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My thoughts bounce around on retro computing. It's fun, but there's so much more you can do with an RPI, and so much more support. The times I try to play wit
by lucidguppy 4y ago
My thoughts bounce around on retro computing. It's fun, but there's so much more you can do with an RPI, and so much more support.
The times I try to play with emulators and the like are short, and the interest fades pretty quickly.
Ultimately I feel like a apple II type setup on an RPI <at boot up> would scratch a lot of itches.
Yes - I know that there are plenty of libraries or just do it in the browser stuff. But there's just a brutal reduction in barriers in a switch on to basic system that would let much more people through the door.
- jacknews 4y agoThe point is not really to just run the old software, which as you say is much easier in an emulator. There's an element of 'antique' in the allure; A genuine Queen Anne-era writing desk has something that an MDF reproduction doesn't, almost a physical connection to the past.