{"id":3292,"date":"2022-11-07T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picockpit.com\/raspberry-pi\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2023-08-16T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:01:34","slug":"exciting-raspberry-pi-project-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picockpit.com\/raspberry-pi\/exciting-raspberry-pi-project-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi project ideas: Reanimating the Retro!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here are some new and exciting Raspberry Pi projects that find ways of reanimating the retro!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactive fiction games with Raspberry Pi Pico<\/h2>\n\n\n
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An ebadger LodeRunner running BadgerFrotz. (Photo from Eric Badger’s Github)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Eric Badger has created the BadgerFrotz, which allows you to play Interactive Fiction games like Zork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric built this system by porting the Frotz Z-Machine port which is an interpreter for all Infocom and other Z-Machine games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also had to figure out a way to output video on the Pico and he provides a link to how he did it in the project’s Github. Nonetheless, you can probably port this to custom hardware or a Pimoroni VGA board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above all, this project is a learning experience on how to manage the Pico’s limitations. According to Eric, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The project demonstrates how to utilize the Pico’s flash memory in a way that works with multiple cores and the DMA\/PIO generating the VGA signal. Writing to the flash is moderately painful since no code can be running from the flash while writing to it. As such, all running code must be in RAM, DMA can’t be running. The project demonstrates how to write to flash and then reestablish the VGA signal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n