MiSTer FPGA Forum

nizce wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:38 pm Just received mine. Didn’t come with a power adapter. Anyone know if the center of the 12 barrel plug should be positive or negative?
Or can I simply use an iPad charger to power it via the micro USB port(don’t know how many amps is needed)?

Positive centre

Just received mine. In landscape orientation, the display has a single pixel width vertical black line:


Any suggestions on how to fix this? I’m happy to get my hands dirty

I've tried booting a few "PC Booter" floppy images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PC_booter_games

All that I've tried so far give me "Boot failed: not a bootable disk". Is this something we should expect to work on ao486 or no?

I'm interested if we can get these old PC Booters running

rhester72 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:11 pm

jamesfmackenzie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:10 pm Anyone able to get sound/music working in Secret of Monkey Island? The game is supposed to auto-detect (no way to configure sound settings). I get no sound at all

Haven't tried that game, but is the BLASTER environment variable set properly?

Yes - first thing I tried. Unfortunately makes no difference for me

Anyone able to get sound/music working in Secret of Monkey Island? The game is supposed to auto-detect (no way to configure sound settings). I get no sound at all

I got C&C working but it was a bit odd. I don't know why exactly this works but rebind Game.dat using DOS32A (sb -r Game.dat) This will spit out a file named Game.exe. Rename that back to Game.dat and then launch the game using C&C.exe as usual. Depends on how you installed C&C is my thinking. If you just copied it over from an already...

I used a C&C rip found somewhere, ..., which was preinstalled and started it from within Win95. I didn't want to make ISO from my old CDs and install again and try lot of things just to test it short. Dos/4GW is known to have problems with the core, so either use Dos/32A or Windows to run these games. Same e.g. with Warcraft 2. I tried DOS/32A...

I used a C&C rip found somewhere, ..., which was preinstalled and started it from within Win95. I didn't want to make ISO from my old CDs and install again and try lot of things just to test it short. Dos/4GW is known to have problems with the core, so either use Dos/32A or Windows to run these games. Same e.g. with Warcraft 2. I tried DOS/32A...

Anyone else able to get Command & Conquer working? I encountered the following issues with DOS 6.22: 1. Unable to install game - installer hangs at 0%. Same issue with SHSUCDHD and FakeDr. Worked around this issue by using PCEM to create a VHD with C&C pre-installed 2. Unable to start game - DOS/4GW crash with "Professional Error (200...

Added: - 1602 A.D.(unplayable) - Age of Empires(unplayable) - Broken Sword - Command & Conquer - EarthSiege2(unplayable) - Grand Prix 2 - Grand Prix Manager 2 - Holiday Island - MinerVGA - Nascar - Stunts - Winpolis Anyone else able to get Command & Conquer working? I encountered the following issues with DOS 6.22: 1. Unable to install gam...