FUSE autostart on DietPi

DietPi is a lightweight linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi

I used it to install FUSE emulator and made it to autostart within 14 seconds.

First download the image on https://dietpi.com/

And burn the image on a SD card. https://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9#p9

Put the card i your Raspberry Pi, connect a keyboard, connect it to internet and a monitor and fire it up. The first time, booting takes ages.

logon as root by using

root as login

dietpi as password.

After a while you are offered the option to change the password. As we are not using internet anymore and only the ZX Spectrum emulator FUSE it is not really needed to change the password.

Now leave the setup program and login to the command prompt

Now its time to install the zx spectrum emulator.

sudo apt-get install fuse-emulator-sdl spectrum-roms fuse-emulator-utils

check if Fuse is working OK

fuse-sdl

If the ZX Spectrum starts you can leave it again by pressing

F1

File

Exit

Yes

Now we have to make it autostart so you should run

sudo dietpi-config

and choose option 9 Autostart.

There you get a menu where you can choose your own autostart script. If you select this, an empty script is made.

Now leave dietpi-config.

On the commandprompt type:

sudo nano /var/lib/dietpi/dietpi-autostart/custom.sh

On the bottom of this file add these two commands:

fuse-sdl

sudo poweroff

Leave nano with X and select yes to save the changes.

This makes the Pi to run FUSE as emulator and if you end FUSE, the pi is powered down, so that the SDcard is properly closed before you can power your emulator off.

If you need a conditional poweroff write this small script instead de sudo poweroff

read -p 'Shutdown the computer? y / n' uit

if [ "$uit" == "y" ];

then sudo poweroff

fi

echo you can login now

sleep 5

When you put the SDcard in your computer, now you can add tzx, tap, z80 files to your home directory. You can also add additional rom images for e.g. the opus discovery of other zx spectrum hardware. After you did that, put the SDcard in the Raspberry Pi again and restart the pi and play.

Enjoy.