Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve played any of the versions of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing over the years, you’ll know that eventually you get to the point where you’ve maxed out your virtual house …read more Continue reading Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers the Gift of Linux
With today’s technology, emulating video game consoles from the 90s or before is trivial. A Raspberry Pi and a controller of some sort is perhaps the easiest and simplest way …read more Continue reading Game Bub Plays ROMs and Cartridges
[Chad Burrow] decided to take on a noble task—building a “retro” style computer and video game console. Only, this one is built using somewhat modern hardware—relying on the grunt of …read more Continue reading Homebrew Retro Console Runs On PIC32
When word first got out that the Chinese board houses were experimenting with full color silkscreens, many in our community thought it would be a boon for PCB art. Others …read more Continue reading ESP32 Powers Single-PCB ZX Spectrum Emulator
Intel has had a deathgrip on the PC world since the standardization around the software and hardware available on IBM boxes in the 90s. And if you think you’re free …read more Continue reading Making Intel Mad, Retrocomputing Edition
YouTuber My Developer Thoughts, a self-confessed middle-aged Software Developer, clearly has a real soft spot for the 6502-based 8-bit era machines such as the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20, for …read more Continue reading Using Kick Assembler and VS Code to write C64 Assembler
When you think about virtualization, you usually think about making some CPU pretend to be another CPU. However, there are sometimes advantages to making a computer pretend to be the …read more Continue reading Emulate a KIM-1 with a Commodore 64
The Pi Pico is a capable microcontroller that can do all kinds of fun and/or useful things. In the former vein, [antirez] has ported a ZX Spectrum emulator to the Pi …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator
The BBC Micro was many peoples’ first exposure to home computing, and thanks to [Dominic Pajak], you can fire up this beloved hardware in WebXR. Is it an emulator? Yes, …read more Continue reading The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated in VR
Apple as a company, has staked most of its future around being a “walled garden” where it controls everything from the hardware up through the user experience. In some ways …read more Continue reading Retro Hackintosh Made from Retro Parts