MiSTer FPGA Forum

It's on my to-do list but a long way off (still got to get the previous generation of Sega/Gremlin stuff finished before I that) so I'll not be bothered if someone else gets there first! Hi Jimmy, This is a great machine, one I encountered on a ferry to France, I could not play it enough and is a go to game for Mame alongside Galaxian. Is it getti...

This is odd, I am starting to wonder if something changed in the MiSTer framework that prevents this from working on the analog output. What I Now you that say it, I checked some vertical games last week also (not structured because I only have a horizontal TV) and I was wondering that the flip option only worked digital and not analog. Q-Bert was...

I've had a few people ask me about these. So bottom line, I'm in no rush to make these, as parts are super hard to get right now. I'll be doing the prototype soon and I'll get some pics, but the final versions will be specifically ordered metal joystick boxes that cost a ton, so the final stick price will be above $500 USD, if not a LOT above $500...

Sorry for pissing on your party guys, but can you inform me where one can source an OG LS-30!? There's this recent HORI concept incorporating a rotary stick, but a surviving LS-30 one can get hold of is akin to buying the Mona Lisa ;) I don't know where you would find an original easily but I have Ultimarc rotary encoders on the sticks in my cabin...

Hi Zeosstud, I would also like to play these games in portrait mode. See this thread. https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=179&p=1976&hilit=gorf+rotate#p1976 Given that these games flip for cocktail play it should be possible to patch the rom to setup the screen for P1 to display the same as P2 but it is beyond my coding. I might...

Does this monitor rotate to portrait both ways so Gorf and Centipede will be playable in portrait mode as my Dell only rotates one way? The Asus Pro Art PA248QV comes with a stand that rotates 90 degrees in either direction, but if you have an existing monitor you already like you can probably save money by buying a VESA arm mount instead. Good Ca...

Does this monitor rotate to portrait both ways so Gorf and Centipede will be playable in portrait mode as my Dell only rotates one way?

Maybe someone smarter than me can hunt for these calls in the rom and patch it? https://groups.io/g/ballyalley/message/16710 ;****************************************************************************************** ; ( UPSIDE DOWN RELABS ROUTINES FOR COCKTAIL MODE USE ) ; SUBR cockrel norrel CALL, XCHG, 3FBF H LXI, A ANA, ; D DSBC, C A MOV, 0C0 X...

What I remember is that some arcade cores expect the vertical blank at the other side of the display, which is why it wouldn't be trivial to change the direction. ...but Gorf has a cocktail mode where the game either way ina 2 player game so why is it not possible to rotate this output for P1 the same way as for P2? As the display code exists in t...

Sorry to hear that after QBert was fixed.

Given Gorf has flipped modes in both directions for cocktail I thought this might be reasonably simple.

Perhaps this could be done with a rom hack instead.

This would be an interesting core to add if somebody could.

6502 based circa 1983 so a Vic20 competitor but with some nice graphics effects especially Pacman clone "Crazy Pucker" with a border on screen.

I would be interested to compare to other same era machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1D4jAyo0q4&t=48s

Yes a great classic game that is not so easy.

To piggyback off MeduZaPaT, we were able to successfully build the application in a Docker environment and transfer it to the DE-10 Nano and run it in the Linux OS. From the command line, all operations appear to be working properly. Two main questions remain: 1) Is there a preferred way to distribute Linux binaries/libraries for MiSTer? 2) Anothe...

What was the killer app for the Lynx? Did it have one? The 2 games demonstrated are not the best, probably coded in Basic. I had a Lynx around the 2000s but the software was so rare it was not worth me keeping it a sit could not hold my interest. I had most of the 80s machines available in the UK but sold them for this reason. The Vic20 is the best...

X started warrior on my keyboard.

Go to F12 menu and cursor right and redefine the keys including P1 and P2 start. Works well with speech too.

mrtomato wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:40 pm I have question how to boot game. I use rbf from mega server, last version was from end of february. Only option to boot this thing is to set option to that do sth with roms, but I am unable to go past the bios screen.

Are you pressing the F12 key to get to the screen to select something to launch?

I suggest that you check the USB ports still work with another device.

Could the USB hub have been dislodged?

Try disconnecting the hub and reconnecting it.

Try a memory stick that lights up or another simple device.

Please post how you are rotating with the scaler.

Ini file settings.

Thanks.

I have looked into this further and it is possible with a little effort as demonstrated by using cocktail cabinet mode. Gorf and Moon Cresta both have cocktail cabinet modes and are able to rotate the display the other way for Player 2 so the vertical refresh timing comments above are not the constraint. The original game and the core can do this w...

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I think it is a temporary fix to get it working.

Coin and P2 is not supported at this time although they register in the test mode.

Could they be converted to Scalable Vector format SVG and make use of that rather than bitmap?

Vector graphic overlay would be more fitting for a Vector System

I ran it with overlays on a Dell 2001 FP 1600x1200 monitor last night and it is almost perfect.

I tested it by placing a Minestorm overlay over the MiSTer display to compare overlay sizes.

Make sure you have any monitor stretch / fill functions off

lomdar67 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:38 am

Vic20-Ian wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:28 am Select F12 to select game and load an overlay file.

Hope we can somehow "connect" the rom and the overlay at a later time. Maybe with an additional config file or a simple naming convention?

If you leave it as is then there is more choice to try other overlays.

Unzip the Overlays to a folder called overlays. Copy this folder into the folder where Vectrex Games are. Place the new Vectrex.rbf in _Consoles folder (I renamed mine as VectrexOvr.rbf) Start Mister and run the VectrexOvr core Minestorm boots with no overlay Select F12 to select game and load an overlay file. Pole Postion, Bedlam and Minestorm tes...

I played Myriad, Arcadia and Omega race a lot as a kid. The VIC has a lot of enjoyable games, I also like Gorf, Choplifter, Radar Rat Race, Jetpac, Skyhawk and Robot Panic, plus lots of others. Too bad many of the best ones are not included, but it makes sense, as there are a lot of arcade ports. You can play them all from USB Stick ;-) Yes, lucki...

LamerDeluxe wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 6:29 pm I played Myriad, Arcadia and Omega race a lot as a kid. The VIC has a lot of enjoyable games, I also like Gorf, Choplifter, Radar Rat Race, Jetpac, Skyhawk and Robot Panic, plus lots of others.

Too bad many of the best ones are not included, but it makes sense, as there are a lot of arcade ports.

You can play them all from USB Stick

Yes but does your MiSTer have a lovely Vic20 Keyboard with PET keyboard font on sculpted keys (never produced like that but cool) and off white case with Tan coloured function keys? There have been conversions of The C64 to Raspberry Pi so no reason not to put your MiSTer into The Vic20 :-) The Vic20 also has licenced some more of the old games. Th...

you cannot modify MRA that way. If button is not implemented, it can't be added through MRA. Core needs update. We have Inviso working with changes to the MRA but realise this is not the correct way to deal with it. Invisio is confounded with Start P1 doing it this way....but it makes the game playable. Please could you take a look at the core for...

Sorgelig wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:43 pm 1) open core button mapping
2) assign RIGHT button to reverse button on your controller
3) skip LEFT button
4) assign all other buttons

@Sorgelig

I tried this as you can see above and StartP1 and Inviso are confounded.

Please can you take a look and see if there is something missing in Stargate core, it is not the same as Defender

Thanks.

I could only get it to work with a 720 time out and I have a 200Mbit connection