John Browning over at Engadget has written a great tutorial about using a piece of software called ‘Stella’ to emulate the Atari 2600. He takes you through installing the software and then configuring it to play the ROMs which you…
Category: Emulation
Vintage meets modern in this Raspberry Pi PDP project
Oscar is a great fan of the PDP range of computers, in particular the PDP 8/I. He decided that, instead of getting hold of an existing vintage model, he would build a brand new one by using the Raspberry Pi…
Raspberry Pi brings to life Adventure Time console BMO
Well-loved cartoon series Adventure Time has been used as the basis for a Raspberry Pi project. Mike Barretta 3D printed the case for the unit, which has a Pi inside, and has loaded it up with all kinds of retro gaming…
Duelling pianos with Raspberry Pi play Street Fighter
This is an absolutely incredible project that mixes art and technology. Absolutely astonishing – read on! To celebrate the re-opening of the Maison de la Radio, France’s principal and historical radio building situated in the heart of Paris, a team developed…
Improved emulator performance on the Raspberry Pi 2
The Foundation have blogged about some advances in the field of emulation since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. According to them, the CPU performance of previous models of the Pi meant that only 3rd and 4th generation games…
Home arcade experience with the Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell wanted an authentic arcade experience at home. So, he built a replica of the Street Fighter 2 control console and a metal dance mat and has now hooked up a Raspberry Pi using emulation software. The console and…
A Raspberry Pi VAX cluster
Following on from a previous post in which he showed how the Pi can be used to emulate a mainframe, Andrew Back has now moved on to describing how to turn a couple of Pis into a VAX cluster. He…
Raspberry Pi arcade game emulator in an Atari Lynx
David Hooker has taken an old Atari Lynx handheld computer, ripped the guts out of it and fitted a Raspberry Pi along with a bunch of other electronic components (an amplifier for instance). He’s installed Shea Silverman’s PiPlay and used one of…
Pushing the Raspberry Pi A+ to the limits
Over at Philtopia, Phil has been seeing what the Model A+ can do. He’s installed MAME and tried out various games and also tried (successfully) to watch full HD videos from YouTube. It’s really reassuring how far 256MB of RAM can…
Retro-fit your old Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi
We’ve seen it before: a Gameboy mod with a Pi inside. Well, this Instructable tells you how to do it yourself. Tim G has used a Raspberry Pi Model A and various other, fairly cheap, components in this tutorial which…