Other projects • Re: BBC Emulator as an O/S for Pi

My ideal BBC project would be to run the BBC emulator as an OS and have a BBC type keyboard connected via USB or GPIO. Not sure how feasible the BBC emulator as a OS would be though.

The people who would know if there's a viable bare-metal BBC Micro emulator for the Raspberry Pi live here: stardot.org.uk - Index page. They are very helpful.

Personally, I don't know of any beeb emulators that run as the OS. B-em, b2, beebjit and BeebEm all need an OS of some kind. They may be able to run full-screen on startup from the Desktop, though.

Some outside-the-box suggestions:

• RISCOS is still maintained (quite nicely now, with wifi support, even). It runs fast and close to the metal. BeebIt is the beeb emulator for it; or
• a web browser set up as a kiosk, running jsbeeb or the majestically-over-the-top VirtualBeeb

While Graham Sanderson's Pico-based emulator is pretty impressive, it has very specific hardware requirements. It doesn't look like it's had too much work done to it recently, so it may still require USB serial keyboard input from another computer.

Statistics: Posted by scruss — Tue Dec 10, 2024 6:28 pm

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