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Vegz78 / McAirpos

MakeCode Arcade games in RetroPie, Recalbox 7/8 and Batocera, running natively as ELF executables on Raspberry Pi OS/Linux ARM with 1-2 gamepads
https://Vegz78.github.io/McAirpos
MIT License
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Lights extension wont open(some HW extensions incompatible with RPi) #12

Closed QuadDam closed 3 years ago

QuadDam commented 3 years ago

Hello again, when I use the light extension in Mkaecode to access the neopixels (as my students are downloading to Pygamer) when I download their elf file to pu on our larger arcade machine it gives me an error. I remove the light extension and it disappears. I am running retropi on my mini arcade with a raspi 3B+. Maybe this is not solvable but just thought I would tell you about it.

Vegz78 commented 3 years ago

Hi @QuadDam,

Might it be related to this?: https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-arcade/issues/3045#issuecomment-773822437 https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos/issues/7#issuecomment-773947958

It seems that some of the extensions are compatible only with certain hardware, whereas the web simulator runs most of them, regardless of the hardware being compatible/connected or not.

I have seen some times that extensions are imported, but not used or important to the game project. https://support.microbit.org/support/solutions/articles/19000089673-update-remove-an-extension-from-the-makecode-editor

QuadDam commented 3 years ago

Ah makes sense, would be great to have a block so we could access the gpio pins to play with some addressable lights, maybe in future updates, thanks for your help!

Vegz78 commented 3 years ago

Only mention of GPIO for Raspberry I have ever seen is here: https://forum.makecode.com/t/raspberry-pi-gpio-output

Not sure how hard or if it would be possible to use or modify any of the other hardware extensions, or make such an extension for the Raspberry Pi GPIOs yourself.

But would be great!

Maybe you could try to get @mmoskal's or @peli's etc. attention about a possible way in the above thread on the MakeCode Arcade forum?

QuadDam commented 3 years ago

Interesting, I do run the trinket M0 from the pi to control the lights but thats just power, could be controlled through serial I bet, thanks I will take a look!

Vegz78 commented 3 years ago

Good luck! If you find a solution, it would be great to hear back from you here, or maybe better, on the MakeCode Arcade forum. I believe there are others interested, as well, and it would make MC Arcade on the Raspberry Pi much more interesting for a large pool of devices and users.