Reddit user Angryspec spent a few months adapting a SNES console and some control pads so that he could emulate the SNES and other gaming consoles. More details and pictures of the build are available here.
Category: Emulation
Building an Amiga A1200 for $40 with Raspberry PI and UAE4All
Jon Aasenden took a disused Raspberry Pi, some battery packs and installed UAE4All to give him a portable Amiga. You can read how he did it here.
Using a Hover gesture board with the Raspberry Pi
The team behind Hover, a gesture input device, have put together a tutorial, which uses a Pi in conjunction with an Arduino Leonardo, which guides you through using a Hover board to be a controller for PiMame/PiPlay. Take a look at…
Run Windows on the Raspberry Pi (sort of)
Greg McCarthy decided to see if it was possible to run Windows on the Pi. He succeeded with versions 1.01, 2.1 and 2.11. He also used someone else’s instructions to get Windows 95 running as well. All the versions use Qemu to…
Play PacMan on a Raspberry Pi while waiting for the bus
Norwegian makers Norwegian Creations, HK-reklame and Trondheim Makers wanted to advertise the Trondheim Maker Faire. They hit upon the idea of installing a Raspberry Pi and a screen inside bus stops so that people could play PacMan while they waited.…
Upgrading a Commodore 64 with a Raspberry Pi
John Reder has taken the shell of an old Commodore 64 and placed a Raspberry Pi inside. Using PiMAME he has emulated the C64 and now has a working system! Read more here or view the video below.
Emulate rare and retro operating systems on the Raspberry Pi
Apologies for the lack of updates over the past few days, I’ve been on a holiday from blogging but I’m back now! Make has done a nice round-up of retro and rare OSs that you can run on the Raspberry…
Open Source PC XT-compatible virtual machine for the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation have just blogged about an excellent virtual machine that runs on the Raspberry Pi. It was written by Adrian Cable and is at an early stage at the moment. The end result he’s hoping for is that the…
#RaspberryPi inside a Gameboy console
This isn’t the first time this has been done, but it’s certainly the most complete solution I’ve seen. Anton MacArthur has taken an old Gameboy handheld console, a 3″ LCD screen and a USB SNES controller and done some hackery…
Synergy on the #RaspberryPi
Adafruit has published a new tutorial to enable you to use Synergy on your Pi. Synergy is a free and open source software that allows multiple computers to share a mouse and keyboard. One of the computers that the keyboard and…