MiSTer FPGA Forum

You should be more precise: which are the directories on your SD card, which ones on the USB drive? Are you still "Switched to USB" or did you use "Switch to SD Card"? You said "I didn't even know this option existed ": which option? I was also using "Switch to USB", now I am "running from the SD card&q...

I've been using the now redundant "switch to usb" option since I've had my MiSTer. Yesterday I moved everything, RBFs, MRAs, config files etc over to the SD and kept just the games, disc and HDD images on my USB SSD... I didn't even know this option existed and I was planning either to use 'symlinks or mount --bind' to make everything sho...

I just wonder how low-spec of a GPU you could get away with if it were purely dedicated to shader math? Not something that is very easy to test of course but I know that a launch Nintendo Switch running various 16bit emulators in RetroArch does a pretty good job with the ‘CRT-Royale’ shader in handheld mode which GPU wise is roughly the same power...

My mistake was putting mine in a metal pc case with no grounding and metal external buttons and having a chair that builds static charge like crazy. Shorted one of the gates used for the LEDs permanently beware the dreaded static folks.

Same as you really in 'switch to USB' I couldn't remember what it was called so that's why I wrote it like that 😂, the SD card just has all the stuff required to boot and all the games and 'emulator' binaries live on the USB drive. I did think of using Symlinks to keep the Neogeo games on the SD card but it seemed a little crazy for the one game th...

On my MiSTer I use a USB SSD to store everything and the system switches to it at boot time. I found trying to load Puzzle Bobble (pbobblen) that it will hang during initial loading and will hang the MiSTer requiring a full reset, it will work perfectly fine if I load it from the SD card. Puzzle bobble 2 and a handful of other games I tested work f...

I think if we start to see OLED monitors with extremely fast response times and a future iteration of MiSTer with a larger FPGA or ARM side with a GPU we could make it pretty close to indistinguishable from a CRT using good shaders and fake scan lines. Will never happen. Fake scanlines are utter shite, excuse the language, but I really hate puttin...

I'm the same I have CRT however, spend most of the time using a modern hdmi monitor. Yea, especially when so many of the computer cores don't play nicely with consumer TVs so you either need a BVM or a VGA monitor which adds to the expense. So if it's a console game that I really enjoy I'll turn on the TV but for everything else I just use a monit...

The day I can play Duck Hunt natively without any tricks on a flat panel along with native resolutions and refresh rates is the day I will consider dumping my CRT's. Until then, long live CRT's! Well said. I would never swap any of my 14 CRTs with any of my LCD/PC Monitors. And, I have yet to see a shader, anywhere on planet earth, that can simula...

Definitely unsurprised by the age results, it's the group that grew up in the 8,16 & 32 bit era and most likely have some disposable income to put into the hobby, sadly we are probably the ones with least amount of time to indulge

I've received the new de10 nano and everything is working fine with it, the already prepared 200go card is booting, no issues when saving any kind of parameters... I mount every extension and still no issues... So yes, the first one I received has a problem with its SD card slot! Once again thanks to all, but what you're saying Blitzwing scares me...

bazza_12 wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 9:40 am i plug and unplug my sdcard all the time, never had any issues..

Neither have I but I have read in a few places now about the slot being a little on the fragile side, what truth there is to it I don't know but best to be safe.

I've tried to clean this SD card reader on the nano board with a tiny brush and... The SD card booted, so then I unplug and plugin just to see, without touching anything else than the plug... And then it didn't boot again and never since. Still no response from ultimate mister, but I found a de10 nano at an acceptable price to I bough it and we wi...

caffeinekid wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 11:43 pm I wonder if any MiSTer owner has a cat they have called Sorg.

If I had one I would just for the fun of it, however unlike dogs I know cats only marginally tolerate our existence as some sort of moderately useful tool so I won't get one.

