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Mario Bros on 100$Laptop

youtube.com — Not only can the OLPC run Doom flawlessly, it can also emulate the Mario Bros. games. Previously known as the $100 laptop, the OLPC boasts a 500mhz Processor, Linux OS, 1GB Memory, and a Two-Mode Display (Color and B&W).

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osc1882, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20So where do I buy one of these?
( Yes, I know, most likely I can't. But dang it, I want one. )
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2Join the "big boyz", children. Grab an RPG.
  
  VIDEO: OLPC XO ($100 Laptop) running Doom
  
  ,----[ Quote ]
  | Linuxlookup continues to receive requests for an evaluation of the
  | $100 laptop. I've personally sent countless replies to individuals
  | politely explaining the initiative behind OLPC, trust me, if we're
  | ever going to do a review it will be announced on the front page.
  `----
  
  http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/29/olpc_xo_running_doom
- beastleboys, on 10/12/2007, -23/+2I don't know about you but I'm going blackface to try to get one
- dasaroth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Wait a few days after launch... it will be on ebay.
- SACSTATE, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16OLPC... bringing procrastination to the 3rd world.
- StephenChow, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1Thats awsome.... Say, I'm playin Gears of War right now, and I can't kill this RAAM bitch, whats up? Should I just run and get the nav data to the bomb or what...
- alexrapo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1
  http://www.uxelements.com/
ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Party like it's 1985!
daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+59OMG! Show the cartridge so we're not doing anything illegal!
- robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, doesn't he realize there's no call for ethical behavior on the Internet?
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think your comment was uncalled for.:)
jrob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35wow sad mario skills :(
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20No kidding. He sucks. It's almost depressing.
- aspangenberg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3***** Weeeaaaak!!
- champsampson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"It's the buttons!!"
- SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2not only that, but my god. the emu has a frame skip of 5+ hes just warping from one spot to the other..... im more impressed with mario on a psp, regardless of it being 150$ bucks more >
- brian4572, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1he's nervous because he's taking a video of himself, he can't take the pressure "he's got the willies, he's got the buckwheats"
shadus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24You know there is nothing more important than gaming skills for the third world. Then we can have Ethiopian gold farmers...
- jbus, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7This isn't part of the OLPC project, so you can ease up on the sarcasm. It was just a couple of students goofing around with one of the machines.
- fixyourthinking, on 10/12/2007, -15/+8But there's truth to the sarcasm ... this is the stupidest world aid project EVER conceived ... and besides the title is wrong each laptop ends up costing the purchasers $970 ... google for that.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Yeah these Ethiopians kids should work hard all day on farms, no playing should be allowed! /sarcasm
- archiesteel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@jackwhispers: nonsense, the individual laptops will cost about 130$.
  
  You may be thinking of this quote:
  
  "Jon Camfield, a writer for OLPC News and master's degree candidate in the International Science and Technology Program at George Washington University, says that once maintenance, training, Internet connectivity, and other factors are taken into account, the actual cost of each laptop rises to more than $970."
  
  Maintenance, training and Internet connectivity are corrollary costs. They are not part of the actual unit cost, and such figures are highly debatable. Saying that each laptop will really cost 970$ is misleading.
1773nium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Sweet, all I need now is to grow a third arm and I'm money.
- mc4_a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I mean who's arm is that and why is it in there?
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Baby, you make me wish I had three hands...
haqattaq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So a $100 laptop is good for something...
- beastleboys, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Yeah, it can emulate a $10 nintendo and a $2 game
- DonPMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24Yes, America will supply poor children in Africa with just what they will need -- Bibles and hand-crank laptops that run Linux. What more could they ask for? Meanwhile, the evil Microsoft founder Bill Gates is spending billions trying to cure malaria and AIDS. Obviously that is just a publicity stunt, something the MIT Media Lab would never do.
- goatswii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@DonPMitchell
  
  I'm not sure if I'm supposed to feel guilty or smug after reading your post. Please clarify and I'll adjust my demeanor accordingly.
- Persol2point0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0@goatswii:
  yes
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22What else would you expect MIT Media labs to do?
  
