MiSTer FPGA Forum

akeley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 2:43 pm This "manual" is not 100% complete, but it's still a good first-stop source for questions like the OP's: https://github.com/adreeve/MiSTerManual ... Manual.pdf

That looks darn useful. Thank you!

Not sure if you found the answer, but I'm fairly sure Escape maps to Break, and Home maps to Clear.

Keep in mind the bulk of my shell-scripting knowledge was gained yesterday

Edit: Ah, I see what you mean about the Arcade cores. I guess they must get launched in a slightly different way. Would be interesting to know how, as there might be a way to accommodate them.

It remains to be seen if it survives an update, but it's a fun little script to tinker with (providing you have a backup!) The update scripts won't delete your "_ Favourites" folder but what may happen is when one of your favorite cores is updated, the filename will change and render the link created invalid (i.e. file not found) so you ...

guyute74 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:44 pm Well done.
One of my favorite things about projects like the Mister is to tinker and learn new things from helpful members.

-in baltimore

It remains to be seen if it survives an update, but it's a fun little script to tinker with (providing you have a backup!)

Akuma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:28 pm Unfortunately ExFat does not support soft-links, so what you want to do is not possible.

Except it seems to be working?

Much safer that way. While the mkdir command won't harm anything if the folder exists, it will spew an error but still go on with script, so best to check if the folder doesn't exist first as such: if [ ! -d "/media/fat/_ Favourites" ]; then mkdir -p "/media/fat/_ Favourites"; fi The '-p' is supposed to only create if it doesn'...

I'm not in the least surprised to find there's horrible, horrible implications in the script - like I say, kind of a proof of concept from someone who knows just enough to be dangerous :) Would a better way be to just iterate through the files in that folder and delete them individually? And have the script check to see if the folder exists to begi...

Purely for gits and shiggles I thought I'd have a go at writing a 'Favourites' menu that would appear at the top and contain a subset of cores I prefer to use. I'm using a directory called '/media/fat/_ Favourites' (note the space after the underscore) and it gets populated by this script: #!/bin/bash input="/media/fat/favs.list" rm -rf &...

akeley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:33 pm I've tried it and also can't see that line. I'm on a CRT TV and have shifted the image to the left as much as possible using RGB centring.

Mode 7 seems to push things too high up (causes half of the top text line to disappear).

Thanks for that. I don't think I'm personally seeing the MODE 7 issue, but I'm on an LCD over HDMI, not a CRT.

lamarax wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:23 pm Yeah, I wouldn't try to run proper BASIC commands on it Make sure you boot the core in mode 7 though (OSD setting)

I have it booting into Mode 7 (more authentic ), then I change MODE to run the commands. It could well be something hinky at my end, which is why I'd like someone else to try it.

Hello fellow Beeb aficionado! :mrgreen: You may want to try this unofficial build, until things get sorted out and it finds its way into the main repository: BBCMicro_20220123.rbf Mind you, this build implements the capability of loading individual disk image files (instead of .MMB), but I'm not sure which DFS standard @alanswx has followed. Many ...

Last night I was playing 'Starship Command' on the BBC Micro core and I noticed something - the rightmost column of pixels wasn't being displayed. Today I quickly tried something in both BeebEm on a Windows box, and the BBC Micro core on MiSTer: MODE 1 MOVE 1279,1023 DRAW 1279,0 Also tried the same with MODE 2 On BeebEm this correctly draws a verti...

I like the look of this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08JQFLRCF/ Looks a bit similar to the Arteck Keyboard/Mouse combo: vAYH38m.jpg I bought three of these for other PCs and I have to say they're very good. The keyboards are light but solid, the range is good, and the charge lasts absolutely ages. The mouse is a little light but perfectly goo...

In case anyone is interested, I just bought a Keychron K2 wireless/wired keyboard: ssTKIBu.png £80 on Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NM8WM53) Nicely clicky without being loud, it can run as either a wired or Bluetooth keyboard (and can be paired with up to three devices), has backlighting that you can configure, and comes with repla...

...aaaaaand once again following up to my own question: just tried with another, smaller (2GB) card that I formated FAT (not FAT32), copied the BEEB.MMB file over and it works.

