SMACH Z a handheld PC for Pinball Arcade?

[Terminator]

A company just launched a kickstarter of a portable system that runs PC games. This device would be perfect for playing the PC version of TPA.

Campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smachteam/smach-z-the-handheld-gaming-pc

 

[Heretic]

interesting concept, needa look up more about the soc see if its really that viable in terms of being even remotely practical outside emulation

edit- text on such a tiny screen would suck even in mostly visual games. id like to see how that battery holds up under full load, amd drivers have historically sucked for linux in terms of stability this may have changed.


if he point is a dx10-11 portable "gameboy" i guess it will appeal to some but it just screams novelty to me, id be much more intrested in a fresh of the pandora portable computer possibly x86 flavoured for that dx access

 

[Terminator]

The current SoC could run TPA dx9 around 30/50 fps. Also, it will have Windows 10 support or Linux.

But the main advantage of the device is modular parts. So in a couple of years we can upgrade the parts, like the CPU/GPU, RAM, HDD e.t.c.

I do worry though how text would look on a 6" 1080p AMOLED.

 

[Snorzel]

The current SoC could run TPA dx9 around 30/50 fps.

Really cool looking device, sadly TPA physics seem to rely on the fps for correct physics behavior. If the game is not locked at 60fps the ball moves at the wrong speed

I would still want it, other pinball games like Zaccaria and Timeshock would work in theory as they don't rely on the fps for physics simulation. + with the ability to upgrade TPA should work in a future build