I ordered a Raspberry Pi. After I get it, I am going to see if I can get Showeq to run on it. It will take me a while to get the the Pi and then I am going to fool around with it for a while before I attempt ShowEQ.
Has anyone else tried it?
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I ordered a Raspberry Pi. After I get it, I am going to see if I can get Showeq to run on it. It will take me a while to get the the Pi and then I am going to fool around with it for a while before I attempt ShowEQ.
Has anyone else tried it?
I've been thinking of trying this, a portable showeq solution to plug into hotel tv's for those working away could be useful .. ;)
Hmm, well now I finally have a reason to look at getting one of these. Need to do some research to figure out which linux distributions are available for it. Also would need to figure out how to route the ShowEQ traffic over to it. Could just use wifi connected on an open network. Most hotel wifi is open now, but unfortunately a lot of them seem to be moving to special routers that isolate every IP address. Likely best to stick with wired network and carry an old hub with you also.
I unfortunately haven't had time to even play with my raspberry pi I got. It does have 1 wired network. You could probably put a usb network (wired or wireless) card in it if you are going to use it as a router. Inet-pi-laptop.
It runs debian is the standard, but there is a RH distro. You will probably have to add a lot of packages to get it to run. Good news is that I have a 32gb sd card and have plenty of space....so far.
Oh I want one. I might order one of those tonight. I need a linux machine and this would be perfect.
Razzle
Just so you know, display took a bit of configuration for it to work with hdmi. Can easily be used with composite but you are limited in resolution then. The best place to get one is ebay. You may pay a couple extra bucks but at least you will get it fairly quickly. Mouser electronics has them too. Getting one from the main raspberry pi site will take you 3-6 months to get. They are that far in back orders. It does not include a power supply. It runs off a usb power (5 volts) or a case.
I dont think it is real powerful and if you are looking for horsepower in a small size, I would say to go with micro-itx or mini-itx.
They also have minecraft and mame for raspberry pi. I haven't tried either yet.
XBMC for Rasberry Pi is supposed to work really good as well and makes a great media center. Build a case for it out of Lego's to save some cash.
Anyone get it working with Rasp pi? Mine should be here next week. Not sure which dist would have qt3 support. This will be fun to play with til I build a full size mame arcade cabinet to put it in. Thats gonna be my summer project.
Razzle
You know my time is short when I have had this for a while now and still havent had time to play. I have a usb monitor and will be making it into a mame machine. I have 2 usb battery packs to run the monitor and pi.
The nice thing is you only need one pi and then just use a different SD card and you have a new pi... :)
There is a CentOS version for pi. I haven't tried it.
I showeq my wife what I was going build at http://www.arcadecab.com
She was so thrilled. Lol.
Razzle
LOL Showeq my wife...shows you where your head is....
I know the pi doesnt have a lot of horse power, but it will run quite a few of the old games. I was planning on building a mame cabinet with the usb monitor and make it one that you can sit in your lap. I figure the 2 battery packs (one 30000va and one 22000va) should give me at least several hours of play.
Got a little time to play with my RPi. After getting the right packages installed in Raspbian Wheezy, it compiled and ran. I need to find my little cheapy hub to see if there are any issues with it running and stability. Maybe later this week.
Razzle
Cool. I still havent had the time yet. So damn busy...
I still haven't ordered mine, but the dark nights are now upon me, so it's either EQ or anything else while I sit on the sofa with 'er indoors watching the telly.
I have my pi.
I have configured it to be static ip, using a wired network.
I have added x-forwarding and ssh server
The x-forwarding over ssh (putty session) is working very well, the pi itself is nice and stable and my intention will be to run the pi totally headless and pull the showeq screen back onto my winows box using said x-forwarding (no idea how wel it will work but in theory it should be fine)
After some package installs (I'll bung some notes up in a while)
(and building direct from svn (thanks Francisk for the tutorial))
The pi has finished ./configure in a reasonable minute or so.
`make` is running and the pub beckons with the wife nagging me to get ready ....
updates in a couple of hours (if it finished compiling the interfaces by then) ...
Success!
Showeq running on a raspberry pi.
I just need to figure out quite which change allowed access to the x server.
Additionally, as I currently have the whole desktop / showeq running in xming I just need to play about a bit to get just the showeq window over an x-forwarded session.
unfortunately I can't post any images though (unable to copy/move file).
Awesome. How does it run?
Very well so far, just giving it a couple of hours of running to see if anything odd makes it crap out.
And a bit more update.
It seems to be very stable indeed, a definite improvemnt on the odd crash was to use session tracking and real time thread (Both from Network menu item) as zoning on 2 chars simultaneously was I think the primary cause of the buffer overflow.
I think all thet is left is to create a long list of easy to follow instrcution and everyone can have a showeq-pi :)
Or could post a generic OS image and put it on dropbox or something.
yeah, you aren't the first to say "can I have your image" which is porbably the easiest way to go but I probably need to do it from scratch to clear off the other os's and unused crap to clean it all up a bit.
The smallest part would be post "make" of teh source folder, leaving you to just "makes install" but you would need the pre-reqs of qt3, libtool, libpcap etc all being installed.
