Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
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
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
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
On the 6th September 2012, Darren Wall of readonlymemory.vg launched a Kickstarter campaign for a funding to create a book called Sensible Software 1986–1999. The definitive biography of Sensible Software, one of the world’s most pioneering and best-loved games companies, and the flagship title for Read-Only Memory, a new publishing company specialising in high-quality video … Read more
RetroPie is a system to build / configure and launch emulators on the Raspberry Pi. 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now out – Changes since 3.0 beta 4 include: Input configuration improvements / fixes / optimisations Basic joypad control in RetroPie-Setup / emulator prelaunch menus. Make libretro Fuse default spectrum emulator (for easier joypad control) … Read more
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 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
Version 3.0.0 BETA 3 Integrated controls configuration for EmulationStation and RetroArch – On first start EmulationStation will ask for controls to be configured, and will then also configure RetroArch based on your choices. Note that there will be a delay after selecting OK whilst this is done – this will be improved later to give … Read more
It’s the final week of this latest venture by Bitmap Books. This Kickstarter has several stretch goals, the highlight of which has to be The Spectrum Works album by veteran musician Allister Brimble. Tracks on the CD will include modern remixes of classic ZX Spectrum tracks such as Robocop (Jonathan Dunn), Agent X (Tim Follin) … Read more
Xubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) Joggler Image v1.6 – 02/02/2017): Download the ext4 version (997 MB) md5sum 22b636115cb437ae7f8903d00160892b Download the Btrfs compressed version (1.2 GB) md5sum 5d3fb4889368de547c1f64e221951eca The Btrfs/ext4 images require a minimum of a 4GB USB stick. Ubuntu Base/Server 14.04 LTS (Trusty) Joggler Image v1.6 – 02/02/2017): Download the ext4 version (403 MB) md5sum c873fa4efda86b461b90f46bfd336d0d Download the … Read more