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2025

December 2025: Lucia Preview

Lots of development focused RetroDECK 0.10.0b and 0.11.0b news.

The RetroDECK Team have been hard at work stirring the development cauldron.


Happy Holidays & Happy New Year

As the final blog post of the year, the team wishes everyone happy holidays to those who celebrate. We also extend warm wishes for a wonderful Lucia Day to our friends in Italy and the Nordic countries, and a Happy New Year to all.

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Highlights

News

  • Happy Holidays & Happy New Year
  • 0.10.0b Testing Status
  • Preview: W.I.P. Patch Notes 0.10.0b
  • Preview: 0.11.0b DOSBox-X

November 2025: Finally a fatpak

Lots of development focused RetroDECK 0.10.0b news.

The RetroDECK Team have been hard at work stirring the development cauldron.

We also wish you a ๐Ÿฆƒ Happy Thanksgiving ๐Ÿฆƒ for those that celebrate it.

Highlights

News

  • Testing has started
  • What has science done: A fatpak?
  • RetroDECK 0.10.0b - What is in it and what is not?
  • Important: On Ponzu
  • What's new?
  • Testing will Start Soon
  • Whatโ€™s coming next?

October 2025: Haunted Architectural Decisions

Lots of development focused RetroDECK 0.10.0b news.

The RetroDECK Team have been hard at work stirring the development cauldron.

We also wish you a ๐ŸŽƒ Happy Halloween ๐ŸŽƒ for those that celebrate it.

Highlights

News

  • Lahrs joined the Team

RetroDECK 0.10.0b - Status

  • Merger of component_libs and component_recipe
  • RetroDECK Alchemist: Pluginโ€‘Based Component Assembler
  • Library Hunter & Gatherer
  • Next Steps

September 2025: Components, Components, Components!

Lots of development focused RetroDECK 0.10.0b news.

The RetroDECK Team have been hard at work stirring the development cauldron.

Highlights

  • Switched from Patreon to OpenCollective
  • ImCoKeMaN & PortMaster Team - Added more ports
  • RetroDECK 0.10.0b - Status
  • New Components Under Development
  • Storage folder
  • Lahrs folder Icons

June 2025: Putting Together all the Components

Lots of development focused RetroDECK 0.10.0b news.

The RetroDECK Team have been hard at work stirring the development cauldron.

Highlights

  • PerfectDark's Team Q&A's over at Lemmy
  • New Component System
  • RetroDECK API
  • W.I.P Development Guides
  • Argh Technobabble: What does it all mean?!
  • Summer Update: Slower Pace in July

May 2025: Mad Community Scientists

Experiments, mad science and heresy in the community.

Highlights

  • MORE! RetroDECK Experiments โš—๏ธ on the Wiki
  • Experiment: Autoboot into RetroDECK and not Game Mode
  • Experiment: RetroDECK ES-DE Background Music
  • Experiment: Launching Games & Apps with RetroDECK (Flatpak, Steam, Minecraft, Lutris, Heroic)
  • Experiment: Launching External Emulators
  • Experiment: Run RetroDECK in WSL on Windows 11
  • RetroDECK Team Q&A over at Lemmy
  • Any status on 0.10.0b?

March 2025: Community Showcase

Things are happening in the community.

Highlights

  • RetroDECK 0.9.1b was Released
  • Repair-Paths Tool
  • Experiments โš—๏ธ on the Wiki
  • murkl's experiment - Launching Desktop Apps with RetroDECK
  • Lahrs Folder Icon Packs