Wishlist of Cores You Would Like to See in the Future

[kathleen]

+1 @Ray

The Atari TT and Falcon computers are amazing computers but too often forgotten.
I'd like also to see those computers. Moreover at the day of today, there is no really "good/complete" falcon emulator. In terms of price it is a computer hardly not possible to acquire (same for the TT) so yes a Falcon/TT core will be a great thing.

[Chris23235]

+1 @Ray

The Atari TT and Falcon computers are amazing computers but too often forgotten.
I'd like also to see those computers. Moreover at the day of today, there is no really "good/complete" falcon emulator. In terms of price it is a computer hardly not possible to acquire (same for the TT) so yes a Falcon/TT core will be a great thing.

I can imagine that some people would be very interested in getting a possibility to run Cubase Audio without to invest in a real Falcon.

[kathleen]

Yes, this is true for Cubase, and also for the use of the Falcon's DSP.

[Shuffle7]

Could anyone do WARDNER - it was a extremely popular coin op in the late 80’s. It’s very solid platformer with good music and atmosphere

[Hetzen]

Could anyone do WARDNER - it was a extremely popular coin op in the late 80’s. It’s very solid platformer with good music and atmosphere

Agree, Wardner is a great game.

[towd]

with regards to the 3DO M2, will the recent source code dump bring this closer to being possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXrredFQhk

[limi]

with regards to the 3DO M2, will the recent source code dump bring this closer to being possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXrredFQhk

No. The M2 is a dual PowerPC 602 design clocked at 66MHz with a bunch of other chips, think of it more in the same range of capabilities and generation as the Nintendo 64 (which also wouldn’t be possible on the DE-10 nano). Also, what was dumped was the SDK — the software to make games for the hardware — and would mostly just be useful to test specific behaviors. It’s not like the schematics/design of the custom chips.

The original 3DO should be doable in theory, but who knows if anyone is passionate enough about its library to give it a shot.

In any case, once you get to the more advanced 3D consoles, cycle accuracy is less important, and emulators generally do a great job, with the advantage of being able to upscale textures, run at higher resolutions, etc.

MiSTer covers a perfect range of computers and consoles, IMO — once you get to the consoles past the Sega Saturn, there are better options. Of course I understand the desire to have “one box that does all the consoles that I don’t have”, but PSX and Saturn are likely the most complex consoles that will happen on the DE-10 nano FPGA.

[teller]

I wish to see an EXELVISION EXL 100 core in future. The EXL 100 is a computer released in 1984 by the French brand Exelvision, based on the TMS 7020 microprocessor from Texas Instruments. More infos here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXL_100

[H6rdc0re]

with regards to the 3DO M2, will the recent source code dump bring this closer to being possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXrredFQhk

No way. The 3DO M2 would have been a console somewhere in between the N64 and Dreamcast.

[pepito]

PSP
Atari TT and Falcon

[KnightoftheWind]

with regards to the 3DO M2, will the recent source code dump bring this closer to being possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXrredFQhk

No. The M2 is a dual PowerPC 602 design clocked at 66MHz with a bunch of other chips, think of it more in the same range of capabilities and generation as the Nintendo 64 (which also wouldn’t be possible on the DE-10 nano). Also, what was dumped was the SDK — the software to make games for the hardware — and would mostly just be useful to test specific behaviors. It’s not like the schematics/design of the custom chips.

The original 3DO should be doable in theory, but who knows if anyone is passionate enough about its library to give it a shot.

In any case, once you get to the more advanced 3D consoles, cycle accuracy is less important, and emulators generally do a great job, with the advantage of being able to upscale textures, run at higher resolutions, etc.

MiSTer covers a perfect range of computers and consoles, IMO — once you get to the consoles past the Sega Saturn, there are better options. Of course I understand the desire to have “one box that does all the consoles that I don’t have”, but PSX and Saturn are likely the most complex consoles that will happen on the DE-10 nano FPGA.

I wonder if "MiSTer 2.0" will be a thing in the future, something capable of running an N64 FPGA.

