ODROID Magazine

Linux Gaming – DOSBox, an x86 DOS Emulator: Play Your Original DOS Games in HD

December 1, 2018

DOSBox is an x86 DOS Emulator that not only emulates the x86 architecture, but also emulates a common 1990s-era DOS environment. With DOSBox, you can replay your old games and play them on modern hardware, since there are many interesting and legendary DOS applications that aren’t available for Windows or ▶

Coding Camp – Part 9: Make A Portable Handheld Weather Station

December 1, 2018

Let us learn how to access various weather data and share it with your mobile devices via WiFi connectivity.

The ODROID-GO Tricorder Project

December 1, 2018

For those of you who do not know what a Tricorder is, allow me to explain: In the newer Star Trek series, characters often carry a mobile device used for things like measuring rips in the space-time continuum and declaring “He’s dead, Jim.”

Building a Commodore 64 Emulator

December 1, 2018

This emulator allows one play to games designed for the Commodore 64 8-bit system.

Coding Camp – Part 10: Measure the distance with Ultrasonic

December 1, 2018

Let us learn how to use GPIO output, IRQ input and system timer with a Ultrasonic distance measuring module

Introducing NEMS Linux: Part 3 – Configuring Service Monitors on NEMS Linux

December 1, 2018

The intention with these articles has been to introduce you to NEMS Linux in such a way as to arm you with useful knowledge that gets you up and running immediately. These aren’t intended to appear as documentation, but rather a technical article that gives you ideas as to how ▶

ODROID-H2 Part 2: Bios Features and Remote Access

December 1, 2018

Like a generic PC, the ODROID-H2 has a soldered 8MiB BIOS Flash ROM on the board. It meets the UEFI Specification 2.6 and the PXE boot requirement. However, Intel UEFI firmware doesn’t support CSM version 2.0 for legacy OS booting such as DOS, XP, Windows 7, and so on.

Building RetroArch

December 1, 2018

If you are looking for a frontend to game emulators, you can try RetroArch. It has been ported to the ODROID-XU4 family of Single Board Computers (SBC’s). You can follow the steps below to install and use it on your system.