Raspberry pi question

[Ghostinthemachine]

Hello

I am thinking about getting my first raspberry pi, does anyone know if you can play old zx spectrum games on a raspberry pi using an emulator?

Thanks in advance

 

[Angular Chap]

Yes, you can easily play ZX Spectrum games using the emulator ZEsarUX. I have done this myself on the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Agreed. As well as many other retro games on several platforms.

 

[Ghostinthemachine]

Yes, you can easily play ZX Spectrum games using the emulator ZEsarUX. I have done this myself on the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5.

Fantastic thank you

 

[Jorg]

Yes, you can, Raspberry Pi (either 3, 4 or the newest 5) can run several tetro games and from several platforms,

The most easiest way or complete one is by using Retropie RetroPie

Specific site for your console:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/ZX-Spectrum/

 

[Lemon Zing]

Coincidentally, I got one recently. But it won't power on for some reason.

 

[kriss72]

Coincidentally, I got one recently. But it won't power on for some reason.

Does anything happen on the monitor if you have one connected? How do you power it?

 

[Lemon Zing]

I connected a mini HDMI cable, a mico-USB hub and a USB cable into a power cube into all of the ports, but my TV didn't display anything. However, I tried ordering a proper power plug for it on Amazon, so fingers crossed that's the problem.

 

[wards]

I would like at FPGA setups for things like this, you will get a 1:1 experience to the real hardware. There are cheap FPGA single boards that can fit these systems on them, so don't need to spend big on something like a MisterFPGA.

 

[FilterFreq]

I see this has already been answered, but for anyone else looking for a solution outside of the traditional desktop / Raspbian approach, Batocera is pretty slick and runs on a Pi (among other things). No need to download additional cores (unless you're playing some kind of rare or obscure system) or anything fancy, just flash it and you're good to go.

The only downside is that it doesn't currently run on an Orange Pi (or not the ones I have), but pretty much every other SoC is covered. You can even liveboot it on your desktop or laptop and give it a spin