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werpu

Well getting a more accurate Vectrex display output probably would be a high on my list. The current way the vectors are displayed simply is not accurate at all. You would need a blur filter on top of the lines with brighter connection points and some sort of pulse frequency. Besides the higher resolution everything else could be done by post proce...

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Jepp saw that, amazing stuff!

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Yes sorry, it was misleading asteroids was huge back in the day...

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Yeah, my biggest wish for MiSTer vector games is improved fidelity - they just don't look great, but I realize it's a pretty niche request. Also, while we're wishing big, incorporating HDR would help improve the vector display emulation as well. Last time I played Asteroids on a real arcade machine, I was shocked at how bright your ship and "...

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^ I agree the video output could be improved. The video output is very definitely pixelated. Even if vector effects like persistence and bloom weren't added, increasing the resolution would greatly improve the appearance. Actually a perfect emulation of the output would be following a) increase resolution to remove the edges b) add a blur effect t...

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Btw. now I am getting nitpicky, the vectrex core now works fine, rotation works like a charm, thanks Sorgelig for fixing this. The thing which irks me most and which instantly shows that the screen is "emulated" is that the vectors are badly emulated. A normal phosphor based vector display has no edges and shows a mild bloom around the li...

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pbsk8 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:34 pm
If you give it to Robert Peip, he will do it in 2 months tops

2 months? More like 2 days, the speed of this guy is insane!

werpu

Ok just checked the latest change notes, from Sorg... seems like he has added a rotate option to the Vectrex core, finally, and thank you Sorgelig for doing it. This is absolutely great, I will update asap!

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Found this one, apparently there is an oem which manufactures that beast and various brands sell it for different prices. I ordered one in the 150 bucks price range, should come this week. And yes, I figured 16:10 is the closest you can get to 4:3 for cheap bigger displays atm, I just wished someone would do a portable oled panel in this size. Anyw...

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Does this work also for starting shell scripts? I would love to place ScummVM, BasiliskII etc... in a more games like section instead of having to go to the scripts folder to access them!

werpu

Wing Commander 2 no sound, any ideas?
Hi does anyone have this problem. I guess it is somewhere in the ini settings to be fixed.

Update: found at least an indication: viewtopic.php?p=13942&hilit=wing+commander+2#p13942 I will give a direct setup a shot (aka change the config)

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@sorgelig ? Any chance we can get the patch into the cores?

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Any chance that the cores will be adapted so that we can switch between the ports?
Every time a core is updated this needs to be repatched in as far as I can understand!

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Actually the N64 was pretty powerful, the problem was for cost reasons Nintendo saved on ram (a mistake they admitted later) and for paranoia they went with modules. The hardware itself was awesome and the gpu the strongest of that generation by miles it was just basically entirely castrated by the cost cutting measures and piracy paranoia. I wonde...

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I guess on the 1st of April 2026 he will announce a working Ps3 core for the MiSTer...
Just kidding, I am absolutely psyched for this core.

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thats about the time I lost interest in the arcades UnfortunateIy it's the same for me. While I really appreciate their work and I like playing some very few newer games like Puzzle Bobbel or Metal Slug, my love goes to the golden age. I wonder nowadays why. But I guess it must have something to do with creativity going down the drain post Marble ...

werpu

Btw. thank you for trying to fix the sound issue, as others have said, good enough always is relative, if there is an improvement, then there is an improvement!

Btw. given that we already have 17 posts here, it seems that I have opened a can of worms!

werpu

Elevator Action (Taito System SJ) is already under development though I don´t remember the author now. Robert has said several times he dislikes arcades so I bet for a console like 3DO or Jaguar -I would love PGM but IS an arcade board similar to Neogeo MVS-. I wish your list come to reality some day. Thanks! I had heard about Elevator Action also...

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Hi, I have noticed that some cores after the authors have determined they were good enough, have seem to have been abandoned. Maybe we can roll a small missing features list here, that someone who can do fpga programming might tackle the task. I would not even mind seeing someone with a patreon here doing the task, he would have my money instantly....

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Is there a developer that cares especially for the Golden Age or earlier Arcade games? I would gladly support him. Well I think there is not too much interest into those games, most devs I noticed care mostly about late 80s early 90s arcade games which consist mostly of shooters ans brawlers (thats about the time I lost interest in the arcades bec...

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Elevator Action (Taito System SJ) is already under development though I don´t remember the author now. Robert has said several times he dislikes arcades so I bet for a console like 3DO or Jaguar -I would love PGM but IS an arcade board similar to Neogeo MVS-. I wish your list come to reality some day. Thanks! I had heard about Elevator Action also...

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mario64 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:58 am
I honestly hope it isn't Virtual Boy. I have a consolized VB and it just isn't the same. These games were designed to be played in 3D. Playing them in 2D on a TV is not very fun imo.

Virtual boy screams for an emulator and a VR or AR headset...
I guess the perfect combo atm would be a virtual boy emu and an nreal air...

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My first thoughts were directed towards 3DO or Virtual Boy. However, based on the clues that he has given on his Patreon page (including a screenshot), my bet is now on a different beast. With this in place, I'm now able to try and run all kind of homebrew or original software. While most fully-fledged programs won't do anything yet, being able to...

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Normal controllers and a keyboard, but given most atari 5200 games do not really use the pad anyway you can play most of them with something like a gamepad or an arcade stick.

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If Wikipedia is correct, yes and no: In 1982, after Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project by Apple's board of directors,[4] he appropriated the Macintosh project from Jef Raskin, who had originally conceived of a sub-$1,000 text-based appliance computer in 1979. Jobs immediately redefined Macintosh as a less expensive and more focused versi...

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Amazing, thank you, imaging seeing all this in 1983, this must have felt like science fiction! (UIs back then were totally unknown by the general public) Apparently there were some games ported, including the original Wizardry: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/huvrma/wizardry_on_my_apple_lisais_that_too_retro/ Good question how many of...

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https://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code Short explanation for some who dont know it yet. Apples Lisa was the predecessor to the macintosh, heavily influenced by the Xerox Parc research machines, it to my knowledge still used Smalltalk as operating system and programming environment. Might be an interesting addition for a new core, now that...

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Ok thanks, then we probably have to wait for the core authors to do that. The Vextrex definitely would need it, given that the original console was 3:4 instead of 4:3 to mimic the arcade cabinets of its time. Reedit, I checked the core on github again, seems pretty abandone to me. Too bad, thats basically the last really important function missing ...

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I would like to see the Virtual Boy preserved for FPGAs. I have one and most of the NA library that I'd be willing to loan or give to a developer if a sacrificial unit would be needed to make that happen. The virtual boy probably would be preserved best via VR not FPGA... FPGA does not really give the hardware the justice it deserves! Speaking of,...

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Hi I have a question. I now have a rotatable monitor attached to my mister. Problem is, while rotating the monitor and changing the display orientation works really well in the arcade cores, the Vectrex core is missing such a possibility. Is there any way to achieve that maybe in the mister settings itself by altering the mister ini display setting...

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