Great new OS for RockPi4C, TwisterOS Armbian

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Introducing RockRiotMenu, a collection of pre-compiled apps and games for RK3399 and RK3326 Hardware.
List of Games included:

• Rick-Dangerous
• Doom 1
• Eduke32 (Duke Nukem 3d)
• OpenBOR
• Quake3
• CannonBall
• Flashback
• Cave-Story
• Shadow-Warrior
• Keen
• Quake2
• Diablo1 (GOSPA)
• Quake1
• Half-Like
• Doom2
• Wolfenstein-3D

Also, Moonlight-Embedded

krishenriksen/RockRiotMenu

Many thanks @kreal from the TwisterOS Armbian team.

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A new TwisterOS Armbian beta3 update is about to be released soon. Stay tuned.

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Updated: (1-22-2021). TwisterOS Armbian beta 3 is here:

TwisterOS Armbian beta 3:

• A Fully featured fast and lightweight OS for RK3399 SBC’s that works out-of-the-box.
  (Currently is better supported on RockPi4B, RockPi4C & RockPro64 boards)
• RK3399 boards w/4Gb RAM and a minimum of 16Gb microSD/eMMC is strongly recommended.
• Armbian focal 20.04.1 LTS aarch64 based
• 5.9.14 Kernel
• XFCE 4.16 DE, XFCE uses Xfwm4 VM
• Latest Panfrost w/ HW acceleration on desktop
• OpenGL 3.1 is also supported with fully updated Mesa 21.1.0
• Kodi and MPV built-in with HW acceleration support
• Docker Container support via Chromium browser for watching streaming services like
  Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, Hulu, Spotify.(requires to manually install a script)
• Theme switcher fully integrated into all themes in Theme Twister App. (Reboot after change required)
• Retro gaming emulators included like PPSSPP, DOSBOX-X, Mednaffe, Mesen, Mupen64Plus, PCSX ReARMed,
  Retroarch (Tested functional, but not included), Redream, ScummVM, and many more…
• BOX86 with latest updates included
• uSD and eMMC booting supported. (RK3399 - NanoPi-M4 requires re-seat of HDMI cable on power on due to firmware limitations, and supports MicroSD at this time)
• Several useful apps included on image such as: Steam, Lutris, Discord, My Android,
  Wine Desktop, USBImager, LibreOffice suite, Transmission, Gimp, MELD, VLC Player, Audacious, etc.
• 9 OpenGL games are also included for your enjoyment.

Known issues:

• Bluetooth audio is not working
• Kodi repository is missing and needs to be installed manually
  (sudo apt install kodi-repository-kodi)
• Docker Container requires to apply some extra steps to fix a no HDMI audio issue.
  (Fixed via pavucontrol, and selecting proper output device)

General Instructions:

• Download RK3399 image from twisteros.com
• Prepare your storage media for flashing
• Flash image with Balena-Etcher or USBImager
• Edit /boot/armbianEnV.txt file and select correct DTB file that matches your RK3399 board
  (Default DTB is RK3399-RockPi4B) | Case sensitive! | Example: rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4c.dtb
• After first boot, resize EXT4 partition using Disks utility included
• Default password is: asdasd
• Overclocking and hardware profile support out-of-the-box.

Download it from our main page:
https://twisteros.com/twisterarmbian.html

Enjoy it.

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TwisterOS Armbian beta3 supports popular streaming services as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ via chromium browser.

Just follow easy instructions from github webpage. Many thanks to Monka from twisterOS armbian team for this great docker container:

monkaBlyat/docker-chromium-armhf

Known issue: No HDMI audio on Docker Container with Chromium browser

To fix:

- sudo apt install paprefs
- sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pulse-13.99.1 /usr/lib/pulse-13.99
- paprefs
- Reboot

Make sure after executing paprefs, all settings matches as shown below:

- Reboot
- Enjoy

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Updated(01-25-2021) First Official Release of TwisterOS Armbian V1.0

Download if from official website:
https://twisteros.com/twisterarmbian.html

[Mike_01]

Hello. Can’t set the screen resolution higher than 1920x1080. I need 1440p. It works with official radxa Deb9 disro only. Pelease help.

[igorp]

It works with official radxa

If you want to have this screen size on Armbian hardware interface which is very different in its core, you have to support Armbian or hire some kernel developer to make a contribution of your choice to the public software. Someone has to develop / add support for it and its estimated from a few hours to few days of work.

