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Ah, great! I'll do that now.

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Hi Nat,

I just wanted to ask, as Pi Zero 2 W's are (finally!) widely available in the UK again, will you be selling any pre-built MT32-Pi Lites? I'm not sure my soldering skills are up to making one myself, and regardless can't find that USB connector available individually.

Thanks!

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RetroCastle wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 6:03 pm This is my Mister FPGA

Is that a custom build or is it available to buy somewhere? That passive case looks like the smallest integrated IO/USB MiSTer setup I've seen.

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Hi! I just checked the shop and I cannot seem to find any "ready to use" MP32-Pi hats, just the unpopulated PCB. Are these available yet? I think the unpopulated PCBs were literally just added in the last day, so give Nat a chance! :) I'll be waiting for the complete hat too as I don't trust my soldering skills, I managed to sheer off on...

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Hi Nat, do you have any plans to stock the new MT32-pi hat? https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Hardware_MiSTer/tree/master/Addons/MT32PiHat I've been impressed by the quality of your boards so far (I ordered a USB 2.1 hub late last year) and was hoping I'd be able to get one of these from you as well, ideally including the upper top board which acts a...

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vampsthevampyre wrote: ↑Sat Dec 12, 2020 4:10 pm AluMiSTer looks fantastic need more details

It's the new aluminium case Porkchop Express (misteraddons.com) has just started selling, I just finished putting mine together.
https://misteraddons.com/blogs/news/same-but-different

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AluMiSTer.jpg

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Instead of a multi-option config.sys or a floppy, it's also possible to just load EMM386 on demand when you need it if you use a device driver loader like Devload, available from https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/devload.html For example, I have the following in a batch file called ems.bat in ...

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Yes that's true, but in this case it was a border at the top and bottom that wasn't present on HDMI.

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Thanks for the replies. @SuperBabyHix 1280x960 works reasonably, except Neo Geo which for some reason needs 1280x900 or I'll get a small border. Like you say it's not ideal, but I can live with it. @ash2fpga Yes, Rysha on the discord also mentioned that "full screen" scaling would be good to add when I brought this up, so hopefully that h...

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I have an old LCD TV/monitor with a VGA connection that I'm using with my MiSTer at the moment, and after some experimentation I've found out that its native panel resolution is 1280x1024. However it has a 4:3 aspect ratio not 5:4 which seems to make it pretty unusual, an LCD without square pixels! Ideally I've love to use the panel at its native r...

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Thank you for the instructions YLFAndy, much appreciated. I found that if you don't eject the floppy when prompted during setup and just allow it to boot to a command prompt, you can make the autoexec.bat and config.sys changes then at the same time as renaming ESDI_506.PDR. Then eject the floppy and reboot, and Windows setup will continue successf...

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XDVD2 seems to consume the same memory as xcdrom (which makes sense as it's written by the same guy) except XDVD2 adds an XMS cache and takes a little longer to start. They seem to benchmark the same as the others (unfortunately still 3x-4x slower under Windows than real DOS).

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It does, I tested it before writing my comment above when I mentioned it and the other CD drivers that work. If the file isn't bad (the one from RealLarry's post above should be fine) then you most likely have something else in your setup that's making the CD unreliable.

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That, or press and hold whatever you configured as your menu 'OK' button with the disk selected, then press whatever you configured as your menu 'Back' button while still holding OK. That also unmounts.

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I can't get the CD-ROM to work. I've used simple config.sys and autoexec.bat based on the ones I use in my actual 486. Everything seems to work during boot, but it doesn't matter whether I mount an ISO, a bin file, or anything else in 1-0, I get a "NOT READY READING DRIVE D" error. Try a very minimal config just to eliminate those other ...

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As this seems to be the relevant topic, I just thought I'd share my findings about which DOS mode CD drivers work: OAKCDROM.SYS - Oak generic driver, it's the one that comes with the Windows boot disk, but it's also slow to start and consumes by far the most memory. VIDE-CDD.SYS - Acer driver, this one gets recommended regularly on Vogons as it's o...

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NightShadowPT wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 1:38 am Yeah, I know, that's the version I originally played, but unfortunately it doesn't have the voiced dialog.

Anyway, let's keep dreaming

Just FYI it looks like the developer released the 3DO source and there's an open source port which includes that voiced dialogue: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

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Unfortunately GOG versions are bound to be hit and miss when you're installing on Windows 9x. DOSBox releases will likely be OK, but many of the Windows ones will have had updates to work on modern versions of Windows that break compatibility with old ones. I tried with my GOG version of Warcraft 2 and ran into all sorts of problems. I can confirm ...

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