MiSTer FPGA Forum

I have the 5A Meanwell wall-wart version, very portable and has been working great. I plug it into a wall socket switch, so no more on/off switch in the 5 volt cable.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I didn't know Retrocastle made an active adapter. I ordered one. Now to see if I can have your design printed somewhere.

I wonder if the touch functionality works like a standard mouse and if it would work well with some of the mouse-controlled games on MiSTer, that would be pretty neat.

Could be, I've seen that happen before with other projects, where 'boring' useful additions were neglected in favor of exciting new features.

Woa, that is incredible. Great job! Cubase on the ST core will probably work really well with this.

If Jotego would be able to create a generic solution for highscores, I think it should be pretty high on the priority list, as highscores are an important element of arcade games.

There was a glass iPad screen protector on eBay that fit, but that exact size has been sold out for a while.

There is also a portable CreatiVision core for the Analogue Pocket, should you be interested in that.

d18c7db wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:13 am

There was in fact a problem with the 32MB SDRAM address multiplexing causing that issue and that has been fixed. I have released the System-1 in the official MiSTer repo since all the major problems affecting gameplay have been addressed.

I noticed that running update_all yesterday! Roadblasters looks fantastic now.

The 'spinner' setting is probably for MiSTer Spinner. Just like the 'paddle' setting is often also for the MiSTer specific interface. I wish the cores with those settings also had an option to choose mouse or analog joystick (which is what regular USB paddle adapters translate to).

Great to hear that it is working again! That is an odd solution, sounds like the contacts of the card or slot might have been dirty, but that seems a bit unlikely.

I hope your eyes are doing well!

Great stuff, nice to have a compilation that includes a lot of productivity software, I have a nice one for my A500 Mini as well.

You might get an answer sooner in the Dev-Talk channel of the MiSTer FPGA Discord.

The PDL adapter does use a different PID. I'm not at home at the moment, so I can't look it up, but I indeed edited the file by hand to make it work.

Morfious wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 4:47 pm

Just FYI it looks like a new versin was released on 10/20/2023. I have not tested the new updated version yet.

https://github.com/d18c7db/atari_system ... r/releases

Great to see it being actively developed! Looking forward to trying the updates.

There doesn't seem to be much of a difference in the amount of games that support a certain orientation.

My (iPad) monitor can turn both ways, but setting most to the same direction is more practical. What I did to choose a preferred orientation, was check which of my favorite games only supported one orientation.

Also, don't forget how power-efficient the MiSTer is, compared to the amount of energy needed for a fast enough system to achieve the same accuracy and low latency.

Flandango wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 9:51 pm

That device you linked on Amazon will not work. It's a serial to usb adapter, not a 9-pin joystick to usb adapter.

Oof, good catch! I had a quick glance and didn't notice that.

That one will probably work fine, don't know what latency it has. I have an USB adapter with two ports and found out its latency isn't great.

I have a Daptor D9 (and Daptor PDL) that have very good latency and work with a lot of controller types. They are a bit expensive though, especially with the added shipping to Europe.

The C64 (and Mini) / The VIC-20 have functionality to map keys to controller buttons per game. They can only map a preset collection of keys though. It is really handy though and used with a lot of games.

stepea wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:01 pm

not having much luck running this core. Got the bios roms, got the latest build. Trying to run it on a 9.7 ipad screen - would this make a difference. Not sure where I'm going wrong.

The core runs fine on my iPad screen, so that shouldn't be causing trouble.

This is a huge improvement! Very handy for Atari 8-bit cores, for instance. Also for Commodore 8-bit machines.

I never expected this to be implemented so suddenly. There have been multiple discussions about it before.

You can even choose between lots of 6581 filter variations on the MiSTer, to simulate the difference between individual chips.