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Fuzzball

Thanks for the hint. I added "-s 16" to the downloader script. If you use Linux to download, why don't you use jdownloader? That should give you good speeds on archive and easy link pasting. I don't want to install Java on my machine for various reasons. I was also hoping to use the script to automate everything rather than having to man...

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I have significantly increased the download speed from this script by change the aria2 commands from: aria2c -x16 ........ to aria2c -s16 -x16 .......... It's gone from 1.5Mb/s to 7.2Mb/s. Still below what I can get in uGet but still a big improvement. Only other thing I have noticed is that each time I restart the script it downloads and unzips ev...

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I also needed to remove the 2 hard coded paths to aria2 by define a path variable to it at the top of the script. Now I am getting this error for every download (example Alone in the Dark 3): Checking: Alone in the Dark 3.zip Zip and contents verified. Downloading... 04/30 20:15:36 [ERROR] Failed to load trusted CA certificates from /etc/ssl/certs/...

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I haven't looked at the script, but Python may well be in a different place or have a different name from what the script expects. What's the output of the "which python" command on your system? If your system knows Python 3 by the name "python" it will tell you the path. If the script looks in a different place, you could duct...

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Bas wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:28 am
Jq is a package that queries JSON and should be installable through your distro package manager.

Thanks. I didn't even think to check there. It is now complaining that "python" is missing. My linux distro already has python3 installed.

Fuzzball

Rather than using the download script on the Mister, I would rather run it on my Linux PC. I have downloaded the script and changed the defined directories. I have removed the aria2c download section because I would rather install that from the Linux repository which I have done. On trying to run the script it is complaining about missing command &...

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Some good points made. Personally, the comments on arcade cores and the simplicity/convenience of the Mister hit home the most. I don't think I could ever have the time or inclination to try setting up the same arcade setup on any other device. I never really got to play arcade games as a kid so get to see what I missed out on. To give a little mor...

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I have recently found myself questioning my purchase of a Mister FPGA. I don't own a CRT and I have absolutely no intention of getting one. I have found myself using software emulation quite a bit the last few weeks and I really can't tell the difference. It got me questioning if the only real reason to use a Mister is if you have a CRT to plug int...

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akeley wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:26 pm
Did you try to redefine mappings in-core? (F12 --> Define Spectrum buttons)

I had tried redefining them at the global level but I didn't know defining them at a core level was a thing. This resolved it. Thanks.

Fuzzball

I know. The joystick is set to Kempston in the Mister settings and I am selecting Kempston in game. The buttons work. The joystick doesn't. It's the same in any Spectrum game but for other cores (at least the ones I have tried) the gamepad works fine.

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I have an 8BitDo NeoGeo gamepad that is working fine on other cores but only the buttons work on the gamepad with the Spectrum core. The joystick is not working at all. Any ideas why this might be?

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which might mean that DOSBox expects VHD sizes to be multiples of 516096 (512 * 63 * 16) bytes. The source code for DOSBox and DOSBox Staging seems to confirm this. They don't even attempt to read the geometry data from the VHD, as far as I can tell. DOSBox-X does read the geometry data. When I used DOSBox-X for macOS, I was able to mount the Colo...

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Thanks. I will look into why Dosbox isn't detecting the geometry in the footer.

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I am considering using Dosbox on my PC rather than the ao486 core on the Mister. I thought I would see if I can attach a vhd from the 0mhz collection to it. However on using the imgmount command to mount it I get the error: Could not extract drive geometry from image. Use parameter -size bps,spc,hpc,cyl to specify the geomettry. Does anyone know wh...

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What are you using on your PC to achieve those speeds? I'll implement aria into the script, it'll take me a few days though.. uGet on Zorin OS Edit: I've been looking at some of the additions to the 0mhz collection on archive.org and have just realised that for quite a few of them there are comments saying that these are probably beyond the capabi...

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rhester72 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:46 pm
I'm pretty sure if you put an entry in names.txt that is just "<core>:" without quotes (i.e. aliasing the core name to nothing), it has the effect of hiding it in the menu.

I'll give that a go. Thanks.

Fuzzball

Trying to use the download script for this for the first time since installing the initial collection. However, the big issue here is that when I downloaded the collection on my PC I can use a download manager with multiple connections to archive.org and the download maxes out my internet connection. Using the script on the Mister it is using the ...

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I would like to setup my Mister so that the menu only shows cores that I have currently copied games to the corresponding folder. However, I still want the cores to be present, setup and updated by the update scripts. Is this possible?

Fuzzball

Trying to use the download script for this for the first time since installing the initial collection. However, the big issue here is that when I downloaded the collection on my PC I can use a download manager with multiple connections to archive.org and the download maxes out my internet connection. Using the script on the Mister it is using the s...

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...I was looking for the option to instead of pressing enter to start the core, press a different key that just brings up the settings dialog for that core and allows you to insert a floppy disk before starting. Unfortunately it isn't possible to launch a core's settings without first loading the core because the core itself contains the informati...

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do you mean, like a boot order? if no disk is inserted, boot from hard-drive? i'm not sure you can do that, but it sounds like your hard drive file is in the startup slot, if you save it to another save config slot, and in the startup slot leave the disk option empty and save it.. then it will boot to the 'hand' insert disk screen where you can f1...

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I've had situations with both the minimig core and the macplus core where I have them setup to boot from a hard drive image. Minimig booting into Workbench 1.3 and macplus booting from the macpack. However, there are times when I want to insert a disk and boot from that instead and I can't work out how to insert a disk before starting the core. Ins...

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Thanks. Sorry been a very very long time since I used a Macintosh at college. Still trying to remember how to use it. I hadn't spotted the readme on the MacPack drive. Edit: Having said that, when I double click on the readme icon on the MacPack drive I get a dialog saying "Sorry, a system error occurred. unimplemented trap" with a bomb ...

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Thanks. Sorry been a very very long time since I used a Macintosh at college. Still trying to remember how to use it. I hadn't spotted the readme on the MacPack drive. Edit: Having said that, when I double click on the readme icon on the MacPack drive I get a dialog saying "Sorry, a system error occurred. unimplemented trap" with a bomb i...

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I have download the mac pack and copied it to my sd card. The Macplus core starts up fine and boots to the OS (which seems to be system 7.5). I eventually found dark castle on the supplementary disk in the system 6 folder. So I assume this only works with system 6 (it crashes when I ran it). How do I boot into system 6?

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I wanted to look at some games I used to play on my Spectrum 128k. I remember the one I got came bundled with 128k versions of Daley Thompson's Decathlon and The Neverending Story so I thought I would start with them. I've just tried The Neverending Story 128k on the Spectrum core and the keyboard input is really slow. In order for all key presses...

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Armakuni wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:48 am
Has anyone had an issue trying to run 7th Guest ?

It starts to run but always stops with a critical error has occurred

Same here.

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MiSTerTea wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:40 pm
Fuzzball wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:38 pm
How do game saves work? Are they in each individual VHD? What if I wanted to backup the game saves of all installed games?

Save game files are stored on each individual VHD

That is a shame and, for me personally, is a rather big disadvantage. I would want to periodically backup all saves rather than doing it individually.

Fuzzball

It's not an exact step-by-step explaining every tiny bit of the process, but it should be enough to get you started: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=84617#p84617 The main things you might have to figure out are how to mount VHDs in Windows ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/manage-virtual-hard-disks#a...

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Is there a "dummies guide" for adding other titles? I was all for setting up my own DOS collection but it's turned out to be more work than I had envisaged so thought I would try 0mhz instead. It's just missing a few titles I would like to include.

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