  Bill gates = richest human on the planet. I expect him to help by giving money. Lots of it. Which he's doing. Which is great.
  MIT Media lab = some of the smartest geeks on the planet. I expect them to create interesting technology. Which they are doing. Which is great.
mikefitz2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3From the Wiki:

"The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of "one laptop per child." Discussions are ongoing with many countries and we are in detailed discussions regarding a launch of the program in Brazil, Argentina, Libya, Nigeria, and Thailand. A modest allocation of machines will be used to seed developer communities in a number of other countries in early 2007. A commercial version of the machine will be explored in parallel."

Looks like they plan on capitalizing on their R&D while at the same time providing their service to third world countries. Good for them.
daxsymbiont, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3get it a cheapo 3d system and it could play quake3 flawlessly.

i guess it already plays fine games like quake2 and older.
ScuttleEnough, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Can the OLPC remote desktop into a windows box so work can be done on it?
- lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If you can play mario bros I am sure you can install RDC:
  http://www.rdesktop.org/
  
  I would expect there to be an ssh client, also, for you know, doing "real" work. troll for troll... ;-)
- KungFuJesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5you can do real work on linux, troll
MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I hope the kids will discover eBay with their laptop and sell it because they see no use for it.

BTW, I'd rather know how emulators like UAE and Fellow will work on it.
- Chairboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4But then however will they leave feedback about how the transaction went?
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Perhaps they could log on to ebay. And sell products they create. Directly to consumers. Which would elminate the middle men. Bringing viable profit to regions.
- JrGhoull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3these kids have ton of use for it. they will be able to do homework, write stories, poems....learn about anything they want to learn about using the internet...mess around a bit with digital photography, programming, whatever they want
  
  i'm sure that one way or another people who want an olpc enough will get one, but dont be so discusting to suggest that the kids getting these things will be so dumb that they wont see what a great opportunity this is for them.
NTolerance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I sure hope a 500Mhz CPU could emulate the NES. The 16Mhz CPU in the Gameboy Advance can emulate Super Mario Bros at full speed w/ sound.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7You're talking about the GBA version of SMB right? It runs using special emulator that reroutes the NES sprite commands to the GBA hardware sprite engine, so it cheats a little. Without a hardware sprite engine, a 33-40Mhz CPU would be needed.
  
  But yeah, I get what you're saying...
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Edit - DelMonte posted first. (And better.)
  
  Wikipedia says the GBA's 'emulation' was done by hardware.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wootery, that's for the Gameboy games... The GBA includes a Z80 just for that, the NES ran on a 6502 cpu, completely different chip.
  
  Super Mario Bros DX on the Gameboy Color is a well done port using the source code. I'm not sure if the GBA version is a port though, since there are many other NES games available in the Famicom mini series (forgot the US name for this).
- Nitron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah. My 200MHz iPaq has no problem emulating almost any NES game with sound. My 312MHz Palm device struggles on SNES games with sound, though. The processor in the NES was extremely simple and had a clockspeed of less than 2MHz. Therefore, this article is not overly surprising.
- NTolerance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was referring to PocketNES, which uses software to emulate a good number of NES games at full speed w/ sound. A 33-40Mhz CPU is not necessaary.
  
  http://www.pocketnes.org/
- moofree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ntolerance was probably referring to PocketNES.
  
  Edit: He beat me to it
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nice, I didn't know about PocketNES.
  
  Still, I'm 99% sure that it's using the GBA's hardware sprite engine, and that saves a lot of CPU cycles, so my point is still valid. Without a hardware sprite engine you couldn't make it run on a 16Mhz CPU at full speed.
- mburns, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The laptop is only 366Mhz and 128MB of memory (that prototype might have 256MB, but the final will only have 128MB for sure). The 1GB the poster mentions is the filesystem. It will have 512MB of flash memory with a compression filesystem that may give up to 1GB worth of space.
goatswii, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12So this is for MacBook users interested in upgrading?
- robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Or Windows users interested in not being asked 40 times a month to prove they're using a legal software.
yakk0dotorg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3ok, so a pc with hardware from a few years ago can emulate games that were able to be emulated at full speed around the same time? someone hold me back. I'm about to burst with excitement. Really.
- robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hear that? That was the sound of the whole point of the OLPC flying right past you.
rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6100 dollars is what my ibook g4 is worth today..i think and less memory.
- UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Ill give you $150 for it.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I'd give you $200!
- lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2$250!
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One dollar.
nme94, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Long life for Mario Bros, long life for Negroponte's laptop
Etchance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.idsoftware.com/games/doom/doom-ultimate/index.php?game_section=sysreq

It might be close, but I'd guess the laptop can probably run doom, barely.
Corrosionx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about SNES?
swdc17, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Wow, a 500MHz processor can run DOOM? AND an NES emulator??? Who would have thought??

