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RCade - An Arcade Cabinet For RC2014
Arcade cabinets are great. For many of us they bring back memories of a wasted youth pumping in coins for an endorphin hit of flashy graphics, joystick wiggling and button mashing. But what if your favorite games are text adventures like Zork, or Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy? Or you get your adrenaline rush from writing code in BASIC? Even Wordstar or DBASE II can get the blood pumping.
Well, recently Pimoroni relaunched their Picade cabinet, which is a desktop sized arcade cabinet designed to add a joystick, buttons, sound and screen to your Raspberry Pi to turn it in to a great little arcade emulator. Luckily, it can easily be turned in to a home for your RC2014!
Retro Challenge 2017/10 - Returning to Zork
After what felt like a lot of aimless bumbling around and poor progress on the first streamed game of Zork, I decided to take a…
Retro Challenge 2017/10 Zork First Stream
At 7pm UK time on Sunday (yesterday), I did the first Zork live stream. This post is going to look back at how this went,…
Retro Challenge 2017/10 - Live Zork Streaming Soon
Firstly, apologies that not much has happened recently. I've been under the weather for the last few days, so only made minimal progress. However, feeling…
Retro Challenge 2017/10 Testing
The initial testing of the ESP8266 board with the RC2014 was pretty good, and fundamentally it worked. However, it wasn't quite right, and I suspected…
Retro Challenge 2017
Ok, with 5 days of October already gone, I know it's cutting things a bit fine for putting my entry in for this seasons Retro…
