Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station

Re:Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retro... by jmholla on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:01PM (#37559618)

> To achieve a more children-proof environment, I decided to run Retroarch directly from a TTY, without a graphical server.

I'd love to read more about getting that up.

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Re:Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retro... by tetris11 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:14AM (#37566592)

It could be rendering directly to the framebuffer (e.g. `mpv playthisfromtty.mp4`).

Or they mean they used pure X (e.g. `startx`) and added a decent v-sync compositor such as picom.

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Re:Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retro... by solene on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:31AM (#37643491)

it's directly using the framebuffer without X or Wayland involved. This is possible because of the SDL backend

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Re:Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retro... by solene on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:25AM (#37643405)

You would like to see more specific instructions for the setup?

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