MiSTer FPGA Forum

Well now that's curious...Alan's build sort of works. I got a one-disk version with all 4 versions of BBC Elite from Ian Bell's site (attached), which refers to the coprocessor version as the '6502 Second Processor Elite Executive Version'. It successfully boots, but upon selecting the copro version, I get "Sorry, this version requires a 6502 ...

Please note: This is coming from a US-based user who has never seen, nor known anyone personally who has ever seen a BBC Micro or Master in their lives and has absolutely no concept whatsoever what they are doing, particularly with MMB. That being said, in my quest to play the 'ultimate' version of Elite (which by all accounts is, indeed, the BBC M...

Wait'll we get 32X and then people bitch there's no CD support *LOL*

@Kitrinx thank you VERY much!

Really? When I assign difficulty switches to gamepad buttons, my OSD reflects the change every time I push it, even when playing 2600 games (in the 7800 core - the 2600-dedicated core is deprecated and not what's being discussed).

Still doesn't explain how so many of us *did* update the Linux version (which is full, by the way, not partial, so it wouldn't matter if you started with Mr. Fusion or not) and our clock still works as expected.

No physical RTC here and very literally never had the problem described after nearly 2 years.

@dmckean Just curious about your perspective - what's wrong with the 32X portion of Picodrive?

Is it still not possible to use keyboard for switches and joystick for input? (Ideally, I'd like to use a legitimate 7800 controller, but that'd be difficult for some 2600 games that used the switches as input.) This would be great. Select and start are already mapped to F1 and F2. It would be great to have Left A/B, Right A/B and the Colour/BW sw...

Has anyone else noticed a strange white spot ahead of your car in 2600 Enduro? It doesn't show up on snow or at night, but during daytime driving it's maybe 2-3 carlengths ahead of your car and 'follows' it left to right. I've adjusted every setting and filter I can find and can't get rid of it...it's very odd. EDIT: Scratch that. Hard reset MiSTe...

I actually didn't think they shared any hardware at all, which is why 32X was viewed as so wasteful in light of the imminent release of the Saturn.

@Neocaron I don't think that will be viable as the filters/masks are dependent on the MiSTer framework, which (ironically) isn't used at all in ScummVM being a pure Linux ARM application. There's also barely enough CPU headroom for ScummVM as-is, adding video post-processing to it is likely to make it too slow to be usable.

The costs of the parts (at wholesale - and given they are both manufacturer and supplier, that matters and why there IS NO SUBSIDY) are *not* greater than the price of the board, and Intel _does_ make a (smaller) profit off every board sold...it's simply priced for the target audience. Not very difficult to understand.

_There_ _is_ _no_ _subsidy_.

I wish this rumor would be put to rest once and for all.

The Japanese release is the original release for the vast majority of arcade games.

They are also usually exclusively in Japanese.

See the problem?

Both the 64 and 128 could definitely handle 2400 baud, at least with an Aprotek Minimodem.

Did I see...tape?

Questions (since I can't look at the core right now):

- Is this hardware tape deck attach or virtual via WAV?
- Either way, does it support writing?

So cool! This is one of those systems that really NEEDS tape support, since it was how so very many of us got our start!

Well, on the other hand, you actually got a DE-10 (at any price) NIB...which is rather challenging to do by any other means these days.

Maybe it's always been the 2600 Jr. core and we just didn't realize?

I am VERY confused.

Why does Sorg have a problem with this, but not the C64 Maxi interface over USB?

In 10-20 years, anyone still caring about 2600 gaming will be academic researchers and masochists. LOL Like many 'retro' platforms, its value lies largely (if not entirely) in nostalgia of those who enjoyed it when it was current/modern. I wish it were otherwise, but my kids' kids are not going to be playing 2600 games.

akeley wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 3:33 pm I did say "in the long run" for a reason...

Unless the 'long run' means 'after MiSTer is abandoned as a platform', it will still apply...and afterwards it won't matter.

The challenge is dual maintenance and the inevitable disconnect that will occur - for example, sound improvements in one SHOULD carry over to the other, but likely won't with separate cores.

Is it still not possible to use keyboard for switches and joystick for input? (Ideally, I'd like to use a legitimate 7800 controller, but that'd be difficult for some 2600 games that used the switches as input.)

ericgus09 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:39 pm I loved hypercard as well .. it just makes me sad there is really no modern version of it now .. to think what it COULD HAVE evolved into..

...the World Wide Web?

Thank you both VERY much - this is exactly what I was looking for!

LamerDeluxe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 7:52 am You can get integer horizontal scaling with correct aspect ratio by just calculating the correct value for the vscale border. That's what I use with the vertical arcade cores to get perfectly clean vertical scanlines.

Can you expand on this a bit if you don't mind?

chrisy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 2:58 pm I wonder if this could be used to provide a PPC CPU as an accelerator board - make it possible to run WarpOS/PowerUp software or even OS4 Classic. Not sure if the ARM is fast enough to emulate PPC though?

That would be a hard no. x86 barely is.

Pong is an analog game represented digitally on MiSTer. One does not preclude the other. Pong is not analog, it just has a primitive transistor-transistor logic design lacking integrated circuits instead of using a microprocessor like many post-1975 arcade games. In fact Nolan Bushnell used to falsely claim back in the day that Magnavox Odyssey wa...

Pong is an analog game represented digitally on MiSTer. One does not preclude the other.