He wasn't building a server. He wasn't building a workstation.
Most people stuck to the easy route—Raspberry Pis running RetroPie. But Marcus was a purist. He knew that ARM processors, while efficient, were faking it. They were translating the language of the past into something modern. He wanted the raw, unadulterated x86 architecture. He wanted the native tongue of the 90s and early 2000s. emuelec x86
Even the best setups have hiccups.
Official versions of do not currently support x86 architectures (standard PCs or laptops). It is built specifically for Amlogic and some Rockchip ARM-based devices, such as Android TV boxes and handhelds. He wasn't building a server
Marcus plugged in the single USB flash drive. It glowed a faint, eerie blue. On it was the Holy Grail of the retrogaming underground: . But Marcus was a purist
The official EmuELEC project is strictly optimized for (and some Rockchip handhelds like the Odroid Go Advance). There is no official x86 (PC) release of EmuELEC.
EmuELEC is primarily built for Amlogic SOCs (e.g., S905, S912, S905X4) [1, 3, 9]. x86 Alternatives: