![]() The emulator I found for this was BeebEm, which required downloading, extracting and building, in much the same way SDLTRS did.Īgain, I don’t yet have anything running inside this emulator (my main memories are of Logo, Chuckie Egg and Elite), but will try to do something fun, at some point. I used to love playing games on the ZX Spectrum (my brother and I shared a Spectrum+, as pictured here). While the TRS-80 and BBC Micro were mostly (for me, at least) about learning, the Spectrum was (almost) all about fun. We used it mostly for games, but I do remember having lots of fun using it with the Currah Microspeech device to synthesise something approaching human speech. The Spectrum emulator I installed – and this was super simple, no building needed – was Fuse. One really good thing about running Manic Miner via X11 is the lack of support for sound (I couldn’t hear the ghastly, discordant 8-bit music that plays once the game has loaded -).Ītari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive, Sony Playstation, MAME and more… Here’s a screenshot of Manic Miner in action: Once installed, I went looking for ROMs of games I used to play. The final touch for my retro computing system was an incredible all-round emulator called RetroArch. To install this and the EmulationStation graphical front-end, I used the very handy RetroPie-Setup script. I mainly installed this piece as my wife cut her gaming teeth on the Legend of Zelda on the NES, and that seemed the simplest way to get that working. I also wanted to get MAME on the device, as there are a number of classic arcade games I wanted to be able to play, too. ![]() The graphics generated by RetroArch are not piped via X11, so I don’t have any screenshots for that. But the games seem to look and play as well as I remember. ![]() For me it’s just amazing that it’s possible to pack in this kind of capability into such a small (and cheap!) device. I suppose it’s not necessarily the mark of progress – or indeed very surprising – that over the course of 30 years you can shrink the capabilities of all these computers into a credit-card sized device, but it' is nonetheless very cool.
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