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by Kitrinx
Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: VTech CreatiVision
Replies: 10
Views: 2695

Re: VTech CreatiVision

I think what you meant to call it was "Dick Smith Wizzard". It's a quirky little platform that is mostly off the shelf parts, but it had a library and basic interpreter and a really unusual keyboard/controller setup. I'm glad you're enjoying it :) I really am - do you have a Pateron or Buy Me A Coffee link pls ? I don't take any money fo...
by Kitrinx
Tue Dec 12, 2023 6:17 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: VTech CreatiVision
Replies: 10
Views: 2695

Re: VTech CreatiVision

I think what you meant to call it was "Dick Smith Wizzard".

It's a quirky little platform that is mostly off the shelf parts, but it had a library and basic interpreter and a really unusual keyboard/controller setup. I'm glad you're enjoying it :)

by Kitrinx
Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:15 pm
Forum: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: NES Grey or Black Screen
Replies: 4
Views: 3439

Re: NES Grey or Black Screen

Sounds like either you don't have sdram, or you didn't load a game.

by Kitrinx
Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:14 pm
Forum: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: SNES Controller Option?
Replies: 6
Views: 3769

Re: SNES Controller Option?

I don't think this is really an appropriate addition. None of the major emulators have this feature, the real hardware obviously doesn't natively have ports that fit snes controllers, and I think it introduces a slippery slope for peripherals, as technically you can read from 4016 forever if you want and use anything with any early-nintendo compati...
by Kitrinx
Mon Jan 23, 2023 7:23 pm
Forum: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: Possible Sound Quality Improvement?
Replies: 6
Views: 3858

Re: Possible Sound Quality Improvement?

This isn't realistic to the hardware design or timing of the system, and it would just sound like a poorly made clone or emulator of the system, as the many eccentricities of the sound chip were used heavily by developers of the era both in the music and in creating the many sound effects of games. It's actually pretty remiss for the person who mad...
by Kitrinx
Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

Woo hoo, this is great!!! This is the first time I have successfully played an Atari 2600 game on MiSTer with paddles (via D9)! The action is a bit jittery but my paddles are 40 years old so the potentiometers need some TLC, or replacement. Big thanks to kitrinx for the code upgrade, mister240p for the paddle mappings, and thorr for the config ins...
by Kitrinx
Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

Wait, what? The (real) driving controller (on a D9) works too? Although the paddle controllers work great through a d9, the driving controller did not. Setting the Peripheral to Driving in Indy 500 did not change anything. Anyone had success? I wish I could find a good spinner for not only Indy 500 but the other spinner games. Actually this was im...
by Kitrinx
Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:25 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

From the Readme: Over the years several Atari joystick to USB adapters have been created for 2600 and 7800 peripherals. Some of these do not split paddle operations into two distinct devices. For this scenario, a special option has been added in the periphal configuration section of the menu that allows multiple paddles to be on the same controlle...
by Kitrinx
Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:24 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

Thank you for the core update! I am looking forward to trying it out. I was planning to make a new paddles adapter, but hopefully this is no longer necessary and will work with the d9 adapter. FYI - the Readme does not mention the keys for the keypad adapter in case you wanted to add those. There's actually three sets for the keypad controller iir...
by Kitrinx
Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:37 pm
Forum: MiSTer Updates & Changelog
Topic: MiSTer updates and changelog
Replies: 771
Views: 3442247

Re: MiSTer updates and changelog

Atari 2600/7800: Fix mouse sensitivity when used as a paddle Fix virtual lightgun not working when "crop overscan" is enabled Improve virtual lightgun accuracy and add horizontal tuning option Add option to allow some quirky usb to paddle adapters to have both paddles on the same controller (READ THE README) Add support for new 7800 "...
by Kitrinx
Mon Nov 14, 2022 1:59 pm
Forum: Arcade Cores
Topic: Congo Bongo Released
Replies: 32
Views: 4314

Re: Congo Bongo Released

darfpga wrote: Sun Nov 13, 2022 10:43 pm Arcade Congo Bongo for DE10_lite and MiSTer available on my GitHub depot (github/darfpga). Feel free to add to MiSTer-devel.