I was running those on my 486 33MHz. I think the 500MHz proc can handle these. Oh and maybe windows 95??
- damentz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Lots of people don't remember the days where a 150mhz processor was powerful. I think Doom II choked on a 30mhz processor, then my dad upgraded it to a 90mhz and it ran at full speed. Thats when people still bought Packard Bells.
  
  Also, processors have gotten a lot more efficient per clock cycle, keep in mind a 2 ghz core 2 processor is faster than a 4ghz pentium 4. The ghz race is over, its all about efficiency per watt.
dinh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Watch the world obesity rates grow.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Did this news talk about giving 2 big macs a day to third-world habitants?
- theWrkncacnter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No they'll exercise because they have to crank the handle to play mario
ravenofwinter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Get back to me when it can emulate say a N64 game. Or Playstation.
- daxsymbiont, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it looks capable to run n64 emus.
- magixx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well the PSP can now emulate PS1 Games.
- TheRingmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1An N64 or any other post 16bit console game would be terrible on a laptop
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uhh... I emulate N64 games on my lappy all the time... all you need is a good gamepad.
  As for what kind of gamepad, I highly recommend Saitek. Their gamepads are awesome, and the programming software is brilliant.
  And no, I don't work for them. :P
antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bad title. It should be "Super Mario Bros." Mario Bros is the first game before its series got popular.
DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12What's so wrong about the possibility of poor kids having fun once in a while?

You guys always give extreme example such as a kid that didn't eat for two days and is given a laptop instead of food.

But in reality there's a myriad of situations between that and our fat north-american lives. Some kids and adults may have the basic minimum covered (food, water, shelter), but there's more to life than that. Learning and playing, these people should have access to that too. They may well learn new things that will help them improve their situation, and be able to occasionally play will make the hard parts more tolerable and give them hope of a better life.
- MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How about giving them a skateboard, football or a Reversi boardgame instead? Once they become nerds, will they be able to afford glasses?
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"How about giving them a skateboard, football or a Reversi boardgame instead?"
  
  A skateboard mostly works well on asphalt and well maintained roads, and not every kids are interested in skate-boards. And why don't you give me all of your video-games and play on a Reversi board-game for all of 2007?
  
  I'm not talking about giving them a GameBoy, the games are a bonus to the laptop, which could be used as its basis as a learning and mind expanding tool.
  
  "Once they become nerds, will they be able to afford glasses?"
  
  This is a joke, right?
poxonyou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's nothing impressive about a $100 laptop now being able to run 15-20 year old games. I can run NES and SNES games on my $100 DS Lite (via M3, NesDS, and SnezziDS).
hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1id guess that in 3-5yrs every school kid in the world will have one...networkin sonds interesin.....pictures
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=olpc
Nysul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My freaking cell phone can emulate nes and snes games.
Cerealkillr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Does this really need to be this long?
jirwin304, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3While all of you bash how the laptop should obviously be able to play the NES games, I think the biggest accomplishment is what it took to get the emulator running on the machine. Check the two guys blog posts out:

http://staff.osuosl.org/~morgabra/blog/?p=11
http://shell.osuosl.org/~schonstal/?p=4

Before you diss on this anymore, check out what they did. Some pretty cool stuff.
MaXPL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1okay wtf it is definitly time to upgrade my pc.

i paid 2500 2 years ago, and now theyre making 100 dollar laptops with a 1 gig of memory? wtf man. i want one of these right now.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1memory being storage space, i'd hate to have a 1gb one. Can fit what, windows & a single TV episode?
Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wonder if it could run a Super Nintendo emulator.
MikeMacMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The specs listed are totally wrong.
They really are:
CPU clock speed: 366 Mhz
DRAM memory: 128 MiB dynamic RAM

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification
PJBonoVox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Flawlessly? The framerate in Mario 3 was rubbish.
mokeyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Hindu Wardrobe

I used to run SNES games in ZSNES and MAME roms years ago on a P166 with 16 meg of RAM running in DOS and it worked fine. It also ran Quake just great and Quake two with the detail turned down. The quality of the emulator is the main factor.

It's a bit of lame story to be honest. People seem to have very short memories.

@MikeMacMan

That sounds a little more realistic.
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