This month’s MagPi is out and contains the following articles:
- Using Nanpy to connect your Raspberry Pi to an Arduino
- Using the Ino command line toolkit to do command line Arduino programming.
- Advanced operation of the camera module
- Timekeeping with a real-time clock
- Part 3 of the Pi Matrix series
- Playing historic games on the MAME emulator
- An introduction to XML
- Build a Pi OS from the ground up
- Assembly programming with Risc OS (continued from last issue)
- A review of a book on Charm programming
- An introduction to Python iterators and generators.
Hmmm… since an already compiled, pre-configured, optimised version of Mame4All is available in the Pi Store I’m not sure why anyone would want to go to all that hassle of downloading and compiling AdvMame? I guess he wrote the article before it was available?
Yeah, I think normally articles are written a couple of months before. Guess it gives them time to put it together. But sometimes it makes it out-of-date. Take, for example, the 10 projects made easy in Linux User and Developer this month – they really should’ve had a camera module project in there but I guess that was either not out or not out long when it was written.
Unfortunately that’s why the whole concept of a magazine especially related to computing is dying out. Everything just moves too fast. Respect to MagPi for a great publication though, they do a good job.
It was an expanded Forum post written just after the Pi was released (there were no emulator Binaries available at all). I could have included information regarding cross-compiling, including a dispmanx back end or other additions but these would be difficult to the average user/beginner and the space for the Article is obviously limited. But the main aim was for users to learn about computers/code, compile their own software (the primary reasoning behind the Raspberry Pi’s release) but actually have something fun to use once completed.