardware to test on.