Cat owners vs dog owners fight please

Working now. Made a new drive and it all seems good. Not sure what changed. That's great glad you got it working, never found a moment to sit in front of the MiSTer to get it done until now. Not that it matters now but I couldn't replicate the issue you were having, I guess just like all electronics/software things can just go awry sometimes. :roll:

same ^ and tbh, laxer is leaving a lot of money on the table. his generosity with handing over his work like that is equally commendable, and the next team to finish this up will have a great head start ! Unless I'm mistaken it was always going to be handed over to the community as it was eventually going opensource at some point or another. The w...

Looking good, did "um and ah" about getting a checkmate case as I wanted to have something to sit my old CRT TV on but I just couldn't do it as it is quite expensive, ended up going with a Node 202 instead and just doing a custom mount, now I'm wishing I'd gone with the Checkmate lol.

Nice

83% utilisation, that's definitely going to be one full puppy if/when it's finished.

fingers crossed this core gets a beta release in the next couple years. ultra's last comment there, about the core being ported from xilinx to MiSTer and if "it fits" is something the next team will have to figure out. id imagine jotego's new DDR controller could be used, as it addresses bandwidth and latency (altho i have no idea how mu...

hiddenbyleaves wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 2:40 pm Meanwhile, there has been new progress in the Saturn core today

Maybe everyone who supported the PSX core development on Patreon should move over and support Sergey.

Didn't know there was one at all. If I thought the PS1 might be difficult a Saturn core is even more crazy.

Sad to see it go this way. Would appear from the outside to be an issue about % ownership of the project/proceeds which might explain the "friction". Disappointed about the news, but Laxer has been very open and forthcoming with all information up to this point and at least all the work Patreons have supported has been put up on GitHub. ...

So I can use any fuse? Sorry you lost me at the breaker board bit lol. I don't know why I've never bothered understanding all this stuff over the years. I guess I've just been lazy and always used the plug that came with every device in my house. I did once blow up my boiler when I was renting many moons ago when I changed the fuse in the plug and...

Maybe you have heard of this already but you could try google "ground loop" and try out the known steps for addressing this issue. A friend of mine is a sound engineer and it seemed to me that alot of time was spent hunting the dreaded buzz known as the "ground loop". I followed the advice of others in these forums and got a mi...

:o Well that sucks... I hope it's nothing too serious on a personal level. However he never made the code available on github though right? I hope he does, so other devs can take a crack at it without restarting from scratch. This is pretty sad seriously. He could have made the message available for everyone to see. Ultra embedded didn't put anyth...

https://www.patreon.com/laxer3a well, that sucks :( im guessing someone will jump in and help with this project at some point, but id imagine this core development may be put a (long) hiatus Yea saw it on the Patreon, these things happen. All the best to laxer though, great work by everybody involved to get it as far as it is right now. Physical a...

Interesting, I suppose it probably doesn't crop up to much if it is a bug, as I doubt many people are using applications designed to show a mouse pointer in DOS. I know from my own experience though I've never had it in Warcraft 1 and theme hospital.

I can try to find a copy of Acrobat reader just to attempt to rule out something on your end.

Thanks for everyone's input. Regarding the low latency of the Mister that everyone mentions - does this also apply if using a LCD TV via HDMI or is it really to do with viewing on a CRT? I would be using a LCD so I wonder if then the Mister would suffer just the same as a Pi would. I wouldn't be buying the analog IO. If I go for either it would be...

I thought I was just getting a bit rusty with playing old games, until I connected my MiSTer to a CRT. All of a sudden games that require fast reaction were so much easier (I first noticed that playing Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga core). My first one I started was Mega Turrican on the megadrive and it just felt so good to play... For those of ...

With the MiSTer, I'm very impressed with the low latency ("lag") and the fact that the screen refresh rate matches that of the system being emulated, e.g. 50 Hz for the Spectrum core (one of my favourites). This eliminates tearing and stuttering. I'm not so impressed about accuracy in general, though. It depends on the core, but in many ...

foft wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:34 am So, it works... Now need a 68K emulator to plug in and also to plumb interrupts. I could add another avalon slave for polling interrupts thought it'd be better with real interrupts. I'll try the slave method for now then improve after.

Doing some timing and seem to get ~2MB/s. So better fix that!

Congrats, great to see something come to life.