MiSTer FPGA Forum

Mellified wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 6:25 pm I've used this one:
https://ultimatemister.com/product/ulti ... lour=white

Expensive to get to the USA but it's lovely.

Oh, that does look lovely. Shame it's out of stock.
What does the Mister see this as ? A controller ? Mouse ?

I don't think you'll find many, if any, VGA monitors that could do 15hz, or even 31hz. Most are probably 50hz minimum. There are some old VGA LCD monitors that were able to do 15hz at their lowest resolution, but they often look terrible compared to a CRT. I think that maybe you are mistaking vertical refresh rate (50Hz in PAL, 60Hz in NYSC, 120Hz...

Actually, everything is squashed into the middle third of the screen, but at least I get a picture now. Progress. Update...oops had it on original aspect. Change to full screen and it's pretty much sorted. Just lose some text off the sides of the menu. Excellent. If you find any better modelines then please post them here. I have tried and tried s...

This works on my Sony CRT

[ao486]
vga_scaler=0
video_mode=640,6,56,66,224,14,8,18,12000

224 vertical res is a bit low, and causes some text in games a little hard to read. But it does work for me.

You are either a troll or you have serious problems with reading comprehension.

You're an idiot.

Taking a 240p image and scaling it to 4k is not a hack. Changing how the graphics chip is emulated internally, so that this upscaling doesn't even need to happen, is a hack. Doesn't matter if it's FPGA or software emulation. Original hardware don't have 4k scalers, if you connect original hardware to a fancy 4k OLED TV then the resolution will be ...

I don't see any "FPGA snobbery" in this thread or forum. I for one use software emulators pretty frequently, even inaccurate ones. Inaccurate emulation is better than none at all, and just about every emulator or FPGA core author has learned from other projects that already existed. It's just that when given a choice, some of us prefer t...

It's weird for them to call it a hack, but I think I know what they mean. Hardware renderers, as far as I know having kept up with this for awhile, can't really be cycle accurately (or at least aren't currently) used for ps2 emulation. In terms of the PS1 emulation at least, the hardware renderer in mednafen is a mess. Look at the water in the ope...

Artificially increasing the rendering resolution is a hack. Hardware renderers are a hack. Changing how the system is emulated on a per-game basis, to get around problems like how the PS2 has a different floating point format, compared to x86 PCs, is a hack. Being able to play the most popular games is not a good measure of accuracy either. I don'...

I would hardly call PCSX2 hacky and glitchy. Ok, some games have been problematic - I remember how long the Jak series had rendering problems when using a hardware renderer, such as Jak's eyes. But the PS2 did things that just wasn't/isn't possible with PC hardware, so some sort of middle-ground had to be made by the devs. I mean, I can fire-up mos...

To be completely honest, I have a Pi 3b+ with a Pi2Scart hat, a full Mister set, both hooked up to the same CRT, and for some systems you wouldn't notice a difference. If anything, the Mister has the edge for a crisper display (VGA to Scart), whereas the Pi I have to use specific scripts and video-modes to get the best from it. For example, on the ...

I wonder why people keep saying that consoles beyond the PS1 are easy to emulate in software, and that FPGAs aren't necessary for this task? PS2, Dreamcast, Gamecube and Wii are all emulated pretty poorly today, with lots of glitches, performance all over the place, game-specific hacks, dynamic recompilers, shader caches, and so on. If anything, t...

Thats ace. I need one of these now.

I'm more interested in cores for hardware that is unobtainable, or stupidly rare and expensive, rather than easily obtainable hardware (Dreamcast, Xbox, PS2, Gamecube). Such as Cantab's Jupiter Ace, Memotech's MTX 512, Enterprise 64/128, Original IBM 8086 PC, Full spec 90s PC with hardware acceleration - a full set is now starting to become valuabl...

Took an old wardrobe down to the tip today and there were 4 VGA CRT monitors in the TV bay. They won't let you take them away though. Such a shame. Yeah, I know someone at my local recycle centre, and the main reason is that IF you hurt yourself, or end up electrocuting yourself then who is liable ? The chap at my local recycle centre told me, the...

