We love the Commodore Amiga. We're also delighted with this video that shows how to turn a Raspberry Pi into an retro Amiga computer.

Basilisk II, a 68K Mac emulator running on the Raspberry Pi. Everyone asks if the Pi can do this or that. If you can do it on Linux and compile it, the answer is. Mar 12, 2015  Openelec: Emulators (self.raspberrypi) submitted 4 years ago by NorthernDen. Just picked up my raspberry pi 2. I have been mostly a windows user up to now, and have dipped my toe in the linux world once and a while. I'm trying to get openelec running on the pi, and have a nes emulator running as well. Can't seem to find any notes online on how.

Dan Wood is a radio presenter and host of The Retro Hour gaming podcast. Dan spends his spare time finding new uses for old technology.

If you don’t remember the Commodore Amiga, it was a computer from the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was incredibly popular among gamers and hackers, thanks to its powerful graphics chip.

It was also used in many television stations to create title sequences. It was one of the first systems to do video editing.

Commodore computers can be quite expensive on Ebay. But don’t worry, you can use a Raspberry Pi 3 to emulate Amigas, including the best-selling 500 and the impressive 1200.

How to emulate a Commodore Amiga on the Raspberry Pi

The emulation software used by Dan is called Amibian. You should use a Raspberry Pi 3, which has enough power to run emulated Amiga software. You can also use RetroPie to install Amiga software.

Emulating an Amiga is a little more complex than other systems. You need a Kickstart ROM alongside the Amibian software.

• You will need the following
• Amibian
• Win32DiskImager
• SD Card Formatter
• Kickstart ROMs

The Kickstart ROMs can be found online, but it's safer to buy them as part of an emulated package. Dan suggests using Amiga Forever, which you can pick up on the Google Play store for 69p. You'll have to resort to finding ROMs yourself (or turn old floppy disks into image files).

There are hundreds of truly great games for Commodore's classic system. These come with the .ADF file format.

Dan does a great job of walking you through the process, and he even has a nifty 3D-printed case for his Pi that looks like a squished Commodore Vic-20 computer.

The emulator programming legends that make up the MAME team have issued fourth a new version of their eponymous emulator and I have built it for the mac and managed to shoehorn it onto a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, set your expectations accordingly.

There is the usual encyclopaedia of improvements and fixes in the whatsnew. Here is the official announcement about the release and this is the official release page where you can get the Windows build (why would you want that‽), or the source code if you fancy a confused look and a major headache! Visit the Github page to see all the code monkey mutterings.

A macOS build is now available on my MAME page, it was built using the latest High Sierra build and XCode 9. There is also a Raspberry Pi version built with the newly released Raspbian Stretch, a custom SDL2 and GCC 6.3.

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