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Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition Design, create, and play all kinds of video games on your Raspberry Pi computer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399337
Length 140 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shea Silverman Shea Silverman
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ChameleonPi

ChameleonPi is another ready-to-use Raspberry Pi distribution that focuses on the emulation of older computers. The ChameleonPi project was originally conceived to bring older and retro style computers to the Raspberry Pi device. To download ChameleonPi visit:

http://chameleon.enging.com/

ChameleonPi includes the following systems:

  • ZX Spectrum
  • Commodore 64
  • Oric-1
  • Oric Atmos
  • Apple II series
  • ZX81
  • IBM PC
  • Atari 800
  • Atari 800XL
  • Atari 2600
  • Commodore Vic-20
  • Commodore 128
  • Amstrad CPC 464
  • Atari ST
  • Gameboy
  • NES
  • SNES
  • Megadrive/Genesis

After booting up your Raspberry Pi with the ChameleonPi image, you should see the following splash screen:

ChameleonPi

After loading, the ChameleonPi the main menu will be displayed:

ChameleonPi

ChameleonPi offers a similar way to get game files onto the SD card as RetroPie does. The first is via SAMBA shares. The big difference between the two is that ChameleonPi's password protects the folders. By default, the username is zx and the password is spectrum. Once logged in, you will see a list of...

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