- UPDATED 13th May, 2015 – Updated for the Raspberry Pi 2.
- UPDATED 27th April, 2015 – Old WoS links are dead. Links updated!
- UPDATED 14th March, 2018 – Weird copy and paste issue with some of the code.
This guide is now outdated; there are simpler methods to install emulators on the Raspberry Pi that don’t require compiling from source code.
Getting Fuse running on the Raspberry Pi is relatively simple – just follow the steps in this post.
I am running Raspbian, but these instructions should work on other Debian based distributions. This guide will compile Fuse to run with SDL. You do not need to start X Windows to run Fuse in SDL mode.
I suggest you connect to your Raspberry Pi over SSH. You can use a terminal application like PuTTY under Windows, ssh on *nix or terminal on OS X. This will save you typing in all the commands below. It’s a lot easier to copy and paste!
Connect to your Pi, and install the following packages.
$ sudo apt-get install libaudiofile-dev libsdl1.2-dev
Create a folder inside /home/pi called src. You will download the FUSE and libspectrum files to this folder, extract the source code, and compile it. You need to rename the file downloaded from SourceForge.
$ cd /home/pi $ mkdir src $ cd src $ wget https://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/fuse-emulator/libspectrum-1.0.0.tar.gz $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fuse-emulator/fuse/1.0.0.1a/fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz Now, extract, compile and install libspectrum. This takes about 5 minutes on the original model B, and about 3 on the Pi 2.
$ tar xvfz libspectrum-1.0.0.tar.gz $ cd libspectrum-1.0.0 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install
Configure ld.so.conf so it can see the libspectrum libraries.
$ sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libspectrum.conf Put the following line into nano, save and exit. /usr/local/lib $ sudo ldconfig
Now extract, compile and install FUSE. This can take up to 30 minuets on the original Pi, so be patient! Much quicker on the Pi 2.
$ cd .. $ tar xvfz fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz $ cd fuse-1.0.0.1a $ ./configure --with-sdl $ make $ sudo make install
Thats it – FUSE should have compiled successfully. Run the command fuse to start the emulator. Copy over your TZX, TAP, DSK files etc over SFTP using a client like Filezilla.
Feel free to paste a comment below to let me know how you get on, or to let me know if there are any mistakes in my instructions.
Thanks for the guide!! This worked with a couple of minor changes I needed to make on my Raspbian install:
Slight change to the edit cmd:
sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf/libspectrum.conf -> sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libspectrum.conf
I needed to rename the downloaded .gz:
mv fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz?r=http:%2F%2Ffuse-emulator.sourceforge.net%2F&ts=1345580383&use_mirror=dfn fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz
and “cd .. ” back into src before starting the FUSE build.
Other than those minor details it worked great, thanks!
Excellent – thanks for the quick write-up! (Manic Miner is currently running on the desk behind me…)
Using Weezy, I also had to rename the fuse archive, but the downloaded name was:
fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz?r=http:%2F%2Ffuse-emulator.sourceforge.net%2F
…and then after running tar, I had to cd into the fuse-1.0.0.1a directory before running configure.
There’s also a very minor typo – a stray ” character on the end of the sourceforge wget. As I say very minor, but bound to trip up the cut&paste 😉
Thanks for the fault finding! I use Linux daily so I probably type commands without thinking about it!
Post has been updated.
Yes I use it less, so I usually end up having to look up commands which aren’t your day to day Unix shell commands 🙂
hi)) also try to build this emu (SDL version)
http://code.google.com/p/unrealspeccyp/wiki/build_linux
Was this compiled on Squeeze or Wheezy? I’m having issues on Wheezy with the libaudiofile-dev. I get an error when compiling libspectrum about the audio-config not being found. When the whole process is finished there’s no sound in FUSE?
Hi I get an libspectrum.h usability no error when I run the .configure –with-sdl line 🙁
Another big fat waste of time… Thanks anyway. This is what went wrong. I don,t know enough tech to fix it… Perhaps it,ll be useful to someone else –
pi@raspberrypi ~/src $ mv fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz?r=http:%2F%2Ffuse-emulator.sourceforge.net%2F fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz
mv: cannot stat `fuse-1.0.0.1a.tar.gz?r=http:%2F%2Ffuse-emulator.sourceforge.net%2F’: No such file or directory
pi@raspberrypi ~/src $ tar xvfz libspectrum-1.0.0.tar.gz
tar (child): libspectrum-1.0.0.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
@Dave – I have updated the guide. World of Spectrum have has issues lately, so I have pointed the guide to another location for libspectrum-1.0.0.tar.gz
Excuse my ignorance but I’m not familiar with SDL – what do I need to do to get it running under SDL – is this another install ?
I used to have Fuse running nicely under LXDE on Wheezy before I trashed my Raspberry to get Jessie/PIXEL. Following your instructions, I can’t run fuse from the command line (probably because I haven’t got SDL) and running Fuse under the PIXEL desktop gives a tiny screen and no windows menus as Fuse did when I previously ran it under Wheezy