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There are loads of things you can do with your Raspberry Pi, once you’ve actually got it in your hands that is. You could turn it into a media centre; use it as a mini web server; build a NAS for streaming media with it, or even pack it full of emulators for the ultimate all-in-one retro-gaming machine. Now that’s what I’m talking about.
Andy Taylor from the UK Computer Museum has used his spare time to port over Fuze, a ZX Spectrum emulator, complete with Manic Miner. While I’m only just old enough to remember the tape-playing Spectrum, even I’ve played Manic Miner in one form or another.
I can’t wait to see what happens when people get set about porting over emulators for the SNES, Mega Drive and even maybe the N64 to the Pi – it really could prove to be the best plug-and-play retro gaming system ever, and for only £22-odd too. [Raspberry Pi]
Thanks Darrell!
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As I understand it, porting any current Linux program is simply (HA!) recompiling the source code using the arm toolchain, which should mean all the existing emulators on Linux should become available.
Ultimate? No. Cheapest and, arguably, simplest? Perhaps.
As Darrell has already pointed out, if it can be recompiled for ARM Linux, it should work on Raspberry Pi.
Manic Miner!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!! loved that game!!
I can’t wait to see what the Pi is capable of, emulator wise. SNES no problem, PSX and maybe N64 though? I dare say that’s pushing it.
Why?, I had an N64 emulator on my android phone (back when I had the desire) and that worked fine.
I beleive (But I could be mistaken) that the Raspberry Pi excels in the GPU department, but CPU wise is fairly slow. The Desire had a 1Ghz Snapdragon ARM CPU, while the Pi uses a 600Mhz CPU from the previous ARM generation. I really don’t think the Pi will do N64 emulation brilliantly well. Maybe well enough for some games.
Seeing how well it runs Quake 3 I don’t see it having trouble, the code for the emulator may need to be optimised for the device to shift load from the CPU to the GPU though.