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by RealLarry
Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

A new update!

This is the Easter Egg version, dedicated to our official sponsor @MiSTer Consoles, who bombarded me with many ideas and bugfixes for the last few days! Many thanks to him for the input! All of this leads to a much better experience.

To find all eggs, you'll have to take at look at the changelog for yourself.

by RealLarry
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:12 pm
Forum: Other Computer / System Cores
Topic: Goonies on Atari 800 Core?
Replies: 4
Views: 586

Re: Goonies on Atari 800 Core?

damanloox wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:12 am

Hi,

Has anybody tried running The Goonies on Atari800 core? I've two images (atx and atr) but none works.. Atx loads garbled screen, atr asks for Game A (it's cracked version apparently), loads for a while and freezes...
Any ideas?

Please try and report if one of attached cartridge version works...

by RealLarry
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: Newcomers Forum
Topic: Want to get started with MiSTer for C64 and retro arcade, have some Qs
Replies: 13
Views: 1075

Re: Want to get started with MiSTer for C64 and retro arcade, have some Qs

Stinky wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:38 am

I've had a keyrah for years, not sure if they're still made but it sure is cool.

Looks like they're still available...

by RealLarry
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: Sellers
Topic: antoniovillena.es
Replies: 96
Views: 105005

Re: antoniovillena.es

mong00se wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:27 pm

Hi Antonio,
You recently posted me a tty2oled to the UK. It works great. Thanks a million. Top work.

Worth to mention that Antonio only (re-) build a piece of hardware for many users, but all the entire work is based on @venice and his team.
viewtopic.php?t=1887

by RealLarry
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Thank you, it works now. I previously installed the lite version but during start i got an error about missing xserver. So i thought i need the desktop version. Silly me. With your help i found my error. With the lite install the update failed and xserver wasn't installed. I missed that. Today i read your posts and installed the lite again and i n...
by RealLarry
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:00 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I have an issue installing the Raspberry Pi part. I have a Raspberry Pi 4b. Downloaded the Legacy 32bit desktop version. Tested on my RPi400 and it is the culprit. But we aren't using Windows :D so no hope is lost. A quick hack would be: SSH to your RPi and set VIDEOPLAYER="mpv" in ~/ty2rpi-user.ini , then execute mkdir ~/.config/autosta...
by RealLarry
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:56 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I have an issue installing the Raspberry Pi part. I have a Raspberry Pi 4b. Downloaded the Legacy 32bit desktop version. And that is the culprit. tty2rpi is designed to run onto a dedicated RPi (or SD card) , not within an installed desktop (but would be doable). I'll try to reproduce that with my RPi400 some time. In your case the start of the de...
by RealLarry
Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:07 am
Forum: Atari ST / STe
Topic: Old-school music production with MT-32pi and Cubase
Replies: 21
Views: 4265

Re: Old-school music production with MT-32pi and Cubase

virtuali wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:32 pm
danielb wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:43 pm

Yes, it's version 3.01. I couldn't afford it back in the day.

As an interesting fact, Mister is (AFAIK), the only place where you can use the original, uncracked (and not-crashing) Cubase 3.01, without a dongle, because it's emulated in the core!

No, it is the second place. First was on the MiST a day before or two.

by RealLarry
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:51 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I get mixed results with the splash screen on both devices. Sometime it is displayed in between bootup messages, although very briefly. Other times it does not show up at all. Could you please edit /boot/cmdline.txt (resp. /boot/firmware/config.txt), change loglevel=1 to loglevel=0 and retry? I did this with my 3A+ (which has this quirks since yes...
by RealLarry
Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:42 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I get mixed results with the splash screen on both devices. Sometime it is displayed in between bootup messages, although very briefly. Other times it does not show up at all. Could you please edit /boot/cmdline.txt (resp. /boot/firmware/config.txt), change loglevel=1 to loglevel=0 and retry? I did this with my 3A+ (which has this quirks since yes...
by RealLarry
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:16 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I wouldn't expect a serial<->USB connection to help with the boot performance. It would just give an alternative to using WiFi for communication to avoid poor signal issues and to give users who don't have their setups connected to the internet another option for using tty2rpi. Do you think a hardwired connection might actually be faster to commun...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Very much appreciated. :D It does seem that the RPi has a lot of stuff to do when it boots. If a "hibernate" function isn't possible I wonder if there is some way to modify RPi OS to only do certain tasks necessary for tty2rpi at bootup in order to at least make the process faster? I did a quick Google search and stumbled on this article...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Do you boot your Pi every time you boot your MiSTer or does it stay on constantly and only get rebooted periodically? I was wondering if there might be a way to keep the Pi on constantly and just sleep the display when MiSTer powers off to save electricity. This would skip the booting process and have the display ready to go when MiSTer is powered...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

