Lots of arcade games and other amusement machines made in the last twenty years run on desktop Linux.

Incredible Technologies games, Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix Big Buck Hunter Pro, Arachnid dartboards, and TouchTunes jukeboxes off the top of my head.

Sorry. If there is a keyboard key or other input event to scroll it, you could set a touchscreen gesture to emulate that input?

Does double tap and drag work?

Meaning: tap, lift, tap without lifting, drag.

You are correct.

One can solder in a temporary “helper battery” (or 3V power supply) to the same traces but in a different spot, to keep the SRAM alive while the real battery is replaced.

Some later games (GBA-era) use Flash memory and the battery is just for the clock.

Japan also got Game Boy Light, which is a Game Boy Pocket with green EL backlighting (like Indiglo).

It works for Ultimate Boot CD, which includes DBAN and a lot of other fun stuff.

I play with retro hardware and Ventoy has also worked for me with some weird old isos that even Rufus didn’t work with (XP/Server 2003 multidisc from eXPerience that uses a Linux bootloader?)

Samples were used on older versions of MAME before the custom audio generators were emulated. They can be found at samples.mameworld.info and would go in the “samples/bosco” directory.

This, I tried some newer distros with Wayland and ended up going back to Debian Stable and X11 for gaming. Got Sunshine (for Moonlight handheld client streaming) working for in about a minute.

Lakka will make a dedicated RetroArch machine, if that’s your thing.

Edit: Updated link for Lakka x86.

Hiren’s Boot CD PE

My bad. Well, obviously Motorola has 14 configured and available for this device, so I don’t know what to tell you.

Luckily, my gov’t now forces providers to un-network-lock devices after a certain waiting period (60 days?), and the bootloader seems to be unlockable! I’m not feeling like a slave, just paying more for the phone than what I signed up for.

Edit: I’ll always trust Motorola over, say, Samsung, where the Galaxy S-whatever (US version) and the same name device (International version) even have a completely different processor!

I have a Verizon Razr+ 2023 (on an MVNO), and it’s now running Android 14.

Ask your service provider why they are holding back updates.

Edit: 14 fixed one of my annoying issues with this phone; the outer screen did not play nice with certain keyboards and would force close them (I like Unexpected Keyboard). Now you can choose different keyboards for each screen.

I maintain older hardware at work. We have a platform based on a Biostar motherboard with no USB3 ports, and it will not boot from any USB3 drive I’ve tried. Any USB2 drives work fine. Picky, picky! 🤷

Anybody have a direct download link instead of a link to Twatter like in the article?

Other game: Syobon Action? 🙀

Oof. It’s extremely easy with Ventoy.

My Wisconsin friends verified that this is legit.

Thanks for replying, everyone! This project is temporarily on hold; downloading and sha256sum-ming some different isos led me to discover that my main system has a RAM issue. 🤦

I just learned to not trust motherboards’ automatic RAM voltage setting; only one of four sticks seems to be sensitive to the apparent undervoltage that it was running on.

Edit: I hope that whoever designed the style of RAM slot that has a latch on only one side stubs their toe every day for the rest of their life.

If you uninstall (or disable) Google Photos, that button should ask what app you want to open.

Try some non-Razer input devices. I’ve seen multiple systems act strangely because of them, although the usual problem is that the system won’t POST with the offending device plugged in… Unplug, boot system, plug in, and it works fine (until it’s time to reboot or power-cycle).