Ian's Retro Museum
Retro Projects

My Retro Gaming Projects

Here are some of my Retropie builds

These were before I discovered running Retropie on an old desktop PC is much better

It's a Dell Optiplex 3040 to be precise, I may even include it in the museum at some point

It has a Core i5 3.20GHz processor with 8GB of RAM, I have installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the x86 version of Retropie and it runs everything including the Sega Saturn which no Raspberry Pi can do yet

There are 3 retro projects in the museum

Retropie Cassette



My Raspberry Pi Zero installed inside an old VHS cassette, it could play most 8 bit and some 16 bit systems just fine, although soon I needed more power

Retropie Brick



I upgraded my Retropie build to a Rasperry Pi 3B+, but now I needed a new case, so rather than use the mini NES cases everyone else was using, I went a different way

Sinclairian - The ZX Spectrum on your Raspberry Pi



Sinclairian is just Raspbian + Fuse (The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) with a dash of Retropie and some inspiration from Combian64 and Amibian thrown together into the mixing bowl

The dark area

I hope you all find this as interesting and as nostalgic as I do.

And if you do, why not check out the next page in my retro museum... Recreations

Or to quicky jump to another room of the museum, click or tap on Rooms at the bottom of this screen

Special thanks to my long-suffering partner Denise for putting up with all this "nonsense".

No cats were unnecessarily annoyed during the creation of this site

The dog has been sniffing around in the grass outside and has found an unused teleport to The Secret Room I thought I had lost a while ago





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