It's interesting that you are having some issues with the splash screen today. The function has not been consistent with either of my Pis. Sometimes it shows up for some seconds. Other times it just flashes briefly. And most of the time it does not show up at all. I'll have an eye on this. Strange...is working great for some days on both displays,...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:35 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Any idea about the screen flashing blue during boot by chance? Not really. My HDMI Marquee display is turning to black and while the splash screen was working there for some days, today it is showing the splash screen for a glimpse, is turning to black and the display re-detect "HDMI". Dunno whats going on and if it's the RPi or the disp...
by RealLarry
Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I made the configurations you suggested in the cmdline.txt file and I'm still not getting the splash screen to show up. I do see a brief darkening of the display as the Pi is booting up. Is it possible the 3B+ and Zero 2 W boot fast enough that there is no time for the graphic to appear? They both are fast enough. I'm using a 3A+ with a Marquee si...
by RealLarry
Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I updated both my RPi 3B+ and my Pi Zero 2 W this morning. I get mixed results with the splash screen on both devices. Sometime it is displayed in between bootup messages, although very briefly. Other times it does not show up at all. And in some cases the tty2rpi-startup.png file ends up getting corrupted and has 0 bytes. Is this something differ...
by RealLarry
Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Another small update Changelog: Splash screen on boot - see /etc/systemd/system/splashscreen.service for details. Tested with HDMI and DPI displays To get the splash screen running fine w/o any interruption of messages, edit /boot/cmdline.txt (resp. /boot/firmware/config.txt) and add the following to the line logo.nologo consoleblank=0 loglevel=1 ...
by RealLarry
Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Hey I ran the update script this morning and as expected it overwrote the images in the tty2rpi-pics directory. I had placed some custom graphics there (000-notavail.png and tty2rpi.png) because the new directory I created for these files ( tty2rpi-mypics ) does not get looked at by the program even though I have the line TTY2RPIPICS="${HOME}...
by RealLarry
Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:51 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Hey I ran the update script this morning and as expected it overwrote the images in the tty2rpi-pics directory. I had placed some custom graphics there (000-notavail.png and tty2rpi.png) because the new directory I created for these files ( tty2rpi-mypics ) does not get looked at by the program even though I have the line TTY2RPIPICS="${HOME}...
by RealLarry
Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:32 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Sounds like an HDMI display is the most ideal for this project. I will have to keep exploring other options that I might be able to use in my boxes. Perhaps I can increase the height of the box to accommodate for the port + adapter to connect the display to the Pi. It depends imho. HDMI has the advantage that it "just works", DPI and DSI...
by RealLarry
Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:36 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Small update Changelog: Search for filenames with at least three caracters, not two. This speeds up searching and lowers the risk of misinterpretation The INI variable KEEPASPECTRATIO is now undefined per default. The picture viewers feh/fim are now auto scaling a picture to screen's size. This speeds up displaying a picture a lot ! Setting KEEPAS...
by RealLarry
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:52 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Are there displays that connect via the GPIO pins that don't use the framebuffer? I have some space constraints in my cases that make it challenging to use the HDMI port on most displays. Not I'm aware off. Use a DPI or DSI display if HDMI isn't an option. They are assembled in the same way (plug'n'play). It looks like the DPI displays connect to ...
by RealLarry
Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

MiSTer Consoles wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:53 pm

Are there displays that connect via the GPIO pins that don't use the framebuffer? I have some space constraints in my cases that make it challenging to use the HDMI port on most displays.

Not I'm aware off. Use a DPI or DSI display if HDMI isn't an option. They are assembled in the same way (plug'n'play).

by RealLarry
Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:28 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Thanks for looking into this. Hopefully there is a way to get it to work. I've got plenty of time to return it to Amazon if it isn't compatible. However, I ordered a similar non-touch display off AliExpress that I'll be stuck with either way. LOL! I don't need or really want the touch function. I just want the display to show the core/game artwork...
by RealLarry
Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:07 am
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Thanks for looking into this. Hopefully there is a way to get it to work. I've got plenty of time to return it to Amazon if it isn't compatible. However, I ordered a similar non-touch display off AliExpress that I'll be stuck with either way. LOL! I don't need or really want the touch function. I just want the display to show the core/game artwork...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I'm still investigating but had no luck 'til now. This is what my "found" display is looking like. Not exact the same but I'm sure that is technically the same . yours.jpg And that seems to be the pity. Seems like these very cheap ones are using a XPT2046 and MPI3501 controller they warn against using them (have a look at the chapter belo...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:10 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Am I missing anything here? Hmm...no, everything is looking correct. You could enable max_framebuffers=2 again; don't know for what case it is or not. I have it still enabled for all displays. It is also correct that the screen turns black while booting. This indicates to me that the waveshare35a driver is loaded and initialized the display. Every...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

I think I'm getting close. The last step I need to do according to config.txt.example is to "Enable fbcp-ili9341 in /home/tty2rpi/.bash_profile". I found the file in MC and went to edit it. There is only one line that is commented out. Do I just need to remove the hashtag on that line or is there something else that needs to be done? By ...
by RealLarry
Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: Hardware Setups
Topic: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)
Replies: 118
Views: 26314

Re: tty2rpi Add-On (shows core based pictures and videos on a HDMI or DSI display)

Even if it works now/later for your satisfaction, I'd be glad to hear that too :)