The Commercialisation of Retro Gaming
Retro gaming using emulators is quick and easy but in most cases it also breaks copyright law. We tell you how you can keep it legal by keeping it real.
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Emulation
Music-X, Making Music in the 1980s
Making computer music in the 1980s could be an expensive affair but in 1989 Music-X arrived to answer the prayers of bedroom musicians everywhere.
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Building a Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Machine – Part 3 Adding Games
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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Take to the High Seas with your ZX81
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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Building a Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Machine – Part 2 Installing RetroPie
Following on from part 1 we get our retro games console up and running. We had some problems with the RetroPie sound at first, but it all worked out in the end.
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The C64 – The Commodore 64 is Coming Back to Resume Hostilities with the Speccy
Pinch me, I’m must be dreaming, the world’s gone into retro gaming hardware overdrive. Here’s a new Commodore 64 clone to add to the list of consoles that’ll soon be hanging out of the back of your telly.
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A New ZX Spectrum is Coming Your Way
Dust off your cassettes, commandeer the family TV and call up your mates. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is back, beefed up and looking good. Whatever Next?
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Building a Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Machine – Part 1 Getting Started
We’re going to build a cheap(ish) mini retro gaming console using a Raspberry Pi, part 1 finds us looking into the bits we need to achieve our retro gaming dream.
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