I don't think you'll find many, if any, VGA monitors that could do 15hz, or even 31hz. Most are probably 50hz minimum.
There are some old VGA LCD monitors that were able to do 15hz at their lowest resolution, but they often look terrible compared to a CRT.

kfreiberg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:12 pm You'll have to contact this guy to find out. Safety is NOT guaranteed!

He's clearly been back, to the 80s. I mean, just look at that hair, he brought 80s hair back with him. I might email him and ask him if, next time he goes, can he get me a Roland Jupiter 8.

RealLarry wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:40 am EDITED: I know. This was only an example that animation is possible. I'm with you that a very small animation of a core's splash screen or something like this would be sufficient. But this would mean that Bash/Daemon has to permanently send data to the device. Still doable.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

That looks a cool little thing. Can you animate the images ? Was thinking something like an animated 1541 drive would be superb, or for Atari - the 1050, or even a 1010 cassette drive. We, Venice and myself, are already working on the next level of core display. There, and with the actual tty2oled devices (ESP8266, ESP32), it would be possible in ...

That looks a cool little thing.
Can you animate the images ?
Was thinking something like an animated 1541 drive would be superb, or for Atari - the 1050, or even a 1010 cassette drive.

Blimey!! Didn't see this. A Spectravideo SV-328 core.
Always wanted one of these, but they go for silly money on ebay. And now we have it on Mister, even better.
Tried Hero, International Karate, and the Hyper Sports games, didn't realise if the core had locked or not - it was the slow tape loading taking much longer than expected to load.

I have the IPS version, and like someone above said it's not that great, and not very bright. Remember, these are 13+ years old. My 2020 BenQ 144hz 4k IPS leaves it in the dust. But, for the money they go for on ebay that aren't too bad. What you have to look out for, (and this is assuming the seller is willing in taking pics of the serial at the b...

grizzly wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:35 pm

MiSTer_Kirk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:18 pm I'm sure you have also paid for all those roms on your Mister, PC, Mac, whatever - Right ?

Off course we have!
With blood sweat and tears trying to find them all

Ain't that the truth

haven't paid the EDU prices on my DE-10 nano boards (I own 2), I am not a student so I did not feel like abusing the system/pricing. Some actual student with less money than I do actually need the discount, if people keep abusing these eventually those will no longer exist. I'm sure you have also paid for all those roms on your Mister, PC, Mac, wh...

Journeyman Project, The That was my very first Windows CDRom game, purchased in the UK in PC World, 1994 - just after I got my first CDRom drive, Soundblaster card, and an Intel Pentium 60 - for the time this was as fast as it got. The game always gives me that early 90's PC multimedia feeling. Castle of the Winds Is this a game about flatulence ?...

For Pi VGA there is this https://pinout.xyz/pinout/gertvga_666 And input lag, with Pi2Scart, is very close to the real thing - the Pi runs the emulators with their original 15KHz resolutions. http://pi2jamma.info/pi2scart Lag would more likely come from whatever USB controller used, such as USB arcade sticks - I believe there is a lag chart for USB...

Modern emulation has it's place. For example, RPCS3 makes me want to box up my PS3 and just use RPCS3. The higher resolutions, patches to take a 30fps game to a 60fps game - and this transforms games. Games like the Motorstorm games have a new lease of life at 4k, 60fps, rather than 720p 30fps. We also have Xenia, a Xbox 360 emulator - not as advan...

It's as close to the real thing as can be, and you can connect it to the original machine's display tech - a CRT. And apart from a few missing features, such as disk controller support still missing in cores like the BBC, for a tiny box it's much easier to maintain and keep in a permanent space - unlike my real hardware which I have to keep boxing ...

I didn't think they had write supprt ?
On my real BBC Master, when I used a MMC in the past, I found it very picky with writing. There were two MMC builds you could do, Turbo MMC, and Super MMC - I am not sure what Mister core supports. What it needs is proper ADFS disk support, then we can use actual .ssd images.

However personal attacks and insults to other users is unacceptable behaviour on this forum.

Understood, and apologies.