MiSTer FPGA Forum

I can understand wanting to wait for someone to fix the analog sound the right way. The closer you get something to "good enough" the longer it's likely to stay that way as there's less motivation to correct it.

The last time I even saw someone try was two years ago and in that time the price of the DE-10 Nano has gone up 100% and a lot of new FPGA hardware has come into the market. It's worth investigating what's possible.

Hardware has a life cycle too, normally somewhere around 7-10 years and the DE-10 Nano turned 5 last summer.

I doubt there's any subsidies beyond the education one. If you get prices quoted for the SOC used in the DE-10 nano in 10,000+ quantities in the Asian market it is much, much cheaper than small quantities in the North American market.

I'm unaware of any other device that handles I/O as well as MiSTer. There's all sorts of potential for reusing that in other projects.

Armakuni wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 1:59 pm

Is this really a viable solution ? The D1 is just a cheap RiscV based board too

Why not just fork the cores to the board he's using with the Cyclone, the Linux side is not needed.

The framework is the amazing part of MiSTer.

Prometheus wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:18 am

PS2, Dreamcast, and maybe GC.

It most certainly cannot.

The custom cores are the way to go. No external solution will come close for composite.

Yeah, it seems like there's too many bottlenecks for hybrid emulation to really be useful.

It felt like magic and having to eventually move to a Pentium/Windows was so painful.

Hodor wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 10:32 am

Toni Willem himself has said several times that a cycle-exact/cycle-accurate 68020 can´t be done with nowadays information available.

Cycle exact is rarely needed, very few of the CPU implementations used in MiSTer have that level of accuracy. We could definitely achieve something far closer than what we have now.

The ARM CPU inside the DE-10 Nano's SOC lacks any sort of video, everything is output through the FPGA with a simple framebuffer using the shared DDR3 memory. This is going to be significantly slower than the fast SVGA cards or the early 3D cards that were used with the DOS version of Tomb Raider.

Probably almost nothing. DOSBox completely ignores F11 and F12 keypresses and does not pass them to applications.

I agree, the only other thing I really want to see is full PC Jr. support at some point but this is more important than that.

Fantastic work!

This is great news and having a working TMS34010 should also eventually lead to Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.

The code that is incorporated into every MiSTer core cannot be GPL'd because it's not software and the GPL is a software license. The code that can be GPL'd is on the Linux side.

You don't need any permissions to hook into a framework.

The European bias is probably somewhat true, after all we have a perfectly working ZX Spectrum core and that was Europe's Apple II.