I have always been fascinated by the raspberry pi’s and always enjoyed pushing them to see how far I can take them or the potential of their hardware by doing various tests to see what could and couldn’t run or see what I can do with them all the way back with the Raspberry pi 3 B+ being my first Raspberry pi I owned and played around with, I have always had many ideas on how I can use them and used them for many tasks. I am a proud Raspberry pi owner with many pi’s over the years and currently using a Raspberry 5 8gb with a NVME drive thanks to the Argon Neo case and NVME expansion on the bottom. Since the Raspberry pi 4 I have compiling many projects for Arm64 so they would have a Arm version and repackage them for various AUR packages to be easily installed, I wouldn’t say I am sort of hero that pioneered and pushed Linux Arm64 support but I would defiantly say I have contributed it out of love as well as reporting a lot of issue reports on compiling issues on software or awesome game/game engine projects if they had any issues compiling or running on the Raspberry pi in general as I have a big passion for it, Linux on Arm hardware and love to contribute to these awesome projects that I love so much so shout out to all the amazing developers making open source game projects and engines for old games!

Recently I have been helping/contributing to box64, thanks to Box64 I am able to run Linux x86_64 binaries on Arm64, I have even updated some AUR packages that only work on x86_64 to install on Arm64 with some x64 lib to patch it so it can run Sonic3Air or Marvel First Alliance 2 powered by the OpenBor engine and even Steam tho Steam don’t work due to 32bit lib issues at the moment but it will download updates so that’s a cool start until I or someone fixes the lib issues which I am sure will happen. for example which is only available on Windows and Linux x64 As well as report issues on Box64. I also know about Fex and have compiled it but I haven’t learnt how it works ect yet but I have been told that the combination of Fex and wine is the combination is either the proper way or easiest way to run Windows 32bit and 64 bit apps on Linux arm64 tho right now I’ve gotten this far with Box64. https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20author%3Acoreybruce

I have also been contributing and doing reports for wine and managed to get wine compiled and running on Arm64, now this isn’t exactly new or not done before, all the hard work goes to the Wine team for this but I noticed for a while that there was only wine for Armv7l (32bit arm) with no package for Linux Arm64 distros so I wanted to help make it happen by compiling and sending in any needed reports to push this forward. I was sadly stuck for a while due to a wineserver issue so I made my report https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57417 And now thanks to the developers hard work I got it recompiled and success it works. While it is in a working state with a unofficial test package made for it the next issue is with wow64 and applications using the experimental wow64 mode for 32bit apps, due to 32bit libs and other 32bit issues they will fail to run but don’t worry I have made a report about this also and working with the developers to hopefully resolve this. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58101

Sadly I would love to try and play Chromiecraft or Tony Hawk: American Wastland with the reTHAWed mod (shout out to both amazing projects at https://www.chromiecraft.com/en/ and https://rethawed.com/ I love these projects especially reTHAWed which for me has a real special place in my childhood memories, you guys rock and there is plenty of others I would Love to shoutout 🤟♥️) Overall with all the new open source projects coming out and more and more either unintentionally going to Arm/Rasperry pi or being supported from the get go is so exciting, I always find myself jumping onto a new project for something I have such good memories, love and passions for that keeps even old games alive or revived in a whole new way because it was either so old that it was dead and hasn’t been touched for years but now breathes new life thanks to the open source community. If you don’t believe me then check out my website, Gitlab repository (LinuxBombay) and my AUR account not the flex. 😜