If you’ve been looking for Raspberry Pis lately, you know that the global chip and part shortage has caused them to be out of stock nearly everywhere. Thankfully André Costa created a stock checking tool that’s very easy to navigate and checks stock across Newark, PiShop, SparkFun, Seeed Studio, Farnell, The Pi Hut, and Adafruit. […]
With the Analogue Pocket selling out within the first 15 minutes of pre-orders, many potential customers expressed their disappointment with the company. Some have even called into question as to whether Analogue’s practice of advertising zero emulation for its devices is deceptive. Hardware emulation versus software emulation is a volatile topic to say the least, […]
Youtube user Bahn Yuki posted a video lately, showing off his Raspberry Pi 4 hooked up to the RetroTink Ultimate and running Lakka just fine. When the RP4 got released earlier this year, 15Khz RGB solutions like the RGB-Pi and Mike Chi’s RetroTink Ultimate were deemed unusable. The GPIO connector was still on board but […]
Shortly after last week’s announcement/release of the Raspberry Pi 4, questions were raised about the product’s backward compatibility with previous retro gaming related software and hardware released for the first 3 iterations of the RP. First, on the software side of things, Libretro, the team behind the multi-emulator frontend RetroArch, explained through a statement on […]
Never a collective that minces words, the Libretro team has announced the RetroArch Disc Project; a software initiative that will allow for gamers to use their physical discs with their emulation cores. Judging from their blog and the following tweet, it’s VERY clear that this initiative is going after Polymega: Unveiling the RetroArch Disc Project! It's […]
The Raspberry Pi team has just launched the “RPi4b”, starting at $35 for the 1GB model and $55 for the 4GB version. The features are pretty impressive and quite a boost over previous models: A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance) 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM Full-throughput Gigabit Ethernet Dual-band 802.11ac wireless networking Bluetooth […]