Dar.
You have access to create or fork repos in mister-devel if you'd like to put it there. It's better if you do it so you can manage changes to it.
by Kitrinx
Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:51 pm
Forum: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: TAS NES core return?
Replies: 2
Views: 3400

Re: TAS NES core return?

I'd like to make a generic TAS module that can slot into any core at some point as a better alternative
by Kitrinx
Thu Oct 06, 2022 2:33 pm
Forum: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: Super Mario Bros 256 Level Glitch
Replies: 8
Views: 8169

Re: Super Mario Bros 256 Level Glitch

Besides being extremely inadvisable to hot swap carts, this is just an amateurish way of corrupting work ram. Just figure out what changes "tennis" is making to ram and where it's leaving the cpu state and you can create some patch to do the same thing much more elegantly.
by Kitrinx
Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:35 pm
Forum: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: Elite on NES
Replies: 12
Views: 3220

Re: Elite on NES

Good afternoon, I have had my D10 for a little while, and the one game I would love to get working is Elite. It was available on many platforms but I cannot get any to work. The closest I can get it the NES - where I see it load and then a grey screen. Now I think I know this is down to headers, and I was told to download python 3 and sunshine scr...
by Kitrinx
Mon Aug 22, 2022 12:45 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Vtech Creativision / Dick Smith Wizzard
Replies: 15
Views: 4015

Re: Vtech Creativision / Dick Smith Wizzard

Loving the appearance of old "computers". Thank you for core @Kitrinx I have found, though, that when using the Laser 2001 or Saloram bios there is interference noise through the speakers. It disappears when a cartridge is loaded but is evident/annoying while exploring basic Yes, I noticed that. The BIOS writes to the PIA chip to enable ...
by Kitrinx
Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:59 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Vtech Creativision / Dick Smith Wizzard
Replies: 15
Views: 4015

Re: Vtech Creativision / Dick Smith Wizzard

Sorry for the late reply, but yes, it won't generate any syncs or blanks for an analog display until it loads a game. You can either use the laser 2001 bios which starts up basic by default, or use boot1.rom as some game so that loads by default. Either one will address the issue of no video signals present without a game loaded.
by Kitrinx
Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:55 pm
Forum: SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: Getting a near perfect aspect ration without shimmering (SNES and NES cores)
Replies: 4
Views: 4133

Re: Getting a near perfect aspect ration without shimmering (SNES and NES cores)

If you use the correct aspect ratio you will always get shimmering, even at 4k, though it'll be less pronounced the higher the resolution is. You have to use some amount of interpolation to get rid of shimmering, and it doesn't have to be a ton. The higher the resolution, the less interpolation you will have to use. You can use horizontal and verti...
by Kitrinx
Mon Aug 15, 2022 5:31 am
Forum: MiSTer Updates & Changelog
Topic: MiSTer updates and changelog
Replies: 771
Views: 3442247

Re: MiSTer updates and changelog

New Core: CreatiVision (aka Dick Smith Wizzard)
-Also supports Laser 2001 computer
-Full cart library works
-This core requires a bios, read the readme for more information
-Cassette loading will be fancier in the future but for now there is a basic writer to enter in .bas files
by Kitrinx
Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:23 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

supercharger draws at 30fps while it loads. I'm not sure what this was supposed to do with original tv's but that seems to be correct behavior for it.
by Kitrinx
Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:04 pm
Forum: Sega Master System / Game Gear
Topic: Split core into separete cores for SMS and GG
Replies: 31
Views: 29720

Re: Split core into separete cores for SMS and GG

This now seems to be pretty easily possible with the setname feature of .mgl files. I made a file called GameGear.mgl in my _console directory with the following contents: <mistergamedescription> <rbf>_console/sms</rbf> <setname>GameGear</setname> </mistergamedescription> And now I have GameGear as a seperate option in my console list and the abil...
by Kitrinx
Thu Jul 21, 2022 2:01 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Official MiSTer FPGA Discord
Replies: 36
Views: 12870

Re: Official MiSTer FPGA Discord

Similarly to discord you can here quote people to, try to, get thire attention. I think I've proven here, on this forum, that I'm undeserving of a ban. As far as I remember you were banned for being abusive to the MT32 PI developer That's subjective. I made the unfortunate mistake of asking questions from a developer that has small amount of toler...
by Kitrinx
Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:42 pm
Forum: NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Topic: Proper handling of Left+Right/Up+Down?
Replies: 6
Views: 1807

Re: Proper handling of Left+Right/Up+Down?

