Further Deck Kiosk progress

We have a display! And after some effort, I can make the OS actually recognise it!

So, getting it to all work nicely took some effort. Raspberry Pi OS didn't seem to be able to properly detect the monitor, so what I ended up doing was diving into the bootloader and basically putting a line in the cmdline.txt saying "hey actually yes there's a monitor on the first HDMI port and it's this resolution".

Then sound didn't work also but I seem to have fixed that by switching to pulseaudio instead of pipewire. I've got a video on some of my socials of it working if you're curious.

So now we're basically complete except for the enclosure. And I got a shipping notification for my acrylic sheets so that will be forthcoming.

Interesting conversations with Internet Janitor about some Decker changes. In the git there's been recently added the ability to use the danger zone to open a new deck and transfer over to running that one. Which means in theory I could build the launcher itself in Decker instead of using desktop icons. There's probably enough capability in the danger zone that I could even handle the floppy disk stuff by shelling out to run mount commands. So I'm thinking that while desktop icons work well enough initially, I may find myself writing a deck browser of sorts in Decker. Feels much more of a true Deck Kiosk that way.

We shall see what comes. I may need a break (or to just play and maybe try some other decks out) and then when my dad's got more time we'll consider building the enclosure.

Then there's my other Decker projects. I've got EX3 in progress, and I should get back to the point and click idea I was working on at some point. I've also got the notion of making an FMV game in Decker, or at least a short one. I think that might be a Dec(k)-Month project if I haven't started it before then.

I have also considered an FMV game in Decker on floppy disks, spanned over multiple floppy disks, that asks you to swap disks as it progresses. I think it is doable and the idea has a weird appeal. It's art.