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Relive past computers

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(). 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 in no time. You can even run it from a web browser at

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