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KIM-1 to COSMAC Elf Conversion — Sort Of

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Al Williams

In the mid-1970s, if you had your own computer, you probably built it. If you had a lot of money and considerable building skill, you could make an Altair 8800 for about $395 — better than the $650 to have it built. However, cheaper alternatives were not far behind.

In 1976, Popular Electronics published plans for a computer called the COSMAC Elf which you could build for under $100, and much less if you had a good junk box. The design was simple enough that you could build it on a piece of perf board or using wire wrap. We …read more

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Completely Owning the Dreamcast Add-on You Never Had

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Elliot Williams

If you’ve got a SEGA Dreamcast kicking around in a closet somewhere, and you still have the underutilized add-on Visual Memory Unit (VMU), you’re in for a treat today. If not, but you enjoy incredibly detailed hacks into the depths of slightly aged silicon, you’ll be even more excited. Because [Dmitry Grinberg] has a VMU hack that will awe you with its completeness. With all the bits in place, the hacking tally is a new MAME emulator, an IDA plugin, a never-before ROM dump, and an emulator for an ARM chip that doesn’t exist, running Flappy Bird. All in a …read more

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This Keychain-Sized Game Boy Emulator Is our 90s Dream Come True

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Samantha Cole

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Hackaday Prize Entry: Gaming Done Tiny with Keymu

Posted on June 30, 2017 by John Baichtal

The world’s tiniest Game Boy Color, introduced at the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference, is a work of art. This microscopic game console inspired [c.invent] to create how own gaming handheld. His Keymu project on hackaday.io describes an open source, keychain-sized gaming handheld that its builder claims is really the world’s tiniest. How did he make it smaller? It’s a miniature Game Boy Advance SP, and it folds up in a handy clamshell case.

While he’s a Pi fan, [c.invent] felt the Pi Zero was too big and clunky for what he had in mind–a keychain-sized handheld. Only the Intel Edison was …read more

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Intel Fires Warning Shot At Qualcomm and Microsoft Over Windows 10 ARM Emulation

Posted on June 9, 2017 by BeauHD

MojoKid quotes a report from HotHardware: Qualcomm and Microsoft are on the verge of ushering in a new class of always-connected mobile devices that run full-blown Windows 10. The two are enabling ARM-based Snapdragon 835 processors to run Windows 10 w… Continue reading Intel Fires Warning Shot At Qualcomm and Microsoft Over Windows 10 ARM Emulation→

How The 1997 ‘NESticle’ Emulator Redefined Retro Gaming

Posted on May 6, 2017 by EditorDavid

Slashdot reader martiniturbide writes: For those who lived the console emulator and retrogaming boom on the late 90’s there is this interesting article about the story of NESticle posted at Motherboard. NESticle was a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES… Continue reading How The 1997 ‘NESticle’ Emulator Redefined Retro Gaming→

Discontinued Nintendo Consoles and Raspberry Pis

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Brian Benchoff

Nintendo has discontinued a Classic gaming console. It’s a pity, yes, but with the release of Nintendo’s new gaming console, they probably have bigger fish to fry. That doesn’t mean these discontinued Nintendo consoles will die a slow, miserable death locked away in a closet; at least one of them will live on with the heart of a Raspberry Pi.

This is a project [Liam] has been working on since 2012, just after he got the first edition of the Raspberry Pi. While some people were figuring out how to stuff the Pi inside a Nintendo Entertainment System or a …read more

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Ask Slashdot: Can Linux Run a GPU-Computing Application Written For Windows?

Posted on April 2, 2017 by EditorDavid

dryriver writes:
I have been told that Linux can run Windows software using Wine or perhaps a VM. What happens if that Windows software is a GPU-computing application — accessing the GPU through HLSL/GLSL/CUDA/OpenCL or similar interfaces?

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The Best Pi Emulation Console You Can Build

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Brian Benchoff

By far the most popular use for a Raspberry Pi is an emulation console. For an educational device, that’s fine – someone needs to teach kids how to plug a USB cable into a device and follow RetroPi tutorials on the Internet. These emulation consoles usually have one significant drawback: they’re ugly, with wires spilling everywhere. Instead of downloading a 3D printed Pi enclosure shaped like a Super Nintendo, [depthperfection] designed his own. It looks great, and doesn’t have a donglepocalypse hanging out the back.

The biggest factor in building an enclosure for a Pi Zero is how to add …read more

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Raspberry Pi-Based Game Boy Emulator

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Brian Benchoff

The most popular use for a Raspberry Pi, by far, is video game emulation. We see this in many, many forms from 3D printed Raspberry Pi cases resembling the original Nintendo Entertainment System to 3D printed Raspberry Pi cases resembling Super Nintendos. There’s a lot of variety out there for Raspberry Pi emulation, but [moosepr] is taking it to the next level. He’s building the smallest Pi emulation build we’ve ever seen.

This build is based on the Pi Zero and a 2.2″ (0.56 dm) ili9341 TFT display. This display has a resolution of 240×320 pixels, which is close enough …read more

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