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THOSE MAGNIFICENT MACHINES OF THE 1980s

THE PI A AND PI B monograms are a tribute to the BBC Micro, which also came in a modest A form (with 16KB of RAM) and a beefier model B (with 32KB). That seems reason enough to devote time to emulating those bastions of British engineering.

BeebEm, mentioned previously, isn’t included in RetroPie, and nor is it available through its experimental package repos. There have been a few attempts to write custom installers to get it to work. The easiest one is detailed at . You only need to install the MAME standalone and LR-Mess (non-arcade) emulators to get a virtual BBC B working.

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