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Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 9:35 pm
by sardine
got it working.....
re-named sram.dat to sram.ram and copy x68000.rom to boot.rom
loaded sram
save config
reloaded the core and I get the screen with text
load a hdf image or a d88 file , reset core and game boots... yey!!
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun May 09, 2021 9:36 pm
by sardine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZP0IawW4wU
this chap explains an out of date older version ( why i had trouble )
but he has links in his description that might help you
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 8:03 pm
by jca
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 8:39 pm
by Beeble
Can you please share the new reworked version with us ?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 8:43 pm
by jca
I don't have it, I just saw the video.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 2:40 am
by atrac17
It will come to mister-devel thanks to Rysha soon.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 11:57 am
by pbsk8
will mt32pi be necessary for this core?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 1:26 pm
by zoopster
pbsk8 wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 11:57 am
will mt32pi be necessary for this core?
No - the core uses a Yamaha sound chip which is already supported by Jotego. Midi is optional in some games similar to PC / Amiga.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 11:46 am
by jca
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:59 pm
by bazza_12
hmm.. is it me.. or when there is an SDcard in the secondary SDcard slot (on the i/o board) the mt32pi doesn't work?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 4:56 am
by aeyjpn
Sorry for my stupid previous questions.
It seems to be working now.
I can save the game normally on floppy disk image.
Thank you.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:32 am
by ANARCHY_MIKE
Is there a way to convert 2HD to any of the supported formats? I'd love to play Cho Ren Sha on this, but I can only find it in 2HD. Or better yet, is 2HD support coming for this?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:03 pm
by softtest9
While I can't address your exact question, there are other dumps available. You can check out the TOSEC romset or one of the MAME romsets (chorensa.zip). Those dumps are in .dim format.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:21 am
by retro
ANARCHY_MIKE wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:32 am
Is there a way to convert 2HD to any of the supported formats? I'd love to play Cho Ren Sha on this, but I can only find it in 2HD. Or better yet, is 2HD support coming for this?
My MiSTer hasn't arrived, so I cannot check on it, but i have Cho Ren Sha in HDF format. Would this be useful to you?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 1:07 pm
by zakk4223
You should also be aware that in the current state of this core, Cho Ren Sha doesn't run at the proper framerate
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:51 am
by puu
Sorry, My product use only D88 format for FDD images. (not only X68k but also PC-88,PC-98,TOWNS...)
To convert another format to D88 use vfic is useful.
https://www.vector.co.jp/soft/win95/util/se151106.html
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:10 pm
by _javi_
akeley wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 4:17 pm
zoopster wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 3:17 pm
15khz support
Yes, please.
+1 to the 15 khz support request
I only get a garbled screen on my CRT TV
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:33 am
by syltefar
Hey! I've been thinking about trying out the X68000 core, but I need some help:
1. Is this a good time to try this out if you don't know much about the X68000, or should I wait for an updated core?
2. Where do I get the newest/best core? Is there one that's better than the official distribution?
3. How do I run a game on it? Is there a good guide for how to run games? Should we make one?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 8:15 am
by suverman
syltefar wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:33 am
Hey! I've been thinking about trying out the X68000 core, but I need some help:
1. Is this a good time to try this out if you don't know much about the X68000, or should I wait for an updated core?
2. Where do I get the newest/best core? Is there one that's better than the official distribution?
3. How do I run a game on it? Is there a good guide for how to run games? Should we make one?
1. Yes since 80% of games run and they all run better than any software emu.
2.
http://fpga8801.seesaa.net/ is the official webpage. All functional changes like game compatibility updates will come from there. The "official" core is just the base core with scaler attached to it at the moment - which is handy but yeah no additional improvements.
3. Source d88 floppy disc images or convert HDF to d88.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 6:30 am
by hipsofjw
Anyone manage to get the
English fan translation of Star Cruiser working on this? Tempted to install the core and get everything set up, but this is the only game I'm interested in playing right now.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:23 pm
by syltefar
I managed to get started. Since it could be useful for other newcomers, I'll post how I got a few games to run:
- I used the 2020-09-13 version of the core (linked from this forum thread):
x68000_20200913.rar
- I installed the RBF in /media/fat/_Computer, and moved x68000.rom to /media/fat/games/X68000/boot.rom
- I put a disk image 'Tonton *.hdf' in the HDF and reset the X68000. I could now load a bunch of games from a menu.