Or use official Radxa hardware interface based OS. You can’t have everything at once.

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All Included apps with TwisterOS Armbian V1.0 :

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Updated(02-06-2021): Twister OS Armbian version 1.1.0 update has been released!
There was a Mesa regression that was causing some Visual Artifacts on PPSSPP en mupen64 emulator with PSP and N64 roms. We have a fix for it, Please download it from official TwisterOS website:

https://twisteros.com/Patches/TwisterOSArmbianV1-1-0Patch.run

Note: Games with box86 and Wine were also affect them. Now after Mesa fix, games such as age of empires 2,dune 2000,diablo 2,warcraft 3 and emperor battle for dune among others are working again.

Version 1.1.0 patch notes:

• Added Mesa driver v20.3 to improve Wine and overall game compatibility
• Added support for EXE file icons and double-clicking to launch with Wine
• Updated PPSSPP launcher & shortcut to use Mesa v20.3

Before Mesa Fix:

After Mesa Fix:

[mo123]

Great work.

Is it possible to build latest Kodi somehow or add some of the kernel, ffmpeg patches to benefit MPV video playback?
LibreELEC from 20 days ago now includes several Rockchip fixes like
8/10 bit H265, 10-bit H264, experimental VP9, 4K@60hz etc.

Rockchip update

https://test.libreelec.tv/

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We have some Videos of Box86 on RK3399 hardware mostly tested on RockPi4C and RockPro64 boards with TwisterOS Armbian V1.0

BOX86 on RK3399: Warcraft 3 and Warcraft 2 BNE TEST

BOX86 on RK3399: Farcry 1 TEST

BOX86 (and ULTRA64) on RK3399: Killer instinct I & II

BOX86 on RK3399 TEST : Claw (1997) and Mark of the Ninja (2012)

BOX86 on OPI4 (RK3399) : Counter Strike 1.6

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PS1/PSX emulator better featured than PPSSPP, runs great too.
Many thanks to Monka from TwisterOS Development team for such great script.

To Download:
https://d19bjv63x2j8ah.cloudfront.net/v2/29866/contents/g52s1bEHcFFA8i1Q/duckstation.sh

Instructions:

• to run/build app:
  ./duckstation.sh

• cd into /duckstation/build-release/bin/ and run it with ./duckstation-qt

• set your bios directory and enjoy great a PSX/PS1 emulation

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Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne video on RockPi4C:

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Counter Strike: Condition Zero on RockPi4C

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ROCK PI 4C: COMMAND & CONQUER: RENEGADE | BOX86 + TWISTER OS ARMBIAN| WINE | 1080P | GAME TEST

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AGE OF EMPIRES 2 on TWISTEROS ARMBIAN w/ BOX86 at 1080p TEST (ROCKPI4B)

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Stunt-Rally 2.26 for RK3399 hardware. Tested it on RockPi4C and RockPro64 4GB.

Download it from:

superpowter77/games_scripts

Instructions:

- Upon download, make it executable:

chmod a+x stunt-rally.sh

- Build it:

./stunt-rally.sh

- Install it:

cd /stuntrally/build/

sudo make install

after that you have a shortcut under games

Many thanks to Monka from the TwisterOS Development team

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TwisterOS Armbian Version 2 will be release soon. Stay tuned.

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Alien Arena on RockPi4C.

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TwisterOS Armbian V2.0 has officially landed.
Available for download from twisteros website:
https://twisteros.com/twisterarmbian.html

Changes from 1.1.0:

• 5.10.21 kernel
• Vivaldi Browser is the default browser with full GPU HW acceleration support(Firefox and Chrome are still included)
• Conky desktop system monitor has been included by default on 2.0.0 release
• TwisterOS diagnostics utility is now included
• Winetricks has been added for better x86 emulation support
• Stable Panfrost/Mesa has been included to have OpenGL games and retroemulation artifacts free.
• Improved GUI responsiveness on XFCE, faster performance on desktop
• Flameshot screenshot utility has been added
• USB Imager has replaced Balena Etcher
• Option to resize partition has been included on desktop
• Chromium-Docker has been updated and no longer requires chmod permissions to run
• New Dark Themes are available via ThemeTwister utility
• Jstest-gtk has been added to have joystick support on retro gaming/openGL games
• Mupen64plus N64 emulator issues with visual glitches/artifacts have been fixed.

Note: There’s no update option available for TwisterOS Armbian 1.1.0. You will need to start from scratch with 2.0.0