I love it. No reason to stay with dots for everything, IMHO.

--Donnie

Eric, I found a wifi dongle that's supposed to work with this version of Ubuntu. Once the next update is ready, I'll try to configure it and let you know if it works or not. If so, it'll be an easy button for people who wanna network their CCC's via wifi. I think it was $15 shipped via Amazon Prime.

--Donnie

While we wait on the next code update...

Are there any other fairly complete re-themes using P-ROC? Other than this and BOP? I've done some poking around but either there are not (I see a TOTAN in the works, but not much else) or the discussion is happening somewhere else?

--Donnie

So some of your questions I can’t answer, but the ones I can…

First, returning the game to stock wouldn’t be hard at all. WPC95 CPUs and the AV board you need can be found fairly easily, then you’d just need to pick up a CC ROM, also no real problem. Seriously, I wouldn’t sweat that, but I also wouldn’t personally bother as CCC is so much better. I mean I kept my boards when I converted my game, but I’ve never had thoughts of returning them.

As for replacing the Shuttle, it may be possible to find an exact replacement used on eBay, but I think pretty much any small form factor PC will work. I wouldn’t sweat this part. But as for bothering, first I’d try pulling the Shuttle, popping it open, and looking at the PCB solder joints for the HDMI connector. If it works with pressure just right, then it’s probably just a bad solder joint or two, and re-flowing with a soldering iron and a tad bit of fresh solder should fix it fine.

—Donnie

In an ideal world, someone could upload a complete SD card image that could be used. With that, it would be pretty plug and play otherwise, I think. The only local config you might want to do that I can think of would be to put your Pi on the network if you wanted to for future updates, but even that wouldn’t be *necessary* if you were just going to do updates via SD images. *shrug*

—Donnie

FYI, RPi’s can suck a LOT of juice. Like 3A by themselves. So be careful where you power it from. You are correct, though, that they have no integrated power switch.

But there is another way to *avoid* corruption….but it will require a little hacking. You could just keep everything mounted read-only. Maybe move the high scores and the game settings to a small partition and remount that rw when you need to update something and then back to ro when done. You can do that so fast that it’s *unlikely* someone would hit the power switch while it’s happening, anyway, and even if they did it’s a reasonably small thing to fix.

Pretty sure my machine has the CSSC, which is probably the best way to handle it. An RPi can be made to shutdown cleanly very quickly.

—Donnie

You can definitely make GPIO control startup/shutdown.

And yeah, Compy, you are correct. That’s why I said “with some hacking.” I’ve done it, but it’s been a few years ago to setup a UPS monitor to network bridge. And, well, in a former life I did a little bit of Linux hacking. Cool that you’re able to help out on this, and much appreciated!

—Donnie

Any work been done to make the Pi run mostly with the file systems mounted read-only? I’d think the only time they’d need to write would be high scores and any audit data? Would make needing to do anything special with the power (for clean shutdowns) unnecessary, which would be nice.

Pretty cool that a Zero is enough horsepower for this, too.

—Donnie