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Raspberry Pi running the Fuse ZX Spectrum Emulator

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1 year ago
by Andy in ,

As seen at the Horizons event at the BFI, London in May 2012!

Fuse install guide here! (Added August 2012)

Finally, I have got the Fuse ZX Spectrum emulator running on Raspberry Pi #7. Here is a video of it in action.

Getting the emulator to work was relatively simple. I just has to ‘apt-get’ in a few additional packages from the Debian repository. I didn’t need to modify any C code.

I tried to compile the code under the virtual machine set-up detailed on Russell Davis’s blog http://russelldavis.org, but it would not compile. So in the end, I compiled the code directly on the Pi. This did take about 20 minutes.

You should have seen my face once I got Manic Miner loaded :)

I will be taking more photos and video of the Raspberry Pi at the Beeb@30 event this weekend.

This Pi (Number 7) belongs to http://www.computinghistory.org.uk

 

My Raspberry Pi delivery delayed until 14th May!!! (UPDATED!)

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1 year ago
by Andy in

The following has been ordered to the Raspberry Pi FAQ on the Farnell website.

Raspberry Pi Delivery Dates

 

Q: I got an email from Farnell element14 stating that my delivery date for the Raspberry Pi I ordered is now into May or June, is this correct?

 

 

A: Sorry! We updated the data in our system so that new customers placing their pre-order would be advised of the delivery date at the end of May or beginning of June.  If you originally had an estimated delivery date in March or April, your delivery estimate is still as per the original communication.

Not a happy bunny this morning. Got another email from Farnell saying my Pi will not be shipped until the week commencing 14th May.

Guess I will keep using my BeagleBoard for now then. Need to pick up a USB keyboard first – I cant believe I don’t own any!

Raspberry Pi model B now available to buy (If you are lucky!)

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1 year ago
by Andy in

At 6am on the 29th of February 2012, the Raspberry Pi finally went on sale. These awesome single board computers are/were available to buy from either Farnell or RS Components.

I was up at 6am this morning – was I successful at getting a Pi? … No

However, I have registered my interest at RS Components. I wonder if I will get a call or email back from them today? Fingers cross.

If you were successful at getting your mits on one of these, please drop me a comment below.

The BBC have the following to say about the Raspberry Pi

A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code goes on general sale for the first time today.

The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry. Sold uncased without keyboard or monitor, the Pi has drawn interest from educators and enthusiasts. Supporters hope the machines could help reverse a lack of programming skills in the UK.

“It has been six years in the making; the number of things that had to go right for this to happen is enormous. I couldn’t be more pleased,” said Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

You can read the rest of the BBC article at : The Raspberry Pi computer goes on general sale

Raspberry Pi – We’ve started manufacture!

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1 year ago
by Andy in

Here is the latest announcement from the Raspberry Pi team. (Source)

Raspberry Pis started being made a couple of days ago, but I was forbidden to tell you about it until signed contracts and receipts for payment had arrived – it’s been killing me, especially since I’ve had tens of you asking me when manufacturing would start every day for the last few weeks. I am not good at keeping secrets.

This means that the first units from the first batch will be rolling off the line at the end of January. This first batch will consist only of Model Bs, although you will be able to buy Model As later on. Details about whether we’ll wait for all 10k to come off the line before starting sales, and about what date we’ll be starting on, will come later; so that gives you something else for you to shift around nervously on your chairs about for at least another week or so. (Please stop emailing me about it. Please.)

Unfortunately, we’ve not been able to manage manufacture in quite the way we’d hoped. As you will know if you’ve been reading the forums and the articles on this website, the Raspberry Pi Foundation had intended to get all its manufacture done in the UK; after all, we’re a UK charity, we want to help bootstrap the UK electronics industry, and doing our manufacturing in the UK seemed another way to help reach our goals.

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Old and new, side by side.

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1 year ago
by Andy in

Here are probably 2 of the most important computers of all time – The Macbook pro and the BBC Micro (Well, the BBC is definitely a very important machine!)

You can click on the photo above to see a higher resolution copy on Flickr.

Here are the specifications of the 2 machines.

BBC Model B

  • CPU : MOS Technologies 6502 at 2Mhz
  • RAM : 32k as standard (This one has 52k RAM)
  • Storage : Either audio casette or disk. This one has a SD Card reader acting as a disk drive
  • Graphics : 640×256 with 8 colours + teletext (Mode 7)
  • OS : OS 1.20 and Watford Electronics DDFS 1.50

Apple MacBook Pro

  • CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.26Ghz
  • RAM : 2GB DDR3
  • Storage : 160Gb SATA
  • Graphics : 1280×800 16 Million colours
  • OS : Apple OS X 10.6.3

The BBC is the older machine, but it boots to its OS in under a second. If only modern Macs and PCs would be as quick.

BBC Model B – Issue 1 photos

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3 years ago
by Andy in ,

During my visit to the Computing Museum last weekend, I got to see a quite rare BBC Model B issue 1. Take a look at the photos below. Click the photo to see a higher resolution copy.

The PSU has been verified by Chris Turner to be one of the original prototpe PSU’s that shouldn’t really still be out in the wild. He thought they had replaced the few that were sold with proper production versions. Obviously not! It may be the only one in existance. The lid looks basically the same, but the stippling efect on the case is quite rough. Again one of the earliest low production mould tools were used before they really started to ramp up production.

Also, do you notice the lack of the analog port!

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