BBC Micro on Retropie & Pi3?

spud11

@buzz Thanks!

Methanoid

I can see that Archimedes is unlikely and probably needs you to boot RiscOS on the Pi anyway but BBC/Electron/Atom should be feasible... +1 from me please!

handsomegenius

I have some Beeb and Archimedes games going on Risc OS at the moment.

If you're willing to swap over an SD card, it's really not all that difficult to get it happening. If they brought Risc OS back into PINN and NOOBS, it'd be even easier, because you could just dual boot with Retropie.

Anyway, I wrote a big guide on how to get it all set up :)

Check it out: https://blog.dxmtechsupport.com.au/playing-badass-acorn-archimedes-games-on-a-raspberry-pi/

spud11

@handsomegenius For some reason, I had associated RiscOS with the Raspberry Pi 2 and hadn't cottoned on to the fact you could install it on the Raspberry Pi 3B. You've provided a very interesting tutorial too and would be especially of interest to those who would like to play Archimedes Elite on their Pi.

handsomegenius

@spud11 said in BBC Micro on Retropie & Pi3?:

@handsomegenius For some reason, I had associated RiscOS with the Raspberry Pi 2 and hadn't cottoned on to the fact you could install it on the Raspberry Pi 3B. You've provided a very interesting tutorial too and would be especially of interest to those who would like to play Archimedes Elite on their Pi.

If you try to install Risc OS on a Raspberry Pi 3 using NOOBS or PINN, it doesn't appear in the menu. Which is super annoying actually - because using PINN to dual boot Risc OS and Retropie would be a badass retro gaming rig.

But the SD card image file from the Risc OS Open website is running fine on my Raspberry Pi 3 B. They haven't configured it yet to work with the onboard wireless though.

I actually haven't been able to get Elite to run yet :( But that's mostly because I've been playing heaps of platformers :)

Pyjamarama

My humble opinion is that the RISCOS community is very cryptic.
They seem not to want new people there.
The Image causes issues in Pi3 and it lacks basic things.
Trying to put an unzip program there, is a big task when you are a Riscos newbie...

handsomegenius

I don't think that's quite it. Before I put Risc OS on my Pi, I hadn't touched it in 25 years. So I got stuck in a couple of places while putting it together and ended up asking for help on a couple of forums. The dudes were super prompt to help and super nice about it.

But it's a fairly small community, who seem to fall into 2 groups: those who use it professionally in embedded devices, and diehards who just never moved away. So pretty much all the discussion reflects that.

There is BIG lack of beginner-friendly projects and tutorials. You're kind of just left to scour the whole internet and put things together piece-by-piece. Which is a pity, because the actual OS is MILLIONS of times gentler on newbies than Linux.

That's kinda why I went to the effort to writing a 6000 word blog post on the whole thing - because once it's all laid out step-by-step, it's an incredibly easy project. Your games will be running in no time.

Unzipping things is actually another great example. One you know about !SparkFS, it's actually ridiculously easy to use and install - way easier than using archives from the Linux command line for the first time. But until you know what to look for, you don't know what to look for.

Pyjamarama

@handsomegenius thank you for your tutorial. It seems it is the first time I read something so extensive about the first step in RISCOS setup. I will have a go and I may interupt you asking things :)

Methanoid

@zamakli said in BBC Micro on Retropie & Pi3?:

This is the link of the project that have a version for linux of the BBC- Micro computer, can you add this on RetroPie?

No link ;-)

Lord Vek

@zerojay, I downloaded your beebem.sh file from https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra-unstable, but when I try to run it (in Retropie environment using the putty program) I have "unexpected newline" errors. If I delete all the newlines from the script then I have other types of errors. Please advice me what is the correct way to install beebem for a n00b like me? Thanks in advance!

Lord Vek

Nevermind, I discovered what I am doing wrong.