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akeley

It's a step forward, but it's not really solving what my original Github request was about - saveable per-game configs. As it is, it can help with some more generic buttons, or if you are only playing one game for a longer period of time with a specific remap. But ideally, it'd be great to be able to configure and save keymaps for different games -...

akeley

I downloaded the pack for the first time yesterday, it's awesome! Thank you very much for compiling this. I noticed one thing with the vhd though, is it normal that it does not include the years 1988 - 1989? When I noticed they were not listed in Norton Commander I exited out and checked the directory of C:/, sure enough they are not listed. Is th...

akeley

I've updated the 1981-1989 MS-DOS "XT era" collection to v1.0 (search archive.org for "play it by year msdos"). This is mainly to bring the Tandy/PCjr directories in line with the much-revised Tandy/PCjr standalone pack. The other big addition is an archive with individual games with LFN filenames, so you can use them in DOSbox ...

akeley

It’s not that complicated (although of course people would run NTSC games like Defender of the Crown incorrectly in PAL at the time since their A500s didn’t have an obvious software-based way to switch into NTSC mode) — US game publishers like EA and Cinemaware are quite obviously made for and in NTSC resolutions and CPU speeds, then there are the...

akeley

Indeed — except for #2 in your examples, that’s a game from a US game publisher (Electronic Arts), and should be run in NTSC. It will then fill the screen :) Sure, but if you were an Amiga kid in the PAL zone back then, that's what you'd most likely see regardless of a game's origins :) The whole PAL vs NTSC thing is a bit of a rabbit hole anyway....

akeley

So yes it all seems to be normal except that in the MiSTer I have this offset upwards. This is actually how it is in PAL on real hardware. And MiSTer displays 1:1 Amiga image over analogue. Most micros had borders but the image was more or less centered, Amiga is an a exception. Examples: 1 2 3 Flight Of The Amazon Queen (Amiga 500)(RGB)(PAL)(Sony...

akeley

My biggest gripe is when people develop and sell products and not tell people the product is not meeting reference standards or show test results as I think every product should be properly tested and run at reference levels, that's just a given and no excuses there. I don't know which products you are referring to, but I'm pretty sure the ones fr...

akeley

It's a nice write up, thanks a lot. I think the "No one should use the AG6200 based DACs however unless you just can’t use anything else and the world depends on you getting a video signal of some kind." is a bit of an overdramatization though. I've been using one for over a year when I first got a MiSTer (with high quality TV sets), just...

akeley

tekn0 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 9:08 pm
Was the Modeline guide ever posted? I can not seem to find it.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_Mi ... TION-GUIDE

The CRT guide itself is in need of updating, but I've been out of the loop for some time and also am away from my CRTs atm so can't test things.

akeley

I've played it on several CRTs before, no problems.

akeley

Try to update your mister.ini, in case you still have old one without "vga_mode=": https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/blob/master/MiSTer.ini That VGA2SCART adapter isn't necessary for Direct Video, only to be able use modelines with DV, so you should get display on most cores anyway. Could be you're really unlucky with both HDMI ...

akeley

Were you able to get MyMenu to work without LFN on the new images? Is there no way for it to show an expanded title for a shorter on-disk folder? That link to the other thread doesn't seem to work for me. Sorry, this is the thread: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=5573&start=30 Tbh I don't remember if I got the MyMenu going in the end - ...

akeley

Hi mate, glad that these games are being kept alive on the OG hardware ;) Still, it sounds like you're using the first, outdated version - the 500GB image (called ISO IMAGE on the archive page)? Because the new one is a 2GB vhd and doesn't have LFN. It covers years 81-89, with short filenames and Norton Commander as "frontend". I'm not su...

akeley

Thanks for the update, I just pulled it down but realized there's no .vhd like there has been previously. Was it forgotten? Odd, the .vhd is definitely there - can be downloaded both individually and in the torrent. The archive page's full name is "Tandy & PCjr - Play It By Year Game Collection v1.0". if you still can't find it, shoo...

