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jca

Outrun is in beta. You must have enabled the download of Jotego Betas in update all script and you are not one of his patrons.
What you see is normal.

jca

Using the DarkSoft romset is not a big deal, you also have one file per game. I have a few .neo roms for recent homebrew games but I find the .neo format is a pain in the neck regarding game naming. If you rename the neo file to the real name of the game MISTer recognizes it as a neo file and instead displays the name which is in the file and is no...

jca

.Neo ROMs are not required.

jca

jotego @topapate We’ll have spinner support for JT cores next Friday on #MiSTerFPGA jotego @topapate Then I connected the spinners following the information that MAME developers extracted from the game software. The JTCPS2 core supports spinner control now on the MiSTer for Puzzle Loop 2 and Eco Fighters. Homework done! jotego @topapate On FPGA, i...

jca

You are right about that, the price list was the first I found.
By the end of 1986, it had the largest worldwide share of the engineering workstations market, at twice the market share of the number two, Sun Microsystems. At the end of 1987, it was third in market share after Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun.

jca

The Original Mac was just an expensive paper weight when it came out: one floppy, 128K, Mac Write and Mac Draw. I went to a PR demo when it was introduced and I was not impressed. For the GUI I already saw the Lisa and the Apollo workstation but these were expensive: Apollo base model July 88 price; Monochrome configurations with a disk range from ...

jca

When using Micro-88 BIOS the system boots only if the primary card is CGA. If Hercules is enabled it is possible to switch back and forth between CGA and Hercules. While typing this post I got an idea: CGA enabled, Hercules enabled and Primary Hercules. The system boots, the primary card is Hercules and shows just a blinking cursor but pressing F11...

jca

That's a good question.

jca

But there is an IBM BIOS which supports the IBM Enhanced Keyboard.
viewtopic.php?t=5869

jca

... So a band of 16 pixels wide disappeared from the left side of the pic and only the 10 leftmost pixels of this band reappeared on the right side of the pic offset upwards by 4 pixels .... I said to myself that I was giving up to understand what could be the problem but this thing is still spinning in my head and realize that the above sentence ...

jca

I tried to make some measurements to see if it could help but had to cut it short before going insane. The first test was this vertical band which should have been on the left of the screen but appears on the right (see attached pic). This band is offset vertically by 4 pixels which is a strange number but at least is a power of 2. The width of the...

jca

As promised here is the snapshot with AutoCAD cross-hair problem. Note the following: The vertical part of the cross-hair is always a dotted line and leaves a lot of remnants on the screen when the mouse is moved. The horizontal part of the cross-hair shows as a continuous line as it should. When the mouse is moved it leaves some remnants on the sc...

jca

seastalker wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:52 pm
I am happy to wait for an eventual Pac Man Jr core,...

In Alternative there are 4 of them: Pacman Jr. (Maze 1) - HBMame.mra. With 4 different mazes. These are HB roms so it may not be what you are looking for.

jca

I did not realize that a new version of the core was released, I will have to try it. Hercules was a long time ago and I thought that the card had its own BIOS, reading the post announcing the new version it states it did not. The main reason is that the card was fully compatible with MDA in text mode and setting up the card to graphics was up to t...

jca

I always thought of Hercules graphics as being pretty simple. ... Yes it was pretty simple, it is basically a hacked MDA card. In text mode it uses the same chips in the same configuration which made it a great card: fully compatible with MDA. I graphic mode the video chip is reprogrammed for 720x348, the character generator is not used and the gr...

jca

I just ran the update all script to see if the Spinner support in CPS2 was already released by Jotego. It is not, may be on JT Friday?
I noticed a new Arcade: Performan. This core is based on the Slapfight core.

jca

jotego @topapate Then I connected the spinners following the information that MAME developers extracted from the game software. The JTCPS2 core supports spinner control now on the MiSTer for Puzzle Loop 2 and Eco Fighters. Homework done! jotego @topapate On FPGA, in order to provide that spinner-enable signal to the game, I have added a DIP switch ...

jca

You may have trouble installing the driver. Here is a thread indicating how to proceed.
https://community.intel.com/t5/FPGA-SoC ... m-p/136333

jca

At this time it looks like the fixing of old cores is on the back burner but ...

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#CPS3 core analysis in progress #MiSTerFPGA

jca

mapf wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:12 pm
If a 720x348 pixel image is rendered on a 600x300 plane, information is lost. Scaling back will not recover that information.

I doubt it: pressing WIN + Left Shit + Print Screen produces a snapshot before scaling and the resolution is 720x348.

jca

I checked the 1st screenshot size, made after scaling: it is 1440x1080. It seems odd: 1440 is 720x2 but 1080 is not 384x2. On the other hand it is closer to what it should be. I guess the saler does a very good job and the snapshot before scaling looks odd due to non square pixels.

jca

The problem is not with the scaler. Attached a screenshot before scaling: size 720x348.
I have the bar on the right side and the text is sort of illegible.

jca

Thanks, there is a big improvement: a shuttle looking like a shuttle.
There is still something not quite right and I think this 600x300 resolution is wrong, it does not exist. There has to be some kind of bug in the Hercules code.

jca

See viewtopic.php?p=67762#p67762

jca

You do not need a USB Blaster as there is an on board USB Blaster, you just need a USB cable.
See Pic.

jca

The Hercules card is a MDA card with a graphic mode so there is no need to keep MDA.

jca

I suppose SimCGA was developed for PC owners having only the Hercules card and wanting to play games. With PCXT we have CGA emulation so there is no obstacle playing such games. But using SimCGA would test the implementation of Hercules, in your case it is not working at this time. On my side I tested AutoCAD without much success: the attached scre...

jca

From AtariST Readme: Cycle accurate FX68K CPU core I was only commenting about Minimig core which uses a different CPU module . TG-68K holds back the Minimig core speed too This thread is somewhat messy as it is about IPF but in the Atari ST thread and there are mentions of both Atari ST and Minimig. That said, and if I am not mistaken, Minimig us...

jca

From AtariST Readme:
Cycle accurate FX68K CPU core

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