Hans-Georg Eßer is professor for operating systems at South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences. Previously he worked in magazine publishing, most recently as editor-in-chief of EasyLinux.
Emulator apps let you play pinball at home, but that isn’t the same as throwing coins into a real machine. Sharpin’s virtual pinball machines might be a compromise.
Of all the current mass-produced computers, the Raspberry Pi 400 is the closest you can get to the wedge-shaped home computers of the 1980s. Add a C64 emulator, and the combination of new and old lets you dive into old-school BASIC programming and gaming.
SD cards are getting larger and cheaper all the time – why not share a card between two operating systems for the Raspberry Pi? The PINN OS installer lets you automate the process.
BASIC, one of the oldest programming languages, helped make home computers popular in the 1980s. You can run the old GW-BASIC programs from the DOS era in PC-BASIC, a modern emulator.