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Booting Batocera on Dell Optiplex Micro PC

Booting Batocera on Dell Optiplex Micro PC

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I had issues with my Dell Optiplex 3050 micro PC not booting via UEFI into Batocera Linux. When trying to boot, I was stuck on a black screen with the message “Booting Batocera.linux” but the system wouldn’t continue to boot. If I switched the Dell Optiplex BIOS to use “Legacy” boot then it worked, but then the PC wouldn’t recognise other OS installations if I swapped out Batocera, and I didn’t want to have to keep fiddling with the BIOS…

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Emulation for Retro Gaming

Emulation for Retro Gaming

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Emulation is hardware or software that allows one computer system to behave like another. In the world of retro gaming this means that a newer more powerful system can pretend to be an older console or computer and old software can be loaded. Emulators for various old games platforms are available to run on different systems – Windows, macOS, even in web browsers. Alternatively, full retro gaming setups containing multiple emulators can be used, such as Batocera for PC’s, or…

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