MiSTer FPGA Forum

aberu wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:37 pmAh well, it's such a bargain for the whole board, beggars can't be choosers, but still...

Scotch tape it firmly in place and use the console to transfer files?
I've put my card in and out many times without a problem but now
just use the console and Midnight Commander to transfer files.

There's dozens of arcade cores that have worked fine without a lick of sprite corruption and the problem
with his cores was fixed through software so it's absurd to blame caps and flux for the issue.
Though I do suspect sea level rise due to global warming might be partly responsible.

redsteakraw wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 1:21 pmWell who knows what went down. I will keep this one out of airports and border checkpoints to be cautious.
By the way here is the setup

https://imgur.com/a/o5S0Aek

Nice!
I have a case like that I think I got from Harbor Freight.

Why all these wild explanations when in fact all other cores worked with the Winbond chips?
There was a problem between the code and the Winbond chips that are now fixed.
Caps, flux, and global warming have nothing to do with it.

redsteakraw wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:37 pmIt fits easily into the metal case I found in the back of a Hooter's parkinglot, which is my new go to travel case.

Do you know what was in the case?
Will drug dogs flip out if they smell it?
Cool story though.

Look, I have it on good authority no one will ever need more than 640k of memory! I haven't kept up with this core and don't have the space to seriously mess around with it and here I see a thread saying MiSTer is almost the perfect DOS machine. I'm going to try hard to ignore all this until y'all force me to get more MiSTer storage with a "We...

I know of the davewoo999 and Gehstock Space Invaders core. I suppose it is up to the authors to allow their cores to become official. Not sure which version I have of SI on my MiSTer but it seems to run ok for me but I am not a Master Space Invaders player. The cores come about due to interest by developers and a few came about from those learning ...

As Sorgelig reasonably points out in his post Disclamer from "angry" Sorgelig :) he is a hobbyist who wants to work on the cores and develop MiSTer, not spend time answering the same question again and again on the forums. The fact that he has worked so hard to set up these forums and answer questions is something we shouldn't take for g...

You can get a board for about $10-15 called a VGA32 that has an ESP32 on it with ps2 mouse and keyboard port, sdcard port. and a VGA port
that can emulate a VIC20.
Cheap, small, and works ok.

netbeui wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:39 amDarn.. ok thanks for letting me know. It's too bad cause the rotary dial on it is quite smooth and feels really good.

Make one using an encoder.
Check the forum, code is out there.

Very nice, I like it!

I like CP/M machines and surely others do.
If you build the core the users will come.

Is it allowed to just share unreleased cores here? I don't want to get in trouble. I wish the SNAC code would just get included in the main build. A developer has the code but is probably super busy and hasn't gotten to including it yet. Post a link. People share unreleased cores all the time. The core owner is the one who controls it so if they a...

It seems to be related to the trend in some tech industry players to consider certain words hurtful. In this case, GitHub has changed the naming of the principle branch of repositories from ‘Master’ to ‘Main’... but only in newly-created repositories. This change appears to have been committed within the past few days. The updater script apparentl...

Have you seen the TTGO VGA32 board?
ESP32 with VGA and PS2 keyboard and mouse connector and a sdcard slot.....
Right now there is a VIC20 and Spectrum emulators you can run on it.

Skeeter wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:49 amI didn't have any SDRAM before and carts wouldn't load until after I added it. 32 is probably fine for this, I just added 128 to cover everything for now.

Ah!
How are you enjoying your system now?

Nice job!

redsteakraw wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:02 amThat being said I don't have tokens but I have quarters. If I am able to get a batch of tokens I might switch to tokens or I might make my own design for custom tokens.

Aladin's Castle was the largest US chain of arcade stores and pretty famous.
It's cool enough just to have a coin mech.

I thought cartidges ran fine with the 32mb memory module.
Since when does it require 128mb?
An Atari 800xl never had even 1mb of memory....

grizzly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:53 am Here i was thinking you where asking What's inside an FPGA? before opening the tread.
And was going to answer cheese doodles because chips is to obvious of an answer .

The cheese doodles are there only to feed the microscopic squirrels that do the work.

Bally Aladin's Castle tokens are what you need to use!

Get a 32mb ram addon unless you are ok with spending more but only the Neo Geo core needs more memory.

Pierco wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:03 pm It's done, I added the two cores to the main repo.

Thanks!

Certainly no need to discourage somebody from trying! By all means, if you have the interest do it up. After all, that is how we got MiSTer. Just wanted to make sure you know a DE-10 is sold for less than they should cost. The key point is that you DON'T have to spend that much. Less than $200 is enough to start to play with MiSTer. And then later...

I thought the DE-10 nano was essentially subsidized making it cost far less than it should.
Making different add on boards seem more logical than trying to make some all in one board that will end up
costing a lot more than a standard MiSTer for little to no advantage.

Here something that I don’t get, if jammasd has 25 ms of input lag , how can the light gun work? As far as I know the light gun detection works with a perfect sync system between the screen and the gun light beam , offsync just one frame and nothing will be detected, am I wrong ? Go look at what human visual reaction time actually is and you'll se...

Another interesting unexpected MiSTer core!
Sounds like you enjoyed writing it!
Thanks!

Stopped reading at "This means that unlike software emulation, you will never find a game that is compatible with original hardware that is incompatible with an FPGA". Articles like this aren't meant for those as knowledgeable as you. I see stuff like that all the time and try to ignore the ignorance, usually without much success. The go...

reanimator wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:36 pm What are you using for bootroms? I'd like to have a bootrom set up for each core.

Use the readme for each core and search for the proper bootroms.
Some cores have more than one option.
As well organized as MiSTer is most cores are naturally different....