MiSTer FPGA Forum

It's quite simple. The answer is 42.

Sorry, but this was the first thought that came to my mind when I read the question: "Flash cartridges with original hardware are basically FPGA already?"

sp-s2.sp1 (MVS) and neo-epo.sp1 (AES) are the original bios versions for MVS/AES.

uni-bios.rom is they “Universe“ bios including AES/MVS and Europe/Japan/US.

So you don’t necessarily need all three. These are more alternatives.

I'm on day 1 Python scripting right now, that feels like day 2 ;-). That seems a good idea though, but issue would be what to check against and there are different versions of various BIOS to be used - unless I am missing something. Am I right in thinking there is no way to run a python script from within the MiSter its self? Only bash scripts? Ye...

This script would be even more useful if it would do a checksum check on the bios files. So you would be sure you have the right bios file...

SEGA (sort of) announces Astro City Mini Arcade, with 36 games.

http://segabits.com/blog/2020/07/07/seg ... -classics/

Would be a cool "enclosure" for a MiSTer.

Select F12 to select game and load an overlay file. Hope we can somehow "connect" the rom and the overlay at a later time. Maybe with an additional config file or a simple naming convention? If you leave it as is then there is more choice to try other overlays. Yes sure, but you can have both: Make a naming convention so the overlay can ...

Just found this collection of Vectrex overlays: https://github.com/raphkoster/vectrex-overlays

Unfortunately all are in png format. I hope someone can convert them...

Select F12 to select game and load an overlay file. Okay, thanks didn't see that there was an option to load the overlay... Hope we can somehow "connect" the rom and the overlay at a later time. Maybe with an additional config file or a simple naming convention? So far it looks very nice and very promising. Didn't have a single problem s...

alanswx wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:17 am Anyone want to try this test build? I made the color a little more white when the vector is brighter.

Thanks a lot!

Just wanted to give it a short try because I have to go to work, but couldn't figure out in which folder the overlays have to go to...

alanswx wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:21 pm Interesting. I wonder what the best way to handle it is. I would think it depended on lighting, etc.

I assume the Vectrex has variable brightness setting. So the brighter it is, the more white the vectors would look.

alanswx wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 4:04 pm Maybe this is better with brighter vectors.

Looks really great. Love the different colors of the „vectors“. I never had a Vectrex myself, only played at a friend. Can’t really remember the colors, but it seems the vectors where more white than yellow:

https://youtu.be/Ked5BXNFNqc
https://youtu.be/D--SVZ6pWWg

With the Vectrex the overlays are an important part of a game. I own one and the overlays make a big difference. You are not going to simulate this with physical overlays, so software versions would be a great solution. Totally agree. At the moment playing Vectrex games on mame feels much more accurate as on MiSTer. Don't know if there are any gam...

I don’t think you’ll see this for FPGA because the FPGA goal is to keep the lag down and to be true to the original hardware. Having bezels likely would be counter to both of these goals. That being said...who knows? From a technical stand point why would a bezel add any lag? Would love to see bezels and overlays for games that originally had them...

Hello kathleen,

thanks a lot for the information.

Would have been so much fun playing it on the MiSTer. Maybe I'll try DosBox...

Wow, almost 10 years ago we had a first SEGA Genesis on a Terasic DE1 board:

https://hackaday.com/2010/07/16/sega-ge ... h-an-fpga/

and even a little old https://hackaday.com/2009/10/17/nes-pro ... on-a-fpga/

It's quite funny to read the comments on the use fullness of such a project... times have changed.

It's the FPGAARCADE replay board it's not a "MiSTer" (or better D10-nano) clone: https://www.fpgaarcade.com/ You can read more about the D10-nano support here: https://www.fpgaarcade.com/replay2-and-de10-nano-support/ Maybe Mike can shed some light on it but as far as I understand it they will not support MiSTer but the D10-nano. Their go...

Okay agreed, but in what way does your answer has something to do with the original question? Take for example this here: https://github.com/sajattack/Hack_MiSTer This is an fpga implementation of the "Nand to Tetris" computer, which is a new computer. https://www.nand2tetris.org/ And the question was what kind of new systems a DE10-Nano ...

It's this game here: https://www.vblank.com/RetroCityRampage/

And it was ported to MSDOS:

https://www.pcgamer.com/retro-city-ramp ... 1-is-next/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il65FIKWgEk

I hope this is not to much off topic...

Did anyone try to play Retro City Rampage on the ao486 core. I'm very much interested to know if this game is playable.

Sorry to disagree, but FPGA's main area of application is prototyping and highly flexible "circuits". So new "systems" is the main purpose and not preservation of old systems.

It's a nice core, but including it into Main somehow contradicts the whole Nand2Teris project.

The whole purpose of the project is to build a "computer" in software (emulation) or in fpga yourself. It's not about running software on that "computer" but to understand the principles of a modern computer.

I would donate to get that up and running. Xbox 360 has a Minter VLM as well with 4 gamepad control. Nuon too I think. There was a prototype VLM 0 that was not made widely available. The Atari Jaguar had VLM 1. The Nuon players featured version VLM 2. VLM V3 was used in the video game Unity, and was the base for Xbox 360 and Minter's Space Giraffe...

As far as I know NFS is not terribly secure, and CIFS isn't terribly efficient by comparison. But as we don't have big files I don't think NFS would have a big advantage.

I'll give it a try myself, but how is the experience with loading/navigation times versus a local SD card? With navigation I would say it makes absolute no difference. Most of the roms are also quite small so no big difference there too. I haven’t compared virtual hard drives, but for me this setups works very well. I have the complete games folde...

Sure, you can simply use a cifs share. Take a look at the cifs_mount.sh in your Scripts folder. The remarks in there are pretty self explanatory.

With the LOCAL_DIR option you can mount single directories or the whole share and with BASE_PATH you can e.g. mount to /media/fat/games

ron wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:03 pm OK, this seems to work fine. Was a nightmare.

Any chance you can somehow share this rom?

Small update on the Sega System 16 core:

https://twitter.com/MrX_8B/status/1277811720187076608

Looks quite nice:

https://www.facebook.com/THEC64computer ... 5836060644
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hXW3BAaiU

Seems to be very similar to the TheC64:

https://retrogames.biz/thec64

Is this some sort of stand alone device or is it part of an arcade cabinet? How big is it?

BTW: I thing this would fit more into the Input Devices section...

Don't know what you did wrong, but I just downloaded the release_20200618.rar and unpacked it with 7zip on Windows 10 without any problem.

Have you tried re-downloading the file?

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/SD-Inst ... 200618.rar