**By:** webdevel@sparkhausmedia.com (Anonymous User (Linux Magazine))
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Miniature retro computers like THEC64 and THEA500 let you replay some of the classic home computer games from the 1980s and 1990s.
Under the hood, their modern CPUs run Linux, letting you do much more.
Do you own one of the Retro Games mini consoles, such as a THEA500 Mini (Commodore Amiga) or THEC64 Mini (Commodore C64), The Spectrum (Sinclair ZX Spectrum), or THE400 (Atari 400)? They are great gadgets for playing retro games, but they also run a Linux kernel, so you can connect a USB keyboard and turn the toy into a text-mode terminal.
Some of these machines will even let you connect an Ethernet adapter or a WiFi dongle so that you can log in to other machines.
Because none of the Retro Games machines were intended to be used as anything other than emulators for the classic home computers that they mimic, getting shell access requires a hack.
There are three ways this can be accomplished (two are easy and one is a bit more complicated):
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[Run a Shell on THEC64 and THEA500](http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2026/310/Linux-Shell-on-THEC64-THEA500)
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