MiSTer FPGA Forum

Remember that the 3DO is a 5th generation console like the PlayStation, Saturn and the N64 and would take a similar amount of effort to implement. All the work on the "core" at this point is the exploratory work to figure out a feasible architecture for the DE-10 nano. No actual implementation has been started.

RexMendicorvm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 4:07 pm

Just upgraded to 256 ram and I'm giving this core a go. I've tried a few games but I can't progress beyond the cube; any tips on making it work?

Where did you get the core from? I'm pretty sure the only version that will load more than a couple games in the experimental version of on the Discord server. It also requires dual ram.

His last update on this project was 2 1/2 years ago saying it was temporarily on hold. I doubt we'll ever see this now.

Calamity wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:42 pm

Jeruro wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:39 pm

It would be nice to run GroovyMame on a Raspberry Pi next to Mister.

If you like small things, get a mini pc. Raspberry Pi won't cut it.

I wonder about this though. The Raspberry PI 5 single core performance appears to be roughly double the Intel Core Duo 2 E8400 setup I've been running Groovymame on for the last decade.

I think you need at least version 2.5 of the 128mb RAM and preferably version 2.9.

2019 predates all those revisions of RAM.

dcubed wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 5:35 pm

MiSTer won't be able to offer features like Save States, Transfer Pak support or Overclocking,

I wouldn't bet on that.

Bas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 1:06 pm

The net is going TLS for just about everything nowadays. No browser on Win95 will support that.

I would assume he wants to browse sites from that era that are still online. But yeah, you can't browse modern sites using Win95.

The PSX core could be more accurate by implementing the CD hardware faithfully and improving the timings on future FPGA hardware that doesn't have the same limitations as the DE-10 Nano. That's sure to happen at some point in the future, it should be remembered how young the PSX core is at this point when comparing it to PC emulators.

rhester72 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:50 pm

• There's pretty much nothing you can do in FPGA that you can't do in software, except efficient mass-scale parallelization

The importance of this can't be understated.

FPGA64 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:26 pm

We already have it for the C64. HW exists to connect a real 1541

Support for a real 1541 is one thing because its controller has its own CPU and talks over a slow interface. Getting the C64 core to talk to a PC floppy drive would involve implementing that controller in the core and doing similar things that are being done with the Amiga support.

Quad everything!!

Other games benefit too and more choice is always better.

That's how users learn though and eventually they'll stop messing with things they don't understand. We can't just dumb down the entire project and not implement features that would benefit nearly everyone because a few people won't understand it.

It's a bigger problem for arcade cores because the scan frequency can be way out of spec for TVs and RGB monitors. The console and computer cores really shouldn't have as many issues.

Those panels are all very old though, there has been a lot of advancement in LCD technology in the last 14 years.

The last 4:3 panels were all manufactured in 2009 and have lots of issues compared to modern panels or any type.

It's probably a pretty difficult project since blackwine and jimmystones have already gotten most of the low hanging fruit.

Implementing operand forwarding into the current core would go a long way into making it behave and feel more like a real i486.

The Y/C cores mostly improve over the original implementation. The philosophy in general for video on this project is to improve it over the original. It's what most of us want here.

netbeui wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:32 pm

Hi I ordered a composite/s-video board from Antonio back in July 2020. Does anyone know if this board should work with the YC cores? I configured the ini and tried it on a CRT and a PVM but I don’t get a signal on composite or s-video

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It will not.

Is there a test you can run to see if it improves PSX core sound latency? It's sort of crazy these settings have never been played with until now.