MiSTer FPGA Forum

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think one of the reasons some of the games are underperforming is because sysctl can't yet set the core to very high speeds.

I'm pretty sure if you put an entry in names.txt that is just "<core>:" without quotes (i.e. aliasing the core name to nothing), it has the effect of hiding it in the menu.

Hmm...OK, that blows my theory. :/

Anyone know if this happens to run (well) on a Pi Zero 2 W? If so, one HDMI audio tap later...

What is your vsync_adjust set to?

@dickhardpill CHD can represent extremely significant (read: more than 50%) savings vs. BIN, depending on the nature of the content.

@Idelacio Thank you very much for the information!

To be honest, for Gold Box, my jam back in the day was on the C64...but ye Gods, the floppies! LOL

@Idelacio Asking entirely out of ignorance...wouldn't the Gold Box games be better suited to the XT? (I may be misremembering timeframes here.)

SNAC isn't supported, but the latency of Daemonbite is low enough you wouldn't notice the difference in practice.

EF is already supported.

Huh. I just looked up a photo (which I probably should have started with LOL), and sure enough, you're right - they are indeed wider than I remember, and absolutely not 4:3. Ah, the beauty of 35-year-old memories. laughs

@Swainy What was wrong with it? Sounds fine to me (and certainly easy enough to check for yourself!)

@Stinky The floppy write change never made it into the public release, did it?

Wow - I'm impressed, and agree this is absolutely the way forward for "config-free" period-correct PC gaming.

Salut!

That's pretty strange. It's not...

• power, because the USB bus is detected
• the USB cable, because the device is detected
• the USB controller, because the device is recognized

yet xpad seems really unhappy.

Do you have a different controller that isn't an xbox pad emulation that you could test with (i.e. anything directinput)? A keyboard?

@christian776 What is the the output of the following?

cat /var/log/messages

and

dmesg

?

There just aren't a lot of complex components on that board to fail, but if you're sure you've got +5V on the board...it's dead, Jim. :/

It may look like it's connecting well, but if that power is lost, the ports shut down...I saw exactly the same on mine, and you could 'bump' the MiSTer and everything would come back. My solution to ensure a very solid connection was to solder a wire between the connection point on the bottom of the board and the "finger".

What form does that bridge take on yours? More specifically, where did you obtain it? (That bridge can occasionally get finicky if it's a metal "finger" that extends up to the DE-10 versus a plug.)

Which USB board and how does it receive power?

Curious - did they have a black or blue plastic piece in the plug? USB 3.0 is always blue.

Touche! =)

No accessory for Hoth Luke? Sacrilege! =)

@Syntax Error What makes you think the core won't run EF carts?

Problem with Keyrah is that one of the lines on port 2 is shared with port 1, so you can end up with crossover in less-than-ideal circumstances.

I did this:

https://github.com/rhester72/c64_universal_usb_kb

(with a real C64 breadbin that had a very much broken motherboard)