So I suppose my question would be, is the issue with the FAT32 aspect or the card size aspect? The original card was 16GB.

I'm trying to use the secondary SD card (on the analogue board) for the BBC Micro. It's my understanding that you need to do this if you intend to save data. However, I don't seem to be able to get the core to 'see' the card. The card has been formatted FAT32 and is empty except for the BEEB.MMB file. How do I proceed from here? Currently (having r...

Something else to look at is the contents of your /etc/fstab file. If you have noexec in your options you can kiss running any kind of script from that mount goodbye. I think it's ok: /etc# cat fstab # <file system> <mount pt> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/root / ext4 rw,noauto,noatime,nodiratime 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/...

Ok, replying to myself here - I think I see the issue. If you do something really stupid like renaming the /etc/media/Scripts folder, then /etc/network/if-up.d is unable to run the cifs_mount script, due to it being on the share it's actively trying to mount.

D'oh!

So yes, the Scripts folder should indeed be local to the card.

I've had a rather pleasant afternoon getting MiSTer to run from my NAS using the cifs_mount script. However, one thing puzzles me. I did a completely fresh install of MiSTer Fusion onto the stock 8GB card that comes with the DE10, after I'd copied the /media/fat folder structure and contents to the share I'd created from the previous 65GB card I wa...

Doing so for 2 years now - zero issues here with the SD card. Good to know - thank you. Although I think I'll invest in a switch to avoid the wear-and-tear aspect. Might be overthinking it, but hey. Better use a switchable power supply instead of an inline switch, because some of these cables are known to mess with the voltages: https://www.retror...

Lastly: is there a preferred shutdown procedure? Yanking the power seems...risky. To quote Sorgelig (Project Founder and Lead Developer) It's not like raspberry pi. MiSTer normally loads with system mounted as read-only. Some computer cores open their hard file in read-write - this is the only file opened in write mode. Usually if this computer co...

pac wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:06 am Doing so for 2 years now - zero issues here with the SD card.

Good to know - thank you. Although I think I'll invest in a switch to avoid the wear-and-tear aspect. Might be overthinking it, but hey.

Fallon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:34 am

GreyAreaUK wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:23 am Lastly: is there a preferred shutdown procedure? Yanking the power seems...risky.

I just use a switch on my power socket extension Mister's PSU is plugged into.

I can see how that would help (less wear and tear on the socket) but is yanking the power safe from the perspective of potentially corrupting the SD card?

I've had my DE10 now for almost a week, and I'm absolutely loving it. Managed to muddle through installing the 'update-all' script, got the PSX unstable core running, the Archie core came as a very pleasant surprise. All good. I'm connecting via wireless and my experience is mixed. It mostly works, but copying large files via SMB is almost guarante...

Just an update from another thread: I ended up ordering direct from Terasic on the 12th, and it should be here tomorrow. Total cost here in the UK was: Order Amount: $210 Shipping Cost: $54.73 (roughly £195) + £52 Customs duty for a rough total of £247 How long after your order/shipping notification did you get your customs duty information? It wa...

Just an update from another thread: I ended up ordering direct from Terasic on the 12th, and it should be here tomorrow.

Total cost here in the UK was:

Order Amount: $210
Shipping Cost: $54.73

(roughly £195) + £52 Customs duty

for a rough total of £247

And I just had the text+email (nice touch) from FedEx asking me to pay the duty, which was incredibly simply to do (click-a-link easy). So: total costs are: Order Amount: $210 Shipping Cost: $54.73 (roughly £195) + £52 Customs duty for a rough total of £247 Going to be honest, had I known back in November how much this would ultimately cost me I'm ...

Normally you will receive a bill from FedEx in the post usually a number of days after your delivery, the bill will be in you local currency, so if in the UK it will be in £GBP. The bill will include a processing fee and required duty amount this can then be paid online among other methods. https://www.fedex.com/en-gb/billing/duty-tax.html https:/...

Well, mine should be here on Friday.

One thing I'm still not too clear on - does the FedEx shipping bill of $54 include a UK Customs charge, or is that going to be something else on top that I need to deal with? (Sorry, that's probably a really stupid question but I rarely buy stuff that needs import duties).