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Welcome to the RetroNAS Wiki. Please select a documentation link from the sidebar on the right.
This project is currently in alpha status. Things are changing rapidly, and likely to break currently. By all means use it, but if you're not an intermediate to advanced user, check back in about a month when the major framework has settled down and it's ready for beta status, and more user friendly.
RetroNAS aims to provide a user-friendly way to install a wide range of tools that support Network Attached Storage ("NAS") for older / retro systems.
RetroNAS can be installed on a Raspberry Pi (or a small Virtual Machine), and through a simple user menu individual items can be installed to provide network file sharing to a wide array of old computers and consoles, while also allowing modern computers access so that the contents of the NAS can be easily managed, or new tools and software added as required.
Several devices can share RetroNAS at once. For example, if a setup consists of several old computers, consoles, RetroPie or MiSTer FPGA style emulation devices all on the same network, all of these can access the same pool of software and games via the network, instead of having to rely on "sneakernet" file transfer on floppies or USB/CF/SD media.
The Wiki is currently under development, and in a bit of a mess for now. Efforts will be taken to turn it into some ordered thing with properly organised sections soon. For now, probably start with:
Have an old/vintage/retro computer and wondering how this project can help you?
RetroNAS authors are entirely grateful to the wider open source computer and console development, preservation and hacking communities, all of whom constantly give away their hard work for free so that we can keep our old hardware alive, and preserve their contents.
In late January 2022, Bob from RetroRGB and myself had a 90 minute chat about RetroNAS. All the things done so far, all the future plans. Things have already changed and some of the topics are already either in the works or already added. But hopefully it gives you an idea of what the project goals are longer term.
