MiSTer FPGA Forum

Thanks for this RealLarry, currently have Bad Apple roaring out, which I am sure the neighbours love too.

Just noticed (which is an indicator of how observant I am) that the time is wrong on my MiSTer, it's out by an hour, presumably since we switched to BST here in the Uk a few weeks back.

Now it is ZERO of an issue really but it's annoying me, can I alter it? Never noticed an option in my years of having it?

Though to be fair it's crashing for me

In the options it's under Module, close enough, I found it because of the above

I might be a bit of an idiot. Had it all the wrong way round - ha late night. Just a few more tweaks and hopefully sorted it....

Actually, although it's quite tricky to tell from the pics. In terms of your 7 pin socket on pic 1, which pin are you adding the voltage to?

No, I can't get the external disk light to work. I tried with the Amstrad core loading via a .dsk rom and the middle light on the IO board flashes a few times but the external one does not. I even tried it wired up direct to rule out my PCB. Need to revisit it today. Be great to hear how yours works out.

I may be an idiot.... it seems to just pulse in Menu... loaded a core and it's now a solid light.

So, this has been an ongoing project for a while but finally had time this weekend to do some work on it. I 3D printed a wedge case for my MiSTer, spraypainted it, and altered the design of the files I got online so I could incorporate panel-mounted buttons and LEDs. Then I got carried away and designed my first ever circuit board for the LEDs - no...

What a game. Loved it, classic 1980 Atari if you haven't seen it. Would kill for a core! Can't image there are many boards left lying around though

I had FB Terminal and Direct Vid on and they worked. Turn them off and they don't obviously. Certainly the Terminal.

Works fine on my CRT, pdf's too small to read like but they load okay.

CeeDeeVee wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 10:36 pm runs fine from 'update_all' for me, must have fixed that issue?

Maybe, this is what he said at launch though...
"This week's RBF is only available attached to this post or in Discord. update_all will not get the new RBF due to some unexpected last-minute complications."

Wow, what a pleasant surprise from JT today. Spent too long (and too much) on this and Trak & Field in my youth.

It's Patreon only at this stage and not available through update_all yet due to "an issue" but having it running fine at this end!

Quick question as the CPC was the first computer I was ever online with (Prestel. Micronet 800) in the 80s. Is it possible to use the Amstrad core to 'dial' BBSs like you can with the ST and Amiga cores? Any help greatly appreciated...

Ah Kitrinx. Legend as ever.

Yeah for the reasons described by espo83 above. It just tends to make the solder go where you'd ideally like it to go

Yeah I actually meant with the iron rather than a heat gun. I only have a cheap heat gun and never truly trust the temps.. I'd be inclined to douse it in flux and flick the iron over it if you can get at it. It's prob failing from cracked joints from stress, bound to be a mechanical problem I'd bet. If you do go the wire soldering route, take some ...

You can do it! Soldering is the solution to everything. If you are unsure about soldering surface mount check out GadgetUK on youtube. he has tons of soldering repairs. Flux is your friend for sure. Go slow, it's good you are using a decent iron as opposed to charging in with a 12 quid job from ebay. If your eyes are going like mine, spend about 15...

Also worth pointing out, in case you haven't realised, Mister only runs relatively few arcade cores - 'Mame' is probably a bit confusing in that respect - Mister does not run the mame collection, if that makes sense? I'm not sure it does, just woken up!

Yeah I built a Daemonbite adapter and use an original Competition Pro or Zipstik with my Mister for CPC / Amiga type stuff. Easy to do and worth so much in terms of getting that original feel back.

Ah, keep the Amstrad if you can. You will regret selling it one day. I have a 464 and a 6128 and they are going nowhere. I also use my mister on a Panasonic 14" for Amstrad and others and it looks great. It's actually sat on top of an Amstrad colour monitor and they look identical when on.

Can't get a pic to show unfortunately

Sorted. Switched fb_terminal=1 and it works via HDMI now.

Yeah just on a CRT but I'll check via HDMI in the morning. Wonder if it's to do with fb_terminal=0 - will have a play around.

I think I might be losing my mind here. In the past I have got to Linux with F9, I am sure I have, but now F9 does nothing whatsover? What am I doing wrong? Do I need to have something enabled I may have turned off in some ini or other over the past two years?

Yeah this ^^ I find this thread useful for things that are working to try out next.

All done manually and works a treat with multitrack games. Loving the hard work.

Yeah I have v.4 as well.

What files are in your neogeo.zip? Is it just?

uni-bios.rom
000-lo.lo
sfix.sfix

Or do you have more?

Still the cross hatch on the Aggressors rom... what files are in your neogeo.zip? The getter does download a huge one with lots of different unibios versions but I am using my own at the moment

I get the cross hatch even if I try loading a game that doesn't exist now, so I kinda think my bios/roms are working.