Related: something else they have in common (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-22 20:35 (#40P) This article is related: a list of things youngsters won't be doing this summer (It's a relatively nostalgic look back at England in the 80s/90s). http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/nostalgia/summer-holiday-children-not-doing-7508570 Spending endless time in front of a C=64 to play computer games is one of the items. But actually, I can think of worse things than giving your kid a Raspbi and a soldering iron and a project book, and letting him or her get into electronics. Unless he burns the house down of course.By the way, FIRST POST! Boo ya. Re: Related: something else they have in common (Score: 1) by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-08-23 08:05 (#40R) While an excellent idea, note that Commodire Pi is at alpha stage, at best. Not quite usable at the moment. You may be better off with an emulator such as vice if you just want C64.Or get RetroPie which supports:Amiga (UAE4All)Apple II (LinApple)Apple Macintosh (Basilisk II)Armstrad CPC (CPC4RPi)Arcade (PiFBA, Mame4All-RPi)Atari 800Atari 2600 (RetroArch)Atari ST/STE/TT/FalconC64 (VICE)CaveStory (NXEngine)Doom (RetroArch)Duke Nukem 3DFinal Burn Alpha (RetroArch)Game Boy Advance (gpSP)Game Boy Color (RetroArch)Game Gear (Osmose)Intellivision (RetroArch)MAME (RetroArch)MAME (AdvMAME)NeoGeo (GnGeo)NeoGeo (Genesis-GX, RetroArch)Sega Master System (Osmose)Sega Megadrive/Genesis (DGEN, Picodrive)Sega Mega-CD (Picodrive)Sega 32X (Picodrive)Nintendo Entertainment System (RetroArch)N64 (Mupen64Plus-RPi)PC Engine / Turbo Grafx 16 (RetroArch)Playstation 1 (RetroArch)ScummVMSuper Nintendo Entertainment System (RetroArch, PiSNES, SNES-Rpi)Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Fuse)PC / x86 (rpix86)Z Machine emulator (Frotz)
Re: Related: something else they have in common (Score: 1) by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-08-23 08:05 (#40R) While an excellent idea, note that Commodire Pi is at alpha stage, at best. Not quite usable at the moment. You may be better off with an emulator such as vice if you just want C64.Or get RetroPie which supports:Amiga (UAE4All)Apple II (LinApple)Apple Macintosh (Basilisk II)Armstrad CPC (CPC4RPi)Arcade (PiFBA, Mame4All-RPi)Atari 800Atari 2600 (RetroArch)Atari ST/STE/TT/FalconC64 (VICE)CaveStory (NXEngine)Doom (RetroArch)Duke Nukem 3DFinal Burn Alpha (RetroArch)Game Boy Advance (gpSP)Game Boy Color (RetroArch)Game Gear (Osmose)Intellivision (RetroArch)MAME (RetroArch)MAME (AdvMAME)NeoGeo (GnGeo)NeoGeo (Genesis-GX, RetroArch)Sega Master System (Osmose)Sega Megadrive/Genesis (DGEN, Picodrive)Sega Mega-CD (Picodrive)Sega 32X (Picodrive)Nintendo Entertainment System (RetroArch)N64 (Mupen64Plus-RPi)PC Engine / Turbo Grafx 16 (RetroArch)Playstation 1 (RetroArch)ScummVMSuper Nintendo Entertainment System (RetroArch, PiSNES, SNES-Rpi)Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Fuse)PC / x86 (rpix86)Z Machine emulator (Frotz)