Thursday 19 July 2018

July 2018 Meeting Report

For any of the younger generation (especially those who've grown up not experiencing technology such as the cathode ray tube) emulators may be the only way in which they'll interact with the Atari classics (And yes quite a few classics licensed to Atari as well).

So this Month we've set up RetoPie 4.4 from scratch.  With all the hard work done by the retroPie community this is the sort of project I imagine you could get the kids involved in.

Step one.  Wiltronics were able to supply us with the basics to start.  And at a modest price we were able to purchase a Raspberry Pi Model B+, a 2.5 AMP power supply (neccessary to power this 1.4GHz beast) and a 16GB Micro SD Card to get us started

With initial support from Gra and an Internet connection (Essential), it was on to setting up the Micro SD Card for use with the Pi...

There's more to come, including  playing classic games that use the Atari's STA (siamese twin analog) controllers...

Wednesday 11 July 2018

July 2018 teaser

I'm guessing the tech-perts among us are already familiar with this but if you want to find out how your android phone stacks up against, oh I don't know let's say, a Raspberry Pi then try downloading the free android app CPU-Z from the Play Store.  It will give you all the stats (well more stats than I'm ever likely to need!)

Why the Raspberry Pi?  Well because it's gaining a reputation for emulation.  It definitely quite good at reproducing classic games for the Atari such as Activision's Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

Check out the latest Raspberry Pi at the July meeting this Sunday 15th of July 2018.  Meeting at Level 1, 479 Warrigal Road, Moorabbin (VIC Australia)(Opp. Bunnings) from 10 AM (our time)