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by radicalbyte
Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:57 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: What Do You Think Will Happen Once MiSTer Reaches It's Limits?
Replies: 92
Views: 54891

Re: What Do You Think Will Happen Once MiSTer Reaches It's Limits?

We see emulation trying to spruce up the horrific quality of yesterday's visuals in 3D by increasing resolution, frame rate, texture detail etc. When was the last time we saw that happening with Commodore 64 games? What we're seeing there instead is an attempt to turn those 4K TV's into CRT's with tricks like scanlines and shadow mask emulation es...
by radicalbyte
Wed Aug 03, 2022 3:44 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: What Do You Think Will Happen Once MiSTer Reaches It's Limits?
Replies: 92
Views: 54891

Re: What Do You Think Will Happen Once MiSTer Reaches It's Limits?

I've said this in other threads, but the limitation is becoming people more than the FPGA. The DE-10 is probably pretty well matched to what individual hobbyists can actually do. Even if you postulate an infinite-size FPGA, going much further than has already been done would require Herculean amounts of labor; the original Cell processor took like...
by radicalbyte
Sat May 15, 2021 6:59 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: What Do You Think Will Happen Once MiSTer Reaches It's Limits?
Replies: 92
Views: 54891

Re: What Do You Think Will Happen Once MiSTer Reaches It's Limits?

I've been really enjoying playing with the MiSTer and the 8/16 bit cores; these are machines where timing is vital to the systems and at the same time impossible to implement in an emulator on modern PC hardware. Later systems aren't a great match - the code written for an Xbox / PS2 / Gamecube doesn't rely on exact timings so you can achieve a fan...