Posts with Tag: retro

My DIY Arcade Stick...

My DIY Arcade Stick...

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

I really liked the arcade games back in the 80s-90s and still enjoy playing them in MAME, with a keyboard or a gamepad. But nothing beats the feeling of an arcade stick. For a long time, i wanted to buy or make one, for my self, but i was mostly been hesitated, because of the various models, the big...

Launch ISO ROMs from file manager Linux/Ubuntu

Launch ISO ROMs from file manager Linux/Ubuntu

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

Customize your file manager to launch an emulator when you double click an ISO file. Normally, double clicking an ISO file opens a file archive program which is useless! This way we can use our file manager as a very easy way to launch ROMs and our favorite emulators, with just a double click, thu...

Using archive.org to get roms…

Posted on 21st Jul 2024

A neat way to get roms, specially for MAME, is using the Archive.org site. WIth a simple search you can find complete sets of rom files for many MAME versions. You can just click a file and get the complete set, but you can also navigate into the archive/zip file and get individual files/roms. Thi...