MiSTer FPGA Forum

for interfacing a Floppy Drive have a look at the chip used on later model PC motherboards, they used a Low Pin Count interface. the parts are still available.

https://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/lega ... ls/vt1211/

exactly how much clearance do you need? a svelte cable could be made by crimping naked twisted pairs into the connector combined with trimming away the excess material after the strain relief, so that the plug may sit flush with the socket. Yes, one can do that. It still looks strange and it somehow solves the problem just for that one. An USB2LAN...

exactly how much clearance do you need? a svelte cable could be made by crimping naked twisted pairs into the connector combined with trimming away the excess material after the strain relief, so that the plug may sit flush with the socket.

why do you need USB Ethernet support? The standard LAN port is somehow unfavorable placed (opposite side of video output) and ethernet cables are not the most flexible (even if UTP). The USB adapter would help with cable laying and would increase port placement flexibility. HA you should see my rig, there is something plugged into every side!

who has Blister adapter cables? I'm still looking for SNES and NEO GEO adapters.

why do you need USB Ethernet support?

I remember reading about this 8 bit bus Motorola 68K kit computer in the early 90's, archival information about the series of Radio Electronics Magazine articles can be found here. from what I have found by digging thru back issues the series ran for 13 issues of the magazine, ending with the coverage of the Atari ST Computer system. sadly I have y...

another thought I just had was having a ISA adapter card made so the DE-10 nano could be plugged into a passive backplane board. the spec sheet claims there are 145 user configurable GPIO pins available. perhaps this could be configured to work with the SDRAM by way of a CPLD chip.

dmckean wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:08 am I can't locate actual schematics for the ES5503 but there is a lot of information on how it worked and it's exact timings.

I would think for now that building out a IIGS core minus that one component would be of greater benefit then arguing about it absence.

good afternoon, all after running the ao486 MISTer core for some time. i have a few items wish-list items that seem to be missing. -- a clone of the intel 486dx -- on bored cash 128kb -- ram size options 4mb / 8mb / 16mb -- its 64mb at current witch is over kill and lowers compatible titles -- ibm os2 support -- support for direct draw -- an 16 bi...

IIGS would be a tough core to do. Not so much for the CPU and graphic modes, as they are pretty straightforward - but for the unique Ensoniq sound chip. Unless it's similar to another sound chip that has been done, it's a lot of work from scratch. even a partial IIGS core is more than we have now. IMHO sound can wait get "something" goin...

yeah I have one, it's just another thing to setup and maintain, thus my interest in trying it on the MiSTer FPGA board

the FPGA has ARM cores, and supports USB WiFi devices, so I don't see why it should not work.

anyone working on a core for the RC2014 Z80 based computer?

has anyone tried installing the supporting software to use the RTL-SDR tuner dongle for radio stuff in the Mister Linux system?

I think all the scripts are not even described anywhere. I think the problems you had are due to the fact that on a newly installed board the clock contains garbage and must be set before you can use the -u function. You can also set the time zone with the timezone.sh. yeah pretty much, nothing would work till I manually set the time to something ...

Bas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 11:27 am Try this one works. Boots into Ultima 8 but If it does that, at least you'll know your setup is ok.

https://www.area536.com/img/reviews/ultima8/ultima8.zip

Yup that worked Thank You!

Bas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:01 am The update_all.sh script does this stuff for you plus a lot more. https://github.com/theypsilon/Update_All_MiSTer

yep that did it, now I can pull up the ao486 config menu.

Thank You!

now to figure out how to get it to boot

Bas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 6:24 am That's strange. Is the bios in the right place?

IDK

tontonkaloun wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:04 pm Hello,

with the latest core version, windows 95 doesn't like empty ide ports.
You just have to put a small virgin vhd to the empty ide port, and you can start win95
then you can delete them

how can you configure that without using the Windows key + F12? I can't bring that menu up after starting the AO486 core.

Bas wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:23 am Windows key+F12 gets you back into the menu.

that doesn't work on my board. once I select the ao486 core and it fails to boot pressing Win key +F12 does nothing.

Bas wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:21 pm What would be cool for this core is an Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller..

yeah along with something like a Mountain CD7 External SCSI 7 Disc CD-ROM Changer!

Malan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:05 pm +1 for native VGA output with the I/O board. It would be insane!

is there enough IO to support multi-monitor outputs?

Hi, I'm having a devil of a time trying to get my ao486 core to boot for the first time, so I'm interested in learning if there is a way to configure the core from my PC to specify the disk images attached to said core. my interest in doing so is spurred from my seeming inability to access the setup menu after a failed boot attempt in the ao486 cor...

yeah I discovered you have to set the system time first manually before anything on that page will work.

Where are the instructions for setting up the RTC for the first time?

ash2fpga wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:22 pm

-N2 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:20 pm How do I access the configuration menu for this core? I've tried all the Function keys and that didn't work.

WIN+F12
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer#note

Doesn't seem to work, I tried each of the windows keys+F12.

How do I access the configuration menu for this core? I've tried all the Function keys and that didn't work.

is there a core for these Sinclair QL successor boards? http://www.q40.de/index.html

to ask the same question another way, What cores can be run without the SDRAM module installed?