..and one day I'll learn to type as well.
I'm blaming my termporary keyboard and new glasses.
Lol just a suggestion. It probably wouldn't do me any good anyway. I havent been able to play EQ in probably a year now. Just dont have the time like I used to. For some reason, I got this bright idea to marry someone a couple years ago. What little time I had to myself is long gone.
I'm going to attempt a fully running card image, but I do have to go and drink some beer tonight so don't expect it until later in the week.
hopefully this way people can just load a card, set their own ip and run (or in case of updates, rebuild from svn and then run.
Marriage ain't that bad, you just need to get the eq<-> wife balance right, the had part is adding in a day job, social life and children. Spinning plates anyone?
I have a job that demands 10+ hours a day from me. The wife takes the rest.
As I haven't got round to an image yet, here is the best starting point I can provide:
Yes / next Ok or select the right bits (I think it asks for location, keyboard settings etc) and leave network as DHCP
Start with Raspbian, and after installing that, select advanced and start SSH server
you get to your nice pi@raspberry promt, install all of the following
- apt-get update
- apt-get upgrade
- apt-get install xdm
- apt-get install x11-apps
- apt-get install libvte9
- apt-get install qt3-dev-tools
- apt-get install subversion
- apt-get install libtool
- apt-get install aclocal
- apt-get install make
- apt-get install automake
- apt-get install libpcap-dev
Now to get some other bits done
- mkdir /build
- cd /build
- svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/seq/svn/showeq/trunk showeq
- cd showeq
- make -f Makefile.dist build
- ./configure
The next one takes foooooooking ages.
- make
- make install
now if you are running the pi on what you will normally display it on, (tv) then we can just start showeq
- showeq
You should now have a window . just need to set the ip to monitor in the network list, add some maps and also set network-> session tracking and network->real time thread
next check http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/pixming.php for info on how to get the window onto your windows pc, or you can rn showeq on your pi :)
Don't forget, you will need a set of maps too.
I think thats about it but ask any questions and I'll answer :)
That is great. Thanks!
Do you have it working on a hub or did you add a second network (usb?) card?
Mines on a hub, I'm thinking about trying to get it to run from say laptop->cat45->pi->wifi->router with the pi just proxying the traffic through, but not sure if it will manage to cope with the traffic better or worse, it would though remove the need for a hub if it does work that way ;)
additional note - my image is currently ~ 16gb which I think is probably a bit big for uploading /dl just for showeq.
Gonna have a rummage for a say 2gb card to do the install on, I know theres one here somewhere.
The notes above on what to install thoug are concise and should have the required results in less time than it would take do / upload /dl and write an image, and you still have to do the "make" which is ~1hour on a 512 model B pi.
Woot, finally made my raspberry pi SEQ box. I tried the fedora version first, because I really don't care for debian, but there were too many dependency problems. Wheezy installed fine.
I'm looking to give this a try too. Was anyone successful with going the wifi route or should I go with the hub?
Used a usb network dongle and made it my router.
Thanks Spanners, your guide was great getting setup. I tried the wifi route and got everything up and running.
Now... what are my chances of doing an older compile successfully that would run on an emu server? I tried it from many different angles, but haven't been able to either get past the configure or makefile steps. Any tips? Is it even a possibility?
Thanks in advance for any input.
I believe it would work. It depends on if it needs a lower QT.
silly question but how do you load map onto the pi?
I added ftpd to it and just transferred the maps over.
With the release of the pi3, running SEQ on a pi is much better. It has a built in wifi and ethernet. What makes it great, is that you can turn the wifi into a wifi router. So now my laptop connects to the pi wirelessly and it runs SEQ!
See this page on how to set it up as a hotspot/router.
https://frillip.com/using-your-raspb...-with-hostapd/
This is how I have my network.
Inet-wireless router-hard wire to pi-laptop via wireless on pi
I only have the my laptop going to the pi since I did not want to tax the built in wifi. So now I just have a new wireless network called SEQ and leave my laptop connected to it all the time.
I was reading up on how they are banning people for using vmware and virtualbox. That is how I had been testing and I didn't want to get my accounts banned (yes I could have created a free one but Im lazy. This was more fun).
So for about 40 bucks, I have a working SEQ machine that was dead simple to do.
I have used it a couple of times since I built it. For some reason, it doesn't always see the client. I have learned to do do the monitor for next client and then it works. I used it for a while with no problems.
One thing I've done to make sniffing network devices with Wireshark a lot easier on the job is use a RaspberryPi3 with a SharkTap (basically USB powered 3 port switch with one port configured as a span port). Both devices can be powered from a 2 port USB power pack so it's extremely convenient since all that's required is putting the tap in-line with the target system. I then configure the RaspberryPI to act as an Access Point only, not a router. This is so I can connect to the PI wirelessly and bring up a Wireshark session on my Windows laptop via X11. I think this might work with SEQ. The main advantages are that it's completely invisible, doesn't require the RaspberryPI do any Routing/NAT/etc..., and you can run Wireshark/SEQ on the same system as the EQ (via X11 and encrypted with ssh).