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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Yeah PXE boot has been a thing for decades, and with network speeds going from 10/100, gigabit, and now potentially 5-10gbit it’s pretty viable for home environments. It’s great for common libraries, and mine has an emulator plus a bunch of GoG etc games which I’ve been tinkering to make run nicely.

    My preference though is still “thick” clients which use the network for boot and OS/storage, but still have their own CPU and RAM.

    Other than storage and networking, the server side requirements aren’t huge. My plan is to make a portable environment which people can patch into and play classic games together.

    (If anyone has experience with OpenSpy and getting it to work sans-Internet I’d love to pick your brain, as I really want to get BF2142 and other classics running fully without internet)





  • Yeah my first thought was that Frame should be ok since my intended use-case was “connected to Steam PC via the wireless transceiver” but then I AI remembered it can run standalone so would also need storage, RAM, and a strong enough processor to handle all that.

    Now I’m kinda thinking it would be cool if the Frame was more like an updated Index with wireless, local tracking etc etc and an optional daughter-board - for standalone gameplay functionality - that could be connected later or even allow upgrades.