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Old 21st Aug 2019, 5:11 pm   #30
SiriusHardware
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Default Re: Sinclair Spectrum considerations

Just for fun, I tried installing 'Fuse', probably the best known Spectrum Emulator for Linux in the standard 'Raspbian' Pi version of Linux on my Pi 3 last night - certainly runs at flat-out Spectrum speed.

As 'Fuse' isn't specifically written for the Pi it doesn't directly support the connection of a switched joystick to the Pi's GPIO pins, but Adafruit appear to have made available a little utility which allows you to map GPIO 'events' onto specific keypresses - this is especially helpful for Sinclair emulators as Sinclair's own joysticks were mapped onto keyboard keys 1-5 and 6-0 respectively, so it should just be a matter of choosing 'Sinclair' joysticks in any game which needs one.
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