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Haven’t tried saving anything, but it should be possible to just save the machine state instead of swapping disc images. That’s what I used on the windows version of beebem to get through the first Elite mission. May give it a crack later.

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Not so much. If you hit F12 tab to the sound menu and change the sample frequency you get sound for as long as it takes for some interrupt or other to occur. Playing Chuckie Egg I got it to do the running sound for a couple of seconds at a time by this method but every time I would jump or climb a ladder the sound would fail and I’d need to tab through again and reset it. Annoying, but at least it runs even if you cant exit properly either.

Sound I can live without. When I was a kid I mostly played with sound off anyhow.

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Never ran RetroPie on the B/B+ but did run Carles Oriol’s ChameleonPi which is essentially a remix.

RetroPie on the Pi 2 is great – full speed PSX with no over clocking.

Plus the Pi 2 has enough grunt to cope with the deficiencies in BBC Micro emulation so you no longer have to run RiscOS just to get an ARM-optimised 6502 emulator that will do it.

I wrote a little blog post about it. Maybe somebody would like to include that machine , despite it being a bit UK-specific. Build instructions at:

http://haprpi.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-bbc-lives.html?m=1

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