On 12/21/18 3:30 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
I’m afraid I’ll have to agree with Jim here. When talking about
Retro Gaming, in most cases, the Raspberry Pi, while better than nothing,
aren’t as good as the real thing, especially in regards to video
and audio.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
I was asking from a position of ignorance because I've not used either.
I have some colleagues at work that use the Raspberry Pi. So I know of,
but not about, it.
I was seriously excited about the Retron77 (Atari 2600) that was recently
released, but on getting it, I found that it wasn’t able to play a
fair number of the cartridges I’ve tried with it.
:-(
DOS games never had *KNOWN* set of hardware they’d be running on,
as a result I think they’re likely more forgiving.
Now despite what I just said about the Raspberry Pi, I have three of
them around here, one is a small VAX running OpenVMS 7.3, one is a DPS-8
running Multics, and the other a KL-10B running TOPS-20. I had dreams
of building a VMS cluster of RPi 3+’s, but have kind of gone off that
idea, due to the superior performance I get using my VMware Cluster to
host VAX instances.
I'll have to check out the DPS-8 and KL-10B.
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Grant. . . .
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