MiSTer FPGA Forum

Try lowering the voltage to the fan before changing it. Any fan, including Noctua, makes noise at high RPM.

lroby74 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:58 am I have glitches on Shadow of the Beast on MegaAgs on Mister, but not on Mist and other FPGAs and not on real A1200 neither

The glitches in Shadow of the Beast come and go, it seems. It used to work without flaws.

I don’t think access to the shared folder and/or vadjust.dat is the issue here actually. There are failsafes in place to handle that (or at least, that’s the idea :) ). Still, it’s a puzzling error. Not being able to “open screen” (that is, initialize a screen mode and allocate memory) is something I’ve not encountered reports on before. Having inc...

The default path for the “transfer” directory is games/Amiga/shared.

But the simplest option is probably copying the files to an ADF image using an emulator.

neogeo81 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:47 pmBut this is a given. if you use the MegaAGS pack you get a shared folder also which you place in games/Amiga/

I know ( ), but I wouldn’t count on every “MegaAGS installation” to have followed the readme.

The “dynamic crop” feature relies on the MiSTer shared folder to be activated. By default this happens automatically if you have a directory called “shared” in games/Amiga. There is an ini option to set this to something else, and if so just make sure that the directory you set exists on the filesystem. Also, using USB or network share may throw in...

It’s worth noting that the “Sync 480i for HDMI” setting needs to be turned OFF to have interlaced video being correctly output over an analog connection.

The readme assumes you have a 1080p screen and makes it sound like these settings are 100% correct for everyone: "Again, make sure to add the Minimig core overrides in MiSTer.ini as specified in the previous section to enjoy the best HDMI output possible, and make sure you have set MiSTer to output in 1080p resolution." I guess we should...

MegaAGS generally requires 68020 and AGA. Some things may work with 68000, but it’s not a supported configuration. If you want 68000, use ADFs and Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3. (2.0 will work too, but breaks many games). Use the included configuration for MegaAGS. That's what I did, but then I changed to 68000 on the fly, right before loading a game from ...

limi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:07 am

Bren McGuire wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:53 am [IPF format] Is there a chance that it could support it in the future?

Yes, I believe so. But someone would have to put in the work, of course.

Ideally “someone” would have to open source the format first. Software Preservation Society who invented/governs the format is pretty much as Amiga (in the anti OSS notion) as it gets.

I fooled around a bit with making a MegaAGS variant for 68000/OCS, but it proved too slow and limited to be worthwhile. So the choice is between the speed and convenience of MegaAGS (or other way of launching WHDL installs on a 68020/AGA setup) and the compatibility and complete library you get with 68000/OCS and ADFs. Luckily it’s very easy to swi...

Another point is that the Mister default shared filesystem is unavailable, and it's possible that device driver might throw errors. It seemed to work okay in WinUAE, the shared dir just wasn't there, but I have no idea about real hardware. Another thought I had while messing around was that WinUAE does its shared directory support by providing a d...

Some feedback on running the image on a real CD32 + TF330. The image gets to the shell and the startup sequence seems to fall over. I can "loadwb" but if I try to run anything, It asks me to point the Assigns out for WHD, MegaAGS etc. I figured these out from looking at the existing startup-sequence and got things running but I have to d...

Did some tests and unfortunately WHDLoad crashes when execbase->attnflags is set to anything higher than the actual CPU. Contacting the slave author (or anyone else who might be up to the task) about patching away the CPU type restriction on maximum map size is the better way to accomplish this...

Now I need to know... I'll whip up a tool that patches exec.library and see what The Settlers thinks of it.

Hmm. It sounds like the minimig core doesn’t transparently use the SMB share if available. Maybe the config stores full absolute paths? I’ve never used SMB with MiSTer so I couldn’t say, but it sounds like something worth looking into.

Lloyd2084 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:15 am Is there a guide on how to setup the mister to use this image?

"MegaAGS-ReadMe.txt" should be included in the distribution and it hopefully covers your questions. If you don't have the file, it's also available in the github repo.

MiSTer SAM does now support MegaAGS by using the "I'm feeling lucky" mode. https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM Would somebody care to try? Is there a way to know which game is playing from command line? Cool! We could have the launcher write info about the currently playing title to the shared folder. Also, curious to know how you ...

The first PS2 games were crap and even friends who made the night in Tokyo in front of the store to buy one at launch used it at first as a DVD player, as the games were just shit. Nah, Ridge Racer V is still one of my favorite games ever, and TTT holds up really well too (although the heavily improved NTSC/UC version is the one to play of course).

MegaAGS should include the latest WHDL installs, but it’s worth to double check this one perhaps.

But it’s quite likely that the timing fixes merely makes sure that the game polls at the original frequency regardless of hardware setup. So fixing this would require work on the mouse input parts of Minimig.

Thanks for the response. I only had a quick test last night after the update. What I noticed was the workbench resolution and colour was changed so made the WHDload screens look odd and the image had borders on all sides in game. Of course the workbench issue was solved by adjusting the screen settings I have a backup I made end of last week befor...

Has the framework update to Minimig released yesterday affected the 5x scaling ? It doesn't seem to work anymore I can see how this new feature interferes with the kind of backdoor way Minimig is able to change video settings at runtime (or was, but I haven’t updated to check yet). Update: I just updated everything to latest and the “dynamic scali...

Many thanks! That would great, I don't know if it is possible but when the Startup-Sequence could react when no MiSTer Share is available it could work seamless on other FPGA systems (or even the A500 Mini? Don't know if it supports HDF files). Currently I fake the "MiSTer:" shared folder when running on other hosts by having a separate ...

Insert Disk Two wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 9:01 am Is there a way to make AGS remember settings? I would prefer Force 50hz to be default rather than Force 60hz.

Thanks and well done for the awesome job!!!

Neither is default.

Check the Aladin WHDLoad folder first for games to add… 😎😎 There's lots of neat stuff there, and I've added things from it I consider notable but that don't have bespoke WHDL adaptions. For example the missing games in Bill Williams' gameography. However, I don't think we'll add the whole thing in bulk since there's a much higher risk of incompati...

Haha, I can imagine that, I often got rusty at things way faster than I expected. I've heard people rave about Amiga E before, sad that it didn't really seem to catch on. It seemed to have a rather active userbase, but for a rather Amiga specific programming language to break out of its niche in the mid-90s would be a big ask. Anyway, if anyone wa...

The problem is that the option to force pal is not permanent, when restarting the core everything looks bad again. We cannot persist this setting, as you would be able to get into a state where you wouldn’t be able to switch it back to NTSC. If you are using the image with US CRTs that usually don’t support PAL, you would be in trouble. It has to ...

Only question I have is: Is SimAnt (non low res version) known to not work? (or am I doing something wrong?) Thank you and I look forward to future versions as time permits! Indeed that one had an issue with the configuration too. I only use the lo-res versions of the Maxis games personally, but the hi-res versions was added by request semi-recent...

Hi, Again, not sure if I am doing anything wrong but I noticed that on "All New World of Lemmings" The bottom of the screen seems to be cut off when playing a level. (seems like the screen is shifted down since there is black space on the top of the screen) It doesnt seem to do this in the main menu of the game only after you start a lev...

I did some more testing... Sensible World of Soccer = bad scanlines* Saint Dragon = good scanlines (I can see game actually cropping) Woodys World x5 Pal60 = good scanlines (but game is too fast like this) Woodys World forced 50hz = bad scanlines Hope this helps! *With Bad Scanlines I mean non properly distributed scanlines when using Video Proces...