MiSTer FPGA Forum

Well, no matter what, IPF is not open source, so it's probably not something the overall project would accept. Someone would need to reverse engineer the format and release the code under an open source license. Supporting it is possible to do open source. This was already covered. There are solutions for supporting IPF without using that third pa...

Also IPF is more plug and play. Relying on AGS you have to download a whole collection, you might just be looking to play one specific game. You might also even have made your own backup of your own original floppies. I have done this with both by C64 and Amiga. And as I mentioned earlier, there will always be games that does not work fully with WH...

Do any games still not run at this point? It seems to be fantastically compatible in my tests now. I am very surprised that Robert can keep finding things to fix. Even now its pretty much daily that he adds new updates to this core, often fixing very specific things or optimizing something to use maybe just a few CPU cycles less to make it faster,...

Now that there is the PCXT core, this might become relevant for that core as well :) It just got better floppy support but still lacks mouse support. Progress has been made towards that as well though. Could you share your tools? I might be able to help at some point creating VHDs. I do have a large collection of DOS games and am familiar with scri...

Sadly WHDLoad does not work for all games though. Probably never will. Not when they still have not fixed the issues with them at this point. My main example is the Gold Box games. If you actually try to play them, you will find that they can take a very long time to save the game and what makes it very problematic is that sometimes they never fini...

Also it would be an important step towards supporting a real floppy drive. That won't be possible with the current floppy drive implementation on this core. How would including IPF support improve upon that? The 'magic' is in the IPF library, not the caller. I don't see how it would actually change much if anything at all that would aid in impleme...

Also it would be an important step towards supporting a real floppy drive. That won't be possible with the current floppy drive implementation on this core.

I also made a Windows version of the Python scripts for creating the ROMs for this core: http://dionysus.dk/devstuff/mister/PCXT/ And there is a boot floppy for the PCXT core as well, one that is 4 different boot settings. One that uses 4DOS with EMS memory and a 1MB RAM Drive two with another DOS extender, and one that is "clean" that do...

breiztiger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:41 pm Here isn’t already pcxt specific ?

It is now

https://github.com/Tom1975/CPCCore/blob/master/CPCCoreEmu/CAPSFile.cpp CPCCoreEmu seems to be MIT licensed, so that's compatible with GPL. Yeah, I cannot see this using a library anywhere, and its not just some API getting data from the IPF file, it goes through all the bytes and decodes them. With this being a thing though, I wonder if the Amiber...

Whether it needs a DLL or not does not seem that important? IPF files will be going through the Linux side anyway, and the MiSTer Linux system must be able to use the SPS library if its needed. Its not that the core itself needs to support IPF files inherently. Generally images of any kind are handled by MiSTer Main. But as long as the core itself ...

Any news about a PCXT specific forum?

One of the likely challenges for getting IPF support is the closed-source nature of the solution that the SPS group provides. To date, no reverse-engineered implementation (of the reader code) has been created for any platform. What do you mean? AmiBerry is open source and it implements IPF support. So it must be documented how to read the IPF for...

Ahh, that is good to know. Was probably my scripts and I have been wondering if maybe I had done something wrong when creating the ROMs, but I was thinking it would be strange if the problem was something like this rather than just not working at all. Because the way the ROMs are put together is just putting one file after another. If its the wrong...

I have been hoping to see this get supportted for a long time now and have asked Sorgelig about it. I have also been asking for support for real floppy drive support. Sorg does argue that it would make more sense to support IPF and such than it does to support real floppy drives, and I agree. But for either to be possible, there would first need to...

Ahh, interesting. I had not really considered it might have been how the original hardware was meant to work that Tandy 1000 had those lines.

Then it seems the core must already be more than 90% complete?

I will try to run some more things in 86Box. I do not think I setup a Tandy 1000 machine on it yet. I will try to use that to debug Time Bandit.

I testet all the Freescape games I could find... and all of them work. So I tried a different copy of Castle Master and it then runs fine as well, both CGA and Tandy :) Awesome. I have copied games around without any read or write errors. Also tried using a 1MB RAM disk to copy games to to help test if there might be problems caused by disk speed. ...

The wrapper is there by default anyway. But I did suspect it could be done without the wrapper.

Gunnar is not the one calling the V4 a Vampire, the word "vampire" was rarely, if ever, used in any official advertising. http://www.apollo-computer.com/v4standalone.php V is not for “Vampire”, it is more “version”. http://www.apollo-core.com/v4.html "The incredible Vampire standalone. I was honestly blown away by that product."...

A game I have been having trouble with is Castle Master on the PCXT core. I have tried with several different settings. Without EMS or high memory, with EMS and high memory, with PCXT, with Tandy 1000, with Tandy graphics and with CGA graphics. But Castle Master always freezes on the first screen. I tried using Putty to remove into the MiSTer, kill...

Any news on the progress of this core?

I was looking over this yesterday. I have not tried it yet. I was wondering how it would connect a CD drive to the Turbo Chameleon 64 that this core was developed for. But I had not considered that the TC64 Minimig core had not gotten any kind of CD support yet, so this is digital CD image support I think, with CDDA support. Since the release there...

The final scenes in Area5150 needs a CRT? I am using a CRT but its probably not set to do a native output, I think it scales. I guess that might be why it does not run until the end. Or at least that the last minute or two is pretty corrupted. Do you have borders enabled from the OSD menu? This is important for this demo in particular. I tried add...

The final scenes in Area5150 needs a CRT? I am using a CRT but its probably not set to do a native output, I think it scales. I guess that might be why it does not run until the end. Or at least that the last minute or two is pretty corrupted.

Hello everyone, Maybe this has already been mentioned, if so, sorry for asking twice (I've however found nothing related to this topic). Well, I've a strange keyboard behavior when I use the DOS command keyb fr to change the keyboard layout to French for instance. The keyboard works fine by default (US map) but if I want to change it, in my case b...

I updated my PCXT boot floppy. Now it has boot options, so it can boot a clean config with nothing loaded at all, a config using SHELLMAX with no EMS, one with EMS and a 4DOS with EMS. Both EMS configs have a 1024kb RAM DISK set as drive D. If something might have disk speed problems, I suspect it might be solved with the RAM disk, until support fo...

Xbytez is also an admin; maybe you can PM him about a PCXT dedicated section. Alternatively, the "ao486 (PC 486SX)" section could be renamed "PC (ao486 / PCXT)" or something so that both computers are under a common section, but I'm not sure that would work well. I thought about that as well... but I think it would be too confu...

[...] Btw, how do you use serdrive? It does not seem to accept the command in Putty. I am trying to create disk images for the PCXT core. Just use PCEm or 86Box emulators. They both work perfectly fine creating hard disk images for this wonderful core. That is what I have been doing. I guess I do not really have problems with read and write errors...

It might be early for this core still, but should it not get its own forum at this point? It is an official core after all. It has certainly reached such a point that it would be good to have a specific section. I don't know who could create it, maybe sorgelig? I just asked on Discord in the Computer Core Testing Channel. I will get back with the ...

It has annoyed me for a long time how Midnight Commander does not by default just exist to the directory you just moved to. That is often why I use Norton Commander clones of some kind, to browse directories fast and then obviously to also help do filemanagement overall. But browsing to the folder I want to run commands in, quit Midnight Commander ...