Greetings! Let’s install the ZXBaremulator on the micro SD card! On it’s site you don’t have much instructions… it’s not rocket science but you need to figure it on your own how to put everything working. Basically, you need to have a micro SD card with Raspbian / Raspberry PI OS pre-installed (the easiest way […]
Raspberry Pi Zero W with ZXBaremulator – The Hardware Good Evening! Like I said on the previous post I’ve here a Raspberry PI Zero W laying around, the “guinea pig Hardware” for the ZXBaremulator. I also have available a Raspberry PI 2 Model B used for all kind of tests, I’ll evaluate the emulator on
Hello Guys! I finally decided to replace the keyboard face-plate, and do a Recreated ZX Spectrum Mod… it fits and looks gorgeous! The Recreated ZX Spectrum has a ground wire weld to the original face-plate. I didn’t mind damaging the original one because it was already damaged (that’s why I ordered the face-plate in first
Hi there! I finally got one of my most precious childhood memories, The Recreated ZX Spectrum – a ZX Spectrum keyboard in the same shape, size, look and feel of the 80’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum (16K or 48K). My first program was developed in BASIC on one of this machines, and because of that event
EEEPC Trackpad Replacement Hi Guys, Now for something completely different: replace a trackpad on a Asus EEEPC 1000H. This machine as been very useful for my IT working tasks, I bought it in 2008 for less than 300€. After that I upgraded it twice (RAM from 1GB to 2GB – needs BIOS upgrade version 2204
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
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
Well, first idea, add a custom splash screen. I followed the instructions at https://yingtongli.me/blog/2016/12/21/splash.html The splash screen appears correctly, works perfectly! Then, I ran AdvanceMenu for the first time to create the default configuration: advmenu Got all the snapshots of the games from http://www.progettosnaps.net/snapshots/ and uploaded them to the PI at /home/pi/.advance/snap/ After that, I wanted to remove
Well, the Moebius project seems stoped since a year ago, version 3.0.0.is still in beta state, no OS updates, and the latest advanceMame doesn’t install correctly because of missing libraries… I got myself a microSD Card with 64GB, and I’m going with the latest raspbian stretch lite. To delete Moebius, I went (in Windows 10) to
Hello! The first obvious solution was to go with Retropie. Pros: everything is there, from ZX Spectrum to Arcade and 80’s and 90’s consoles emulation, PC/DOS emulation and you can also add Kodi and connect it to your room TV for absolute fun for all the family. Cons: too much stuff… for this project all I
