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That seemed to be hardware dependent. On the machine on which I ran Warp, I could run one DOS program at high speed and with minimal impact to the rest of the system. But if I tried to run two DOS programs, the system became extremely sluggish, just painful to use. Other people have said that their systems didn't do that; I was using cheap hardware...

Ick. That monitor is pushing twenty years old, and it may not talk well with the Mister's standard output. That was still early in the transition from CRT to LCD, and a lot of those LCD monitors didn't work all that well. They could be particularly troublesome with nonstandard/non-VGA timings, which the Mister board outputs quite frequently, becaus...

Really? How I wish you were here 2 years ago, you could've saved me a lotta cash and time with this helpful advice. *eyeroll* These kind of preachy, elitist attitudes are the reason why so many people stay away from the FPGA scene. Not that it really needs explaining, but there are limited hours in the day, especially for an adult with a job/famil...

akeley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:36 pm The first LAN is taken by internet from the router. If I have to do anything more complicated than just plugging into my current PC I will pass...there's enough hardware/cables in my den as it is.

In all seriousness, if you're this resolutely against learning new things, then boy, did you get involved in the wrong emulation project.

Not really Mister-related, but my favorite version of DOSBox is DOSBox ECE , aka Enhanced Community Edition. It's still pretty much regular DOSBox, but with some extra patches. The ones I really enjoy are the built-in MUNT and Fluidsynth, so that it works very similarly to having an MT32-Pi. You just have to provide the ROMs, and it handles everyth...

I tried running it and wasn't able to even get to the point of controlling anything. It just froze up during the intro.

Nobody has said this directly, but removing real SSH is not going to save a significant amount of space, and will increase the maintenance burden.

32 gig SD cards are under $10 now.

Mister should be as reliable with WiFi as the Linux underneath, so it's probably mostly about the driver and hardware quality of whatever dongle you've chosen. As a general observation, though, wireless networking is inherently unreliable, and can be messed up by factors out of your control, like noisy neighbors. Ethernet is solid as heck. Running ...

If you're that close to overloading your 3A supply, you might want to upgrade it to a 4A.

I don't have a source for you, but I read an interview about the Mister board awhile back that said that the FPGA board could be reprogrammed pretty much forever. The other components will fail long before it does.

If changes to the FPGA are permanent until rewritten, it might have been put into a state that prevented a system boot. Doing the reflash via JTAG would put it back to factory defaults. Since I don't know details about how the system actually boots, I can't even guess what the specific change might be, but it doesn't seem too weird to me that a bad...

Oh, if you're using actual Windows to make a Windows-style share, don't put permissions on the share itself. Instead, use NTFS permissions in the filesystem. For best safety, you should create a new account ("mister" is good), with a new password, and have Mister use those in cifs_mount.sh. That data is in plaintext, and you're downloadin...

Another user just had a problem with mounting a WinUAE image under Mister. I think the two emulators are disagreeing somewhere on formatting. Maybe once I get my RAM module working I can see if I can figure out what the difference is. There was some thinking in that other thread that it could be IDE versus SCSI. I got out of real Amigas relatively ...

With a real Amiga, you would partition and format a new hard drive, and then just not install any OS files. If you use the CLI, you can copy from a source volume to the destination; if you use the keyword 'clone', it will duplicate the file date. What I would probably do for Mister is to not use Mister. :) Instead, use WinUAE. Create your new HD im...

BTW, when I did it for myself, I went the other way: I set the user as mister and the group as my username group. (eg, if you're "johnsmith", this would be using the "johnsmith" group.) This is how my Samba config looks, with some redactions: [mister] browseable = yes path = /path/to/mister/dir guest ok = no read only = no creat...

Assuming that the Mister core can load more than one drive, you can simply provide a data drive without OS files on it. The Amiga can boot from one and read games from the other, no problem. I do this with WinUAE; I have a couple of different virtual hard drives with different OS versions, and then a Games HDF that loads separately and works with e...

Check to see if you can access the files from the Linux command line; this will tell you whether or not you have a permissions problem. (ie, ssh into Mister, navigate to /media/usb0/games/Amiga/shared, and see if you can cat the files and see garbage.) I'd also do a ls -l and see what the provided username and permissions are. If you can read the f...

Scanlines come from the fact that on ALL CRT tubes in tv/monitors it is a electron beam that is scanned across the tube to light up the fosfor on the inside of the tube for a picture. Thats why jlancaster is partly right in that he black lines is not scanned by the beam and should technically not be named scanlines. I wasn't even aware that people...

At least in theory, you shouldn't be able to kill your hardware just by unplugging the SD card. They're designed to be removable, so you should not have been able to, say, put any wrong voltages anywhere. What probably did happen is that the filesystem was corrupted by the sudden removal; the Mister software is doing some really bizarre stuff with ...

I don't even have my Mister booting yet (don't have all the hardware), but treating it like a normal Amiga, you can probably work around the problem. Since you can mount the A3000 image, you could create a native HDF with the Mister tools, and then just copy the files across. If you do it from the CLI, you'd end up with no effective difference. Thi...