MiSTer FPGA Forum

It’s a great idea. I’m guessing you can even pull it off *if* you’re willing to buy thousands of FPGAs that will then take you several years to sell. There are enough cores that are rock solid that if you could sell complete working systems WITH GAMES INSTALLED I could see you selling into the thousands quickly. But since you can’t do that, I think...

Oh, I should also mention that one of the original main developers of the Atari Polygon hardware and software is Jed Margolin, and he’s been VERY approachable and helpful with info on this stuff and I’m sure would be willing to answer questions of someone who was making a serious attempt at this. No, he ain’t gonna go do it, but having someone like...

Just some info since folks have asked for what I call “Atari Polygon” hardware, which is Hard Drivin, Race Drivin, and STUN Runner. First, I have boards to loan if anyone wants to dig in and take this core up. I am also willing to do some funding, but only for someone who is really serious and capable of getting stuff done. Some info I think is int...

Well, in fairness, while I agree that it would be MUCH better to be able to support the two screen PC10, it’s worth noting that the second screen LITERALLY does nothing useful on any but, what, ONE game? And there are single screen PC10’s (with a TOTALLY different motherboard, but very similar architecture). I’ve got one, and did that for my own ar...

Personally, I see a common MiSTer philosophical issue at play here: is the goal to be able to just “play the game”, or is the goal to be able to accurately reimplement the game PCB such that a MiSTer could (relatively) easily be used to replace an original game PCB in an actual cabinet? In *my* ideal world, the latter would be the ultimate goal of ...

Why can’t high score saving be done in-game? BitKit does it. I mean I know it requires some work per-core, but it still seems worth it.


—Donnie

I’m new here, but assuming someone got vector game cores working, would they REQUIRE a vector monitor or could they also work on an LCD? Yes, I know about all the reasons why an LCD would be inferior, but I’d REALLY rather have an FPGA solution than a MAME one in my repro MH cabinet, but I am *not* going to be trying to keep a vector CRT working. A...

I’d contribute real money to any effort to make it so that MiSTer could easily be used to replace the motherboard in a real EDOT. The coding is probably above my pay grade, but I have a real EDOT and I’d definitely help do the physical adapting. My board works and it’s not terrible to find someone who can repair those, but I’d still feel WAY better...