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The beauty of the Mister is that we can finally ditch that god-awful rubber keyboard, and use a modern keyboard.... I also have a few 48k spectrums here, and I try to use the keyboard less, and less. I now use a Comcon Joystick interface that allows keyboard-only games to be mapped to this device - just to avoid that keyboard. :lol: Tiny minds, so...

But not as ridiculous as wanting to erase an iconic system from the Mister's cores, just because one system plays another. I mean, the stupid argument, earlier on the thread, regarding the Sega Game Gear, and the Master System - both COMPLETELY different systems. One is a handheld with an LCD, one is a console that connects to a CRT. The Game Gear ...

I can only conclude this post is some kind of attempt to start drama, but I will address one thing: The way my core is written, if you back ported all the parts of it that improve upon the 2600, you would just end up with the 7800 core, with maria and the control register disabled. I personally wouldn't be willing to maintain such a needless extra...

Obviously maintaining separate code bases would be needless and silly. No more silly than the many arcade cores, or the many computer cores, or the many consoles cores, or the utterly pointless ScummVM core - but it exists. Nobody here has the right to right-off THE most iconic console of all time. NOBODY. You don't get to say what gets deleted or...

Excellent. A very MSX-like machine.
I have two machines here, they're monsters, and dwarf many 80s computers.

The BEST 2600, is a 2600. Is this a preservation device ? Or a populist device ? In all seriousness, if the only thing bothering you is the term "7800" vs "2600", just add an entry to names.txt to change it to something that suits you better. I don't care about the 7800, it was full of crapware, and instantly forgettable games. ...

The Megadrive plays Mastersystem games, so should we get rid of the Mastersystem core ? Real SNES can play Gameboy games via the Super Game Boy Adapter, not sure about the core, but if it does then should we get rid of the Gameboy core ? WonderSwan Color, can play Wonderswan mono games, hey lets get rid of that pesky Wonderswan core, right ? Oh, bu...

Atari 800 Dropzone Good man! The only way to play Dropzone is on the Atari! Even Archer MacLean agreed it was the best version There were quite a lot of titles where the Atari bettered other systems, especially the C64. Bruce Lee, Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus, Elektra Glide, Koronis Rift, The Eidolon, Drelbs, Alley Cat, Encounter, Spy vs Spy ga...

You haven't typed much on a Spectrum right? I have owned a 16k ZX Spectrum, upgraded to 48k back in the 80s, since xmas 1982. When I got it, all I had was a couple of C&VG magazines which had spectrum listings in to type-in. That was it, I had no tape deck, or games at xmas 82. It wasn't until Jan 83 that I was able to get a tape deck, and som...

The beauty of the Mister is that we can finally ditch that god-awful rubber keyboard, and use a modern keyboard, with modern cherry switches. I use a Razor Blackwidow, it's got lovely clicky blue switches, and soooo much better to use than a speccy keyboard. I also have a few 48k spectrums here, and I try to use the keyboard less, and less. I now u...

How about some 8-bit Shmups ? Arcade Astro Blaster - Sega Astro Fighter - Data East Espial - Orca Galmedes - Visco Starforce - Tehkan Star Jacker - Sega Vulgus - Capcom I seem to be missing all of the above, except Star Jacker and of course Vulgus 🤔 Different .mra naming maybe? Apologies, for some reason I keep thinking about MAME 2003plus, which ...

How about some 8-bit Shmups ? Sega Mastersystem Aleste Astro Warrior Power Strike II Atari 800 Dropzone Laser Gates Threshold Thunderfox Warhawk Zybex Commodore 64 Armalyte Delta Metal Dust Parallax Sanxion Uridium Zynaps Atari 2600 Allia Quest Beamrider Demon Attack Mega Mania Pleiades River Raid Solaris NES Gradius II Over Horizon Arcade Astro Bl...

