Let’s try the C64 mini joystick’s with The Spectrum! C64 mini‘s joystick is Retro Games‘s The Joystick. I’ve never had a Commodore 64 or a Commodore Amiga, I’ve jumped from my ZX Spectrum 48K Plus to the IBM compatible Personal Computer (aka PC), first with MSDOS, then MS Windows. On the way some Macs and […]
It arrived two hours ago! It’s The Spectrum unboxing time! Another product from Retro Games! Here are a few photos from unboxing to playing for the first time. I ordered the Spanish / Portuguese version, from Amazon Spain here. Unboxing A box inside the box, with the keyboard layout. The machine itself! Inside the inner
Late November 2024, The Spectrum is being launched worldwide! Another ZX Spectrum 48K replica with a few visual changes, looks amazing, and should revive all those good memories, another blast from the past! It’s emulator based, not a clone nor a Next fork, I’ve pre-order it, I’ll make a review after having the machine. Until
Hello Guys, I decided to share with you my Arcade Cabinet Plans. It’s available here, and through the Downloads section. You have pictures with the dimensions in centimetres, and the Sketchup file. Also, the bezel and marquee on it’s original sizes (TIFF files). Added to the the ZIP file, the X-Arcade Tankstick Template, to personalize
Hi Guys! While managing my backups, I found a document that I wrote 10 or 11 years ago. At the time, with the main goal of building this site. Well, the site is online, but my Arcade System is slightly different from the first version. The Arcade Cabinet is now running Windows 10 Pro 64
Greetings Folks! The Raspberry PI has many options for emulating a ZX Spectrum, and a huge list of other systems (MAME, AMIGA, ATARI, Commodore 64, Nintendo, Playstation 1 & 2, PSP, SEGA, …). One of the most used images for installing an all-in-one system for retro gaming is RetroPie. RetroPie builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch
Arcade Upgrade – Super Resolutions without losing Control.
Hello there! I’ve a Logitech Formula Vibration Feedback Wheel that I used to connect to my Arcade Cabinet, for playing Outrun. Will it work with AdvanceMAME’s PI? I decided to test it. For testing proposes I used a Raspberry PI 3, with an 8GB microSD Card, raspbian stretch lite, basically following the steps presented in
Well, I actually did it! The Arcade Project was finished before Christmas and the child liked it a lot (it has the games she likes playing in “Perdigao’s Multiple Arcade“: Pac-Mania, Out-Run, and all the others). In terms of system configuration, the only thing I added was background music to AdvMENU, you can do this by
Now I connected the Keyboard encoder to the RaspPI. You can find a review of this encoder on Youtube. I’m using 10 buttons and 1 joystick. On the top of the Arcade Controller, I’ll have the joystick on the left side and 6 buttons one the right side, using the Japanese Layout from Slagcoin’s joystick templates. I’ll have