[EeDee]

Nascom I/II/III
Commodore 128

[Captain FPGA]

CPS3
Hyper Neo Geo 64
Zn1 board
Zn2 board

[seastalker]

Arcade: S.T.U.N. Runner, Hard Drivin' series, Pit Fighter, APB, Shadow Dancer, The NewZealand Story
Computer: Atari Falcon, Commodore 128, Apple IIGS (there is a WIP), IBM 5100
Console: CDi, 3DO, Jaguar CD
Other: LASERDISC based systems [though I realize the analog/digital challenges]

[bankshot]

Arcade: S.T.U.N. Runner

Man, +1 on this...I spent a lot of tokens on this game back in the day and it was such a blast!

[retro]

Atari Jaguar + CD
Philips CD-i
3DO

Any of those LaserDisc systems currently emulated with Daphne and Singe would be great too

[Mr. Encyclopedia]

Panic Playdate
Pocket PC (Windows Mobile 2003)
Palm III / V
Apple Newton
N-Gage

and just release the Sega Pico core I don't care if it doesn't have support for the book part.

[Grandiloquence]

Casio Loopy. That is all.

[kathleen]

Two of my wishes that I have listed are on the way, the PC-XT and the Commodore 128. I cross my finger to see one day my third wish, the Atari Falcon.
We should maybe fill a shared spreadsheet and strikethrough what has been fulfilled.

[barfood]

Zoo Keeper (arcade), for the incredible sound effects!

[AtomicShroom]

Battletoads Arcade would be really nice if possible.

[TrevorKevorson]

A couple that come to mind at the moment are:

Amiga CD32 (not sure how easy that would be? Possibly an extension to the Minimig core?)
Atari TT (I was a huge Atari fanboi back in the 80s and 90s and the TT was the holy grail until the Falcon came along)
3D0
Philips CD-i
Legionnaire arcade game (doing a bit of Googling suggests that it's Mame driver is based on Toki and D-Con drivers, don't know if that would make creating a core any easier or not?).

To be fair, I've just got a DE10 Nano and I'm amazed how a new core seems to pop up every week or so, the developers are amazing.

Rob

[Captain FPGA]

Neo Geo CD
3DO
Whatever board Battletoads ran on
Sega System 32 for Spider-Man
ZN1 Sony Board
ZN2 Sony Board
Hyper Neo Geo 64

Longshot since Im not sure Mister can handle it but Atomiswave, Dreamcast, and Naomi.

[lroby74]

Laserdisc systems
Outrun arcade
R-type arcade
Snow Bros arcade
3DO console
Apple IIGS computer
Amstrad GX4000 console
Radofin console

[deltax0]

hope they can put CAVE CV1000B or d
FBA just got it.

[Reed_Solomon]

Coleco Mini Arcade Tabletops core would be cool. Not sure how different it is to some other similar cores like game and watch.

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Casio Loopy would be interesting, perhaps stickers could be output to PDF for printing elsewhere.

[H6rdc0re]

With PSX and the upcoming Saturn core both having multiple output resolution modes. How about per console per resolution settings? Something similar to the PS1 Digital or Mega SG. We can already do individual NTSC and PAL settings. So why not individual resolution settings?

[8bitAndy]

The Xerox Alto (1973) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
This was a revolutionary machine with a bitmap display, a mouse, and a windowed user interface. It is said to have inspired Steve Jobs when he developed the Lisa/Macintosh.

[Shogun]

The Xerox Alto (1973) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
This was a revolutionary machine with a bitmap display, a mouse, and a windowed user interface. It is said to have inspired Steve Jobs when he developed the Lisa/Macintosh.

I'd love to see this one as well. I was blown away when I saw videos of it in action. It was so ahead of its time it was nuts. I've been meaning to look into emulation but I'm not sure what all is out there or what you could even do on it.

[phillai]

Can anyone let me know if anyone is working on a MULTI COLORLASER-6000 core?
There were 4 games available - BMX Flyer was my favourite retro handheld toy (with such iconic music!) back in the 80s as seen here...

https://youtu.be/hPXtMNzdJ9U?t=31

https://wikitia.com/wiki/BMX_Flyer