The core doesn't block any combination of buttons. It takes what the framework gives it and dutifully encodes it just like the real hardware.
by Kitrinx
Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:56 pm
Forum: X68000, PC88, PC98
Topic: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases
Replies: 520
Views: 311765

Re: X68000 Beta - Updates and Releases

@puu Thank you for some updated code. I will at some point attempt to add clock enables to it like the rest of the code from the mister project, so that it can be merged upstream. Is there any chance you could use some kind of version control system like github to make tracking code changes easier? We use the more accurate fx68k CPU for this, which...
by Kitrinx
Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:20 am
Forum: MiSTer Community Game Club
Topic: "MiSTer Community Plays" Events
Replies: 60
Views: 16586

Re: "MiSTer Community Plays" Events

I think it would be kind of confusing to have two different games of the month, one existing on twitter, discord, and the world at large and the other here. Maybe we can just post what was voted upon on twitter, and there can be some crosstalk here. I know you don't like twitter, I don't like it either, but it's very hard to communicate if you won'...
by Kitrinx
Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:13 am
Forum: Development for MiSTer
Topic: MiSTerNet
Replies: 15
Views: 13005

Re: MiSTerNet

A realistic approach would be to have an encoder, or offload to an encoder, and handle this video streaming style. The second player would be at a disadvantage of course, but it would enable some kind of netplay that way. Just feed back some virtual controllers. The de10 doesn't really have the resources needed to access and encode the framebuffer ...
by Kitrinx
Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:25 pm
Forum: Development for MiSTer
Topic: MiSTerNet
Replies: 15
Views: 13005

Re: MiSTerNet

The thing to reconcile is how you synchronize two cores that have multiple milliseconds of lag with each other, when the two cores are operating in real-time (unlike a software emu). eg, how do you keep the analog video signal from being disrupted? how do you write the the ram fast enough to prevent the game from stuttering terribly?
by Kitrinx
Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:22 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

Regarding the Driving Controller, I tried Indy 500 again. With my Driving Controller, no matter what I do, it won't use it. With my spinner that I made, using "Trackball" I can press the button and it moves forward, but it won't spin. Also on "Trackball" if I move the mouse it will sort of uncontrollably turn. If I put it on &q...
by Kitrinx
Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:05 pm
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

with the ADC paddles the problem you will run into is that the ADC bus can't be driven by two separate modules which is what is required. After that you can simply rescale the range to be 0-255 since the only two things using those analog lines are the 7800 controllers and the paddles, it's safe to this, and the 7800 buttons are boolean in nature. ...
by Kitrinx
Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:19 am
Forum: Other Console Cores
Topic: Atari 7800 / 2600
Replies: 506
Views: 386950

Re: Atari 7800 / 2600

Paddles are complicated. Two paddles being one controller simply doesn't work. I know this is how the original console did it, but it really doesn't matter. It doesn't make sense in the context of the mister framework. There are many different devices that can be mixed together as paddles on mister, and not all of them are even associated with a jo...
by Kitrinx
Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:10 pm
Forum: Commodore 16, 64, 128, VIC-20, PET
Topic: Porting Mega65 to MiSTer?
Replies: 31
Views: 22440

Re: Porting Mega65 to MiSTer?

I made no such claim. The only thing I’m saying is that the information you’re going off is 5 years out of date, and sorg never said it couldn’t be done, just that it couldn’t be done at the time. As has happened time and time again, almost everything claimed to be “impossible” for MiSTer has appeared after some amount of time. I just find the con...