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ZX81

RetroPie upstream reference · Snapshot 175f5b158f16

Check the hardware and OS before following this guide.

Imported upstream documentation may contain historical commands and defaults. It is not a tested Pi 5 recipe. See current Pi 5 research.

[Upstream illustration: zx81]

The ZX81 is a home computer released by Sinclair in 1981. It was designed to be a low-cost entry computer for the general public. It sold 1.5 million units by the end of it's life.

Emulator Rom Folder Extension
lr-81 zx81 .p .tzx .t81

Emulator: lr-81

This emulator can be installed from the experimental menu of the RetroPie-Setup script.

Due to a bug in the emulator, you will have to set Player 2's controller type to "Sinclair Keyboard" in order to send inputs.

ROMS

Accepted File Extensions: .p .tzx .t81

Place your ZX-81 ROMs in:

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/zx81

Controls

lr-81 utilises Retroarch configurations.

Add custom retroarch controls to the retroarch.cfg file in

/opt/retropie/configs/zx81/retroarch.cfg

For more information on custom RetroArch controls see: RetroArch Configuration

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