Old School BASIC Blog

 This is the belated first part of a series of posts on getting a Raspberry Pi working with RetroPie for some sweet retro gaming. The Raspberry Pi is a fun, way too small computer that is great for all sorts of stuff, but especially for playing old video games with. It should be noted that I bought mine near the end of 2020, when they were actually available in stores. I also bought an Argon One Pi 4 case for it, and so it stays (relatively) cool when I overclock it. Unfortunately, I lost the piece of paper where I had the overclock values written down, and so I started over from scratch. The following process is how I figured out the overclocking values I'll use, and you can too if you follow along. This is aimed at the Pi 4 or 400, but some of it should be applicable to the Pi 3 and below with some tweaking to the numbers used. Be sure to have a paper and pencil handy for writing the speeds you've achieved down. The first thing you'll need (aside from the Pi and a case, o

 It's been quite a while since my last post, but if you've paying attention to my YouTube channel, I've been doing stuff, just nothing related to this blog. I should be able to get another blog post up by the end of the weekend, which will be the first in a series of posts. No, the post has nothing to do with the original purpose of this blog. I have no idea when I'm going to start working on BASIC Wrangler again, and work on the game will have to wait until I've finished what I was doing before with that.

 So, I finally finished the Mac Emulator Setup videos I'd been working on. It took a lot longer than I had planned to edit them together, but they're up now. It may be a while before I start on the next set of emulator setup videos, as my DVR is way too full right now, and I also want to get the platinum trophy for NieR Replicant at some point. Also, here's a link to a set of Mini vMac emulators I compiled. It includes instructions about how to compile versions of it for yourself if you want to, but the ones in the file should work pretty well, albeit the default speed setting is to a realistic speed, so you may want to change the speed when installing stuff.

 As the title says, I'm back. I'm done with the really annoying stuff with my mother's estate, and so I now have some free time to get back to work on this stuff. The first thing I've got is a video about installing the Apple IIGS System Software. But it's not just that. I've also compiled some useful stuff you can install afterwards to add functionality and fix bugs, and I also made a tutorial about converting images from modern computers to use as a desktop background on the IIGS. That was originally going to be a separate video, but it wasn't that long, so I tacked it on the end of the install tutorial. I've got more of these tutorials planned, but they take a surprisingly long amount of time to make, so don't expect another one for a while... I'm basically working on Valve Time here. If you want to watch it, just click here.

In case in you hadn't noticed, both my blog and YouTube channel haven't been getting many updates for the last year or so. I had been hoping to make more progress with my videos and programming projects this year. I was starting to make some progress again, and was working on my next video when tragedy struck, literally. The long and short of it is that my mother passed away. We knew that it would happen someday , but neither of us thought that it would happen so soon. We figured it was 5 or 10 years out. Now I have to deal with the estate, and try to figure out what to do next with my life, as I had been acting as her full-time caretaker for years. I'm definitely not done with my channel, this blog, or my projects, but other matters will have to take precedence for now. If I finish up more videos, then I'll post them, but don't expect much for now.

OK, so I've been putting more work into getting emulators installed on my computer again, and I decided to take a quick little dip into OS-9 for the Tandy Color Computer 3. Or to be more precise, NitrOS-9 . There are some pre-made VHD files out there, but those are years old, and the installation files from Robert Gault are even older. (UPDATE: There are pre-built images with lots of extra stuff included available from NitrOS-9 Ease of Use .) So, I played around with the NitrOS-9 build files, and compiled some installation disks based on the latest sources. I've put a video guide on how to set up your own VHD up on my YouTube page available  here . The actual installation disks, with written instructions and a source code patch are up on my Dropbox  here .