The Lakka team has just posted a build that’s fully compatible with the newly released Raspberry Pi 4: http://nightly.builds.lakka.tv/2019-07-27/RPi2.RPi4.arm/ This update has been released as part of their “nightly” build, but will soon be integrated into their main download release. Also, it has OpenGL ES 2 and 3, using the new open source #mesa driver I’m looking […]
Terraonion just announced that their upcoming Mega SD romcart/FPGA device will support (through a future firmware update) the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Virtua Racing. Throughout the years, running Virtua Racing on clone systems, some emulators and FPGA cores often seemed to be problematic to say the least, as support for Sega’s SVP DSP couldn’t be […]
The RGB-Pi team just released the highly anticipated Jamma RGB-Pi board for the Raspberry Pi 2b, 3b and 3b+ models. This add-on (also named “hat” in the RP world) is a double-sided PCB that sits on top of the Pi’s GPIO pins and turns the tiny computer into a fully functional device that can be […]
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It is the year 2019 and in the Personal Computer (PC) world. A company called Creative is still making sound cards for gamers and audiophile enthusiast alike. Having just launched this summer, customers can order one of two different choices with the flagship model being the Sound Blaster AE-9 PCI-E Sound Card. The other is […]
A wonderful interview with Electrical Engineer Joe Decuir, just took place recently at VCF East 2019 (Vintage Computer Festival). Mr. Decuir was instrumental in the founding of the Hi-Toro / Amiga line of computers as well as other classic computers and hardware from Atari and more. The Guru Meditation conducted this interview and if you […]
A new Amiga 1200 PCB Motherboard is in development and work is being shown on the Belgian Amiga Club via the work from Jeroen Vandezande. Additional information can be found on the retro computing section on the website Hackaday (article by Jenny List). This is a complete board replacement for the Amiga 1200. Providing Amiga lovers […]
Video Game Perfection has just listed a few of fidde’s SCART test boards for sale: https://www.videogameperfection.com/products/scart-test-board/ This is an interesting device, designed for a few pretty niche-but-useful oscilloscope testing scenario’s. First any hardware developer who’s testing a device that outputs SCART could use this to easily probe signals live and in real time. You’d of course […]
Video Game Perfection now has stock of Markus’ CPSHDMI kit! No more waiting list, just get em while they’re in for around $100!: https://retrorgb.link/cpshdmi For anyone who hasn’t been following: The CPSHDMI kits are a digital-to-digital solution for the Capcom Play System arcade units. They were originally designed for the CPS2’s, but Markus has been working […]
Aidan Lawrence has just released a new revision of his Mega MIDI 5 sound module. He states that he, “drastically improved the digital/analog separation and have completely redesigned the amp and power circuitry.” This device can now be powered via USB and no longer requires an external power brick adapter. In addition to this, a […]