- I tested 16 games, 12 of them worked great, two of them didn't boot, and two of them had graphical glitches.
The display wasn't scaled to fullscreen like most other cores, but I managed to zoom my TV to compensate.
I will post a recording
in this forum thread after I have tested some more games.
Please let me know if I'm doing something stupid.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:50 pm
by Chris23235
syltefar wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:23 pm
I managed to get started. Since it could be useful for other newcomers, I'll post how I got a few games to run:
- I used the 2020-09-13 version of the core (linked from this forum thread):
x68000_20200913.rar
- I installed the RBF in /media/fat/_Computer, and moved x68000.rom to /media/fat/games/X68000/boot.rom
- I put a disk image 'Tonton *.hdf' in the HDF and reset the X68000. I could now load a bunch of games from a menu.
- I tested 16 games, 12 of them worked great, two of them didn't boot, and two of them had graphical glitches.
The display wasn't scaled to fullscreen like most other cores, but I managed to zoom my TV to compensate.
I will post a recording
in this forum thread after I have tested some more games.
Please let me know if I'm doing something stupid.
I think the core from this post is more recent:
viewtopic.php?p=20090#p20090
Can you point me in a direction how you found the tonton hdf files?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:26 am
by syltefar
I tried the MIDI core, but music didn't seem to work out of the box, so I switched to the other one. Maybe I just need to configure it correctly, but it's a bit confusing for someone new to the X68000.
I'm sorry, I downloaded those HDFs a while ago, and can't remember where I got them. Maybe here?
https://archive.org/details/SharpX68000 ... yGhostware
I found another HDF set, don't know if it's better or worse:
https://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5323.0
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:08 am
by Chris23235
This one unfortunately is an HDS image and so far SCSI is not supported by the core.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:36 am
by Chris23235
syltefar wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:26 am
I tried the MIDI core, but music didn't seem to work out of the box, so I switched to the other one. Maybe I just need to configure it correctly, but it's a bit confusing for someone new to the X68000.
I only tried MIDI with an USB adapter and a Roland Sound Canvas, here you have to set MIDI to USB in the core. The remaining sound worked for me. There is also a version of the core with Jotegos sound chip simulations, it sounds quite different:
viewtopic.php?t=165&start=150#top
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:55 pm
by _javi_
syltefar wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:23 pm
I managed to get started. Since it could be useful for other newcomers, I'll post how I got a few games to run:
- I used the 2020-09-13 version of the core (linked from this forum thread):
x68000_20200913.rar
- I installed the RBF in /media/fat/_Computer, and moved x68000.rom to /media/fat/games/X68000/boot.rom
- I put a disk image 'Tonton *.hdf' in the HDF and reset the X68000. I could now load a bunch of games from a menu.
- I tested 16 games, 12 of them worked great, two of them didn't boot, and two of them had graphical glitches.
The display wasn't scaled to fullscreen like most other cores, but I managed to zoom my TV to compensate.
I will post a recording
in this forum thread after I have tested some more games.
Please let me know if I'm doing something stupid.
Would you please share the ini file to use this core on TV (crt 15khz, i guess) ?
Is there any source to those tonton hdf files?
Many thanks in advance!
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:44 am
by puu
Unfortunately, this core cannot be switched to screen modes other than SVGA 800x600. It will be enlarged and displayed in this screen mode.
That's because the original of this core was developed for the DE0-CV and the Analog VGA connector is for standard display devices.
Since most VGA displays cannot display at 15kHz, they are enlarged and displayed in SVGA.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:07 pm
by FatSlob71
When is the new update for this core released?
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:24 pm
by puu
There are no plans for the time being. Because I am currently prioritizing the development of FM-TOWNS core.
Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:15 pm
by syltefar
puu wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:24 pm
There are no plans for the time being. Because I am currently prioritizing the development of FM-TOWNS core.
Which is very exciting! Keep up the good work.