Sega Megadrive/Genesis
Arrow Flash
Bio Hazard Battle
Darius II
Eliminate Down
Empire Of Steel
Fire Shark
Gaiares
Gley Lancer
Granada
Grind Stormer
Hellfire
Insector X
Phelios
Task Force Harrier EX
Truxton
Twin Cobra
Vapor Trail
Verytex
Viewpoint
Whip Rush
Wings Of Wor
Zero Wing

PC Engine
Gunhed

What also makes me laugh is that people think putting lines across your screen, instantly means scanlines - it doesn't. It's just lines on your screen, which is why your image is now darker. Another hilarious "Feature", is the up and coming shadow masks. Seriously, these look nothing like a real CRT, and you are only deluding yourself if ...

Retro games will always look best on the display hardware they were meant for, CRT.
And this OLED shite is just that, shite. It will never match a pro-grade PVM, or CRT. But you don't NEED a PVM, a consumer-grade CRT will do far better than any modern rubbish.

Well, I give up on 50hz modes working for me, must be the controller board. Tried everything, including some settings used by some in this thread such as vsync_adjust=2 (this was on, anyway), and video_mode_pal=7 - one thing about this setting, it says in the ini "You need to supply both PAL and NTSC modes", should there be both modes in ...

Is there any chance of this core getting tape image support ?
I did all the tape-loading thing back in the 80s, I don't really want to do it in 2021.

Interesting, so you are saying the info on this page is incorrect?

Yes, it's incorrect.

iPad Air 3 is a 10.5" Screen. The iPad 3 is a 9.7" Screen. This is what I am using, and what the topic is about.

bazza_12 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:11 pm hang on...... you got a lawnmower..........???? woah there nellie.. what type.. flymo or old fashion petrol driven?

I'll have know, it's a petrol. But not any petrol, oh no, this is a HONDA!!. Take that, Plastic Jesus.

A couple of days research, and he could have uploaded a very positive video. Instead, he moans about things he clearly doesn't understand, and this is not only illustrated in the comments, it's projected in the comments. Read some of the comments, like "The Mister can't even play DOS games, so it must be crap" - ok, this is loosely based ...

He's a show boater, a performer. He wants clicks, and eyes watching his videos, so he can make money. People like him seem to commercialise retro, and turn it into a profit-making thing, rather than a love of the actual hardware. He also likes to show off. "Look at me, everyone, look at what I have, and you don't" type of videos. There ar...

And this should really be a separate thread since it’s not related to this combination of boards/screens. While I agree, I do think it's right that the advice on this forum is for the correct board + serial number, or many will be disappointed when they buy one, and it doesn't do PAL 50hz. Thanks for the video mode, I will see if it's the same as ...

It’s the LP097QX1 display with the VS-RTD09703-V1 driver board. We did lag testing, this is the sub-1-frame board. The only reason I mentioned it earlier was that there’s always a risk that they run out of boards and put in something else, but for $60 fully assembled, it’s a risk worth taking. Everyone I know that got this one so far had the exact...

It doesn't do 50hz. None of my PAL cores work on the Retina display. That has nothing to do with the display, and everything to do with which driver board you are using. I spend most of my time in the Amiga core (mostly PAL, 49.9Hz), and it works perfectly. The exact range for this particular driver board is 48.7-63.7Hz. I am using the one that wa...

It doesn't do 50hz. None of my PAL cores work on the Retina display.

Surely the IP address can be seen before you switch the Mister off, after the update ?
It won't change after the update, mine never has.
Lastly, could the SDCard, somehow, maybe getting corrupted during the final stage ?
Are you putting the sdcard in the first slot, not the second SD slot on the IO board ?

Thanks for the rbf, Yim.
I will test this on my 8833 MkII, but I will also try my 9" PVM, just to see how that looks.
Makes you wonder how the other cores compare to the real thing, on a CRT. I have a lot of real hardware, and everdrives, or modern SDCard solutions, so I could do some testing, and get some photos.

Edit: I think I had something closer to the SC1224. Will have to see if I can find it... The SC1224 should do 50hz, it was built for the ST, anyway. Problem is, if I can remember, it has a fixed input connector, so you probably won't be able to make use of it. Not sure if it could be adapted or not. This was the reason I got the SC1435, as it's ju...