RetroPie 3.1 is released

After a couple of months of work since 3.0, we are pleased to announce the next version of RetroPie – v3.1. Changes include a new default theme called “Carbon” which is much less memory hungry than the previous, new Arcade emulators (lr-mame2003 and lr-fba-next), and new GUI configuration tools. We now also provide images for … Read more

RetroPie 3.0 is released

After 6 months of hard work we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.0. This retro-gaming project brings together a collection of popular emulators for those computers and consoles that you grew up with from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, all wrapped up and ready to run on the famous Raspberry Pi. From … Read more

jwills.co.uk website update

Have been updating this site a little bit. I launched jwills.co.uk a short while ago as a way to connect things I work on in one place, and act as a bit of a portfolio site. I also had an old Magento blog, and a small website for the O2 Joggler which I wanted to … Read more

Book: The Bitmap Brothers: Universe

On the 16th April 2015, Darren Wall of readonlymemory.vg launched a Kickstarter campaign for funding to create a book called The Bitmap Brothers: Universe. The Bitmap Brothers: Universe will be the official history of the visionary British software house. The book will combine an authoritatively written inside story, thoroughly researched via new, first-hand interviews with The Bitmap … Read more

RetroPie

RetroPie-Setup is a shell script to setup the Raspberry Pi with several emulators, various cores, and EmulationStation as graphical front end (It also can be installed on a PC running Ubuntu and has some support for the Odroid C1). Bootable pre-made images are available from https://retropie.org.uk/ for those that want a ready to go system. … Read more

XBMC4Xbox – Media player software

From the XBMC4Xbox Wiki: XBMC4Xbox (which was the original part of the XBMC project – now known as Kodi – and formerly named Xbox Media Center) is a free and open source media player software made solely for the first-generation Xbox video-game console. Other than the audio / video playback and media center functionality of … Read more

Website: ExoticA

ExoticA is an Amiga and retro gaming/computer music interest wiki including search-able computer music collections, game and demo scene information and plenty more. The website started as a simple static site with some scripted parted, that was then migrated to MediaWiki in 2006 for easier maintaining of content. One of the main features of the … Read more

Book: Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium

On the 15th May 2015, Sam Dyer (http://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/) launched a Kickstarter Campaign to create a visual book all about the ZX Spectrum. Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium will focus on the visual side of the computer; from in-game pixel art to game maps to box artwork, the book will be crammed full of beautiful … Read more

A Temporal Shift album by Uncle Art

Sunday, 28 June 2015 Just two weeks left to back this new Kickstarter funded album by Dave Lowe, which is to feature remakes of classic Amiga, Atari ST and C64 soundtracks. The highlight of the project will be a full orchestral performance of the Frontier soundtrack by the Chamber Orchestra Of London at the famous … Read more

RetroPie 3.0 beta 3 is released

RetroPie is a system to build / configure and launch emulators on the Raspberry Pi. RetroPie 3.0 beta 3 has been released. Changes include: Integrated controls for emulationstation / retroarch – on first start  emulationstation will ask for controls to be configured, and will then also configure retroarch based on your choices. Note there will … Read more

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