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Building a Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Machine – Part 3 Adding Games

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 by castaway
A Raspberry Pi and Gamepad

We’ve been enjoying our Raspberry Pi retro games machine and now we’re ready to load up all our old favourite games, we just need the ROMs, where can we get them?…Woah there, not so fast, there’s a problem. 
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Retro Electronic Games: Bambino Lucky Puck

August 26, 2016August 27, 2016 by castaway
The Lucky Puck Ice Hockey electronic game by Bambino close up of the vacuum fluorescent display. .

Much like mobile phones today electronic games were status symbols to young gamers in the 80s. Bambino’s Lucky Puck may not have earned you instant respect but it had a secret weapon… 
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New Retro: Snake ’97 for Mobile

August 23, 2016August 24, 2016 by castaway
Snake 97 playing Snake 2.

Early mobile phones may not have been ‘smart’ but they did have Snake and they fitted in your pocket. Read on to see how you can get proper retro Snake on your modern phone. 
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Recently Retro: The Code Red Worm

August 20, 2016August 24, 2016 by castaway
A website defaced by the Code Red worm

Fortune favours the brave. Not for email users receiving random pictures of Anna Kournikova in early 2001 it didn’t…and that was just the start. 
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Classic Joysticks: Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro

August 15, 2016August 15, 2016 by castaway
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The SideWinder Force Feedback Pro is a classy old timer retro joystick. It’s Well built, comfortable and available cheap on eBay, sounds good, but there is a problem… 
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New Nintendo Mini NES to have Extra Retro HDMI Modes

August 13, 2016August 14, 2016 by castaway
Don't mess with these guys, they'll wipe the floor with you.

Get ready to turn the nostalgia dial up to 100%, it sounds like the new Nintendo NES Mini will have with some interesting built in retro display modes. 
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Take to the High Seas with your C64

August 12, 2016 by castaway
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Fresh from clearing the Mid-Atlantic of enemy ships with our trusty ZX81 we’re taking to the waves again, this time with Battleships on the Commodore 64. 
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Take to the High Seas with your ZX81

August 10, 2016August 12, 2016 by castaway
Some Sinclair ZX81 code.

It’s the summer holidays, your mate’s gone to Skegness for the week, it looks like rain, there’s only one thing for it, let’s fire up the ZX81 and type in a game. 
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Retro Games: Doom Shareware

August 9, 2016August 9, 2016 by castaway
The Doom Shareware Status Bar.

Taking on the hoards of hell never felt so good as it did with Doom Shareware. It was fun, free and politically incorrect. What’s not to like?  
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Retro Tech: The Sinclair Oxford 300 Calculator

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 by castaway
The display on a Sinclair Oxford 300 calculator.

If you think Sinclair just made home computers (and dodgy electric cars) think again. They also made calculators that took the fear and loathing out of mathematics in the mid 70s.  
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