Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
It’s been close to a year since the last stable release. The truth is, the nightly builds have probably been more stable than the last release as some useful fixes went in soon after. Due to lack of free time, and developers, it’s taken a while to get around to doing another point release but … Read more
We are pleased to announce stable version 3.0.1 of the popular media center platform XBMC for the 1st generation XBOX (now called XBMC4XBOX). A huge amount of work has been put into this, and it features numerous additions and improvements over the last release such as: librtmp Support (http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) to support many online video streaming … Read more
Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) for the Joggler has been released (Joggler image v1.0). Since the last beta release, all packages have been updated to the Natty release versions, as well as re-adding XBMC, Squeezeplay and a VAAPI enabled mplayer as with the other images.
The O2 Joggler images of Xubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Base have been updated to v1.6. As well as Kernel and package roll-ups, this update now has OpenSSH enabled on the Xubuntu image (requested by users for easier access, as the Joggler only has a single external USB port). Make sure you change the default joggler … Read more
The excellent Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi have released their 50th issue (free to download but also available to buy in print). To celebrate they feature the top 50 Raspberry Pi projects as voted for by readers and their panel of judges. We are very pleased to have been included in their top software projects … Read more
The O2 Joggler images of Xubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Base have been updated to v1.5. Changes include Kernel 3.2.80, Kodi 16.1 and Ubuntu package updates. Kodi 16.1 is included in our PPA, so existing users who don’t want to start from a new image can update by doing sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install kodi … Read more
A few bugs slipped into RetroPie 3.8 – most notably the launch commandline for DOSBox/RPIx86 was wrong, causing it to not work when launching DOS games directly from Emulation Station. There was also a problem building the gamecon gpio driver. These issues have been fixed, along with some other changes. NOTE: There are currently problems … Read more
The 3.8 image includes an important firmware/driver update to fix bluetooth lockups on the Raspberry Pi 3. Also included in the 3.8 update are an improved SDL1 dispmanx backend, updates to many of the included emulators, and enhancements to the splashscreen module. It can be downloaded here: https://retropie.org.uk/download/. Installation Instructions can be found here – … Read more
We are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.7! We are releasing RetroPie 3.7 in celebration of the release of our new website https://retropie.org.uk/ and new forum at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/. Many experimental modules have been added. An option was added to easily install the LXDE desktop environment onto the pi (which can be launched from … Read more
RetroPie has a brand new website – https://retropie.org.uk. Although the old site living under http://blog.petrockblock.com has served us well over the last years, the forum was becoming increasingly slow, and the project really needed its own presence. Hopefully you will like what we have come up with – a simple site with general info, and … Read more