akeley

I've released a new update for the Tandy / PCjr collection (search archive.org for "tandy play it by year"). Version 1.0 (released August 2023) -some games added/removed according to the updated list -added fixes for some games -directories reorganised -how-to section added to readme It's been re-tested and reorganised and while still far...

akeley

I've been out of the loop but I thought that @alanswx work from last year - adding disk support and (I think) also save to disk ability (and co-processor to Master later) has been merged into main eventually. It's nice to hear there is alternative, just surprised it hasn't been talked about here - or did I miss it?. It'd be nice if these changes co...

akeley

I've done a lot of comparisons of MiSTer's analogue output vs real hardware on CRTs and in most cases it's 1:1. Meaning that if you get your set adjusted once for general 240p, it should display MiSTer's content fine out of the box, without the need for additional tweaking. Amiga with its horizontal shift is an outlier, but this problem is the same...

akeley

I've tried saving in several text adventure game and they all work fine...so, combined with the other reports, it seems that the disk write problem has been finally put to rest. Many thanks to alanswx/gyurco and whoever else has contributed to solving this conundrum. For me it was the biggest remaining thorn in MiSTer's side, which put a big damper...

akeley

i mean like anybody can say what they want to say that tvs from 30 years ago looked like, awesome everyone's opinions You say that, and yet half of your post is filled with observations based on one shaky Twitter gif 8-) Seeing as it's extremely hard to capture CRT images 100% correctly, perhaps not your eyes but the camera/monitor/colourspace/etc...

akeley

NML's MiSTer 15kHz RGB spreadsheet is made with CRT users in mind, but can serve your purpose too, at least partially.

akeley

Hi hitm4n, trying to answer some of your questions: -the vhd hdd images are just simple containers with no OS (and so no frontends or fancy scripts), so they need to be used with another OS-containing vhd (for copyright/distribution reasons...as you know, in the topsy-turvy cutthroat world of modern Amiga you will get in hot water much easier for a...

akeley

I love the DS4 design overall but have had major problems with its USB port - it's atrocious. I had to get rid of an otherwise perfectly working one because it wouldn't even charge anymore, and then the next one I bought also started having problems. It still charges, but just about, and wired gaming is out of question. Another problem is that it w...

akeley

V1.0 is up now on archive. org (search for "amiga"+"akeley" or "play it by year"). V1.0 adds the "unknown" year 19xx from HoL, and the collection now should - in theory - represent a complete Hall Of Light database mirror for years 1985-1995 (sans compilations, duplicates, language versions, etc), plus some e...

akeley

You can find clues on how to find ready-made vhds in this thread . There's also an introductory FreedosHD in the core's github, and you can find a Quickstart guide on how to mount it in the wiki (it also applies to other hd images). Once you get a hdd running, you will be in MS-DOS command line and need to use DOS commands ("dir", "C...

akeley

The core is able to run .sna files ("Load Snapshot *Z80, SNA" in OSD), I've just tried to load a few and they work ok. Did you try your snapshots in an emulator?

akeley

I've just tried more than 10 random .z80s from the latest Lady Eklipse's TOSEC set and they all work fine. The core will even detect whether the snapshot was from 48 or 128K machine and adjust the hardware settings accordingly, so I doubt it's the issue. So, not sure why it's not working for you. Make sure you have boot.rom in the /games/spectrum/ ...

akeley

Try the basic tips in this Manual: https://github.com/adreeve/MiSTerManual/

Some games will only work with NEWDOS. Generally it can depend on a source too (not all disks or cmd programs will run).

TRS-80 is one of my favourite retro underdogs and I might try to conjure a game pack for it soon.

akeley

Its true that different set-ups have different benefits, I don't miss using special graphics cards and hacked drivers and emulator with hacks to make this things work. Mister is so simple, CRT friendly straight out of the box and its only going to get better. Imo Mister is better on CRT since it offers 1:1