MiSTer FPGA Forum

It would be probably easier if you could tell us which games already run on disk. There aren't many floppy disk only based games in D88 image format out there, unless there are better sources i don't know of. We dont even have all of the games dumped for FM Towns. I cant give an accurate list. But you are correct; most games on towns were CD based...

Archive.org has some D88 images. But nothing i could start properly. So... There are a lot of people here that dont understand how this computer works so let me explain something. Software for this computer was released like this: -CD with files containing main game executable -CD with FD required that contained the main game executable -CD with F...

Late to this but puu-san has updated Towns FPGA

-add HDD support and booting into TownsOS from HDD
-CD-ROM not supported

http://fpga8801.seesaa.net/article/493687651.html

Edit: boot into DOS not TownsOS.

FMT Towns EA desktop and Pentium Towns use different FDD than FMT Tower, all-in-one model and also different than HR/HG/SG/MX/MA/ME desktop.

Would you like me to find FDC of the EA and Pentium Towns FDD? Perhaps it has more documentation than FDC from other Towns FDD

Puu-san, I couldn't load FMR software called Fortress. Towns is backwards compatible with FMR. Next I loaded Dinosaur Program disk. Then I was able to successfully load Scenario Disk 1 when the game requested. The colors are very beautiful and vibrant. All the D88 images I used were from my collection (dumped with Pauline or Greaseweazle) and not o...

I have noticed so far there aren't any robust guides on how to convert different floppy disk image formats for MiSTER and also hardware. For example, if you have a Kyroflux, SCP or Pauline format game dump, how do you convert it properly to use it on MiSTER? I know how to do such things but I'm curious if there is any interest in the community for ...

I tried to debug using a compatible BIOS whose source is open to the public, but it seems that the BIOS only considers booting from CD-ROM, so at this stage only FDD is implemented. Debugging in this BIOS seems too early. Please check. https://github.com/captainys/TOWNSROM Thanks for your advice. I analyzed the abnormal part using this Free BIOS a...

puu wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 2:24 am I tried to debug using a compatible BIOS whose source is open to the public, but it seems that the BIOS only considers booting from CD-ROM, so at this stage only FDD is implemented. Debugging in this BIOS seems too early.

Please check.


https://github.com/captainys/TOWNSROM

I tried to debug using a compatible BIOS whose source is open to the public, but it seems that the BIOS only considers booting from CD-ROM, so at this stage only FDD is implemented. Debugging in this BIOS seems too early. Towns had 3 primary FD with different FDC on each. However all 3 mode soft work fine. Do you wish for me to find FDC on my Town...

puu wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:54 pm My X68000 core is updated.
http://fpga8801.seesaa.net/archives/20220713-1.html
FDD image format was changed from .d88 to .xdf .

Thank you.

I appreciate the explaination on your blog and also the keyboard transcoder.

My request was if there is a setting to display 24 kHz on 31 kHz. Let's take this step by step. There are some games for X68000 that have the option to run in 24khz mode on hardware. It isn't *required* for any retail games but rather it's an option. I don't think mister implementation of 68K runs proper to hardware as far as displays. Generally t...

Thank you.

I am curious how you are processing video since Fujitsu, even in the red book, didn't provide very much documentation for video ASICs. I concluded that was the hardest part and I didn't want to do any "guessing".

If you are interested captainys has a free and legal FMT BIOS he is using in Tsugaru emulator that he wrote.

puu wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 12:33 pm Little by little, it started working.

Puu-san,

To clarify, is your development environment DE0 or DE0-CV? Me and captainys both have DE0-CV.

puu wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 12:33 pm Little by little, it started working.

Puu-san,

If you need help testing please let me know.

I own CX20, UX20, TC Marty, HR100, S12, HA53 computers.

I would be happy to help preserve my favorite computer.