Relive past computers
A roundup of the computers that made us smile (and occasionally swear).
The Internet Archive’s Arcade Collection enables you to play classics such as Q*bert from the comfort of your browser.
Retro gaming has long been a popular activity on the Pi. Soon after its 2012 release coders worked hard to get the popular
MAME
running there, and other emulators soon followed suit. The
Fuse
emulator for the ZX Spectrum series was another early arrival, and Fuse development is alive and well today.
Anyone who went to school in the UK in the 1980s will remember the BBC Micro. Anyone willing to recreate the BBC experience need look no further than BeebEm (http://beebem-unix.bbcmicro.com). It’s one of the oldest emulators we’ll feature here, having been around since 1994. It will have you reliving your galactic trading days in Elite in no time. You can even run it from a web browser at https://beeb.webassembly.link.