Anyone else got a Raspberry Pi?

[TheFaQQer]

I built a Picade over Christmas - break out the old SNES games...

[cojak]

I'm trying to find a safe download for retro games, any advice?

[Churchill]

I'm trying to find a safe download for retro games, any advice?

For which emulator?

Spectrum? Google "World of Spectrum"
BBC?
Apple?
Atari console?
Atari 8 bit?
N64?
Commodore?

[seanraaron]

I got one as a gift a couple of years ago and couldn't see what to use it for. I was originally going to run MAME on it and then build an arcade controller around it, but the performance was unacceptably poor compared to my MAC for a lot of my games.

It then occurred to me to use it for a home web server as unlike my Mac I'd be more likely to let it run all the time. Useful for keeping a lot of little things on that I want rapid access to; shame I can't get a fixed IP from BT so I can access it when I'm out and about, but I'm hopeful that once everything is switched to IPv6 that will be possible again.

[LondonManc]

I'm trying to find a safe download for retro games, any advice?

WinMAME. Don't bother with the inferior arcade conversions, get the arcade emulator.

PinMAME for pinball

MFME for fruit machines

If you want console stuff, Snes9x for SNES emulation, Spectaculator for Speccy.

I'll dig out a decent set of links this evening.

[TheFaQQer]

WinMAME. Don't bother with the inferior arcade conversions, get the arcade emulator.

PinMAME for pinball

MFME for fruit machines

If you want console stuff, Snes9x for SNES emulation, Spectaculator for Speccy.

I'll dig out a decent set of links this evening.

How do those run on a Raspberry Pi?

[LondonManc]

How do those run on a Raspberry Pi?

I'd imagine with the right flavour of Linux installed. I'll investigate later.

[unixman]

The Pi version of Doom, called pydoom IIRC, is easy to install (apt-get install pydoom) and runs fine.

[seanraaron]

How do those run on a Raspberry Pi?

I tried one of the MAME builds; wasn't thrilled with the results of running anything post-1985. I think it also could have additional emulators run from a common UI as well. Stella (Atari 2600 EMU) runs like a champ on Raspberry Pi.

[unixman]

...wasn't thrilled with the results of running anything post-1985.

That's harsh. Say post-1995 instead. At least for games running straight on the metal (like Doom/pyDoom). Not tried the MAME emulator though, having said that. Cracks opening in my argument here, so I will gloss over them all by saying all the best games were pre-1985.