It’s very much a pre-release candidate – if someone does donate, they’ll be getting a (pretty complete) work-in-progress. This isn’t something Hexxeh would have been releasing as a finished article.

Raspberry Pi’s don’t have CD drives silly!

If we reach the goal, I’ll release the image for download for everyone (and then go hide from the barrage of people complaining it’s too slow to play Angry Birds).

It’s not really a ransom at all, I just want to help a friend raise some money for charity and I figured it was a nice reward for hitting a somewhat lofty goal.

On the other hand, you should be aware that you aren’t going to be using this to get work done, it’s very much a “look what we can do” type demo. You’re talking perhaps 45 seconds to boot and then a further minute or two just to login. Loading Google? Another few minutes.

With some tasty graphical acceleration, however? It’s gonna fly in comparison. There just so happens to be some work on that happening as I type, so perhaps in a few weeks or months, we’ll see a faster more usable version.

Hopefully releasing this version will pique the interest of some more developers to join in with this effort, too!

We’re pulling in the same rpi-firmware that rpi-update does, so if your dongle works when you’ve used rpi-update, you should find it works with this too in theory.

But again, please don’t expect to actually be able to browse much with this..! :)

oh i didnt read properly i see os, wicked

I believe they’re playing every level properly!

James here, the streamer that Hexxeh mentioned.

Every game with be done with no shortcuts or cheats, but we will be skipping emeralds on alot of games, the only exception being Sonic R as it’s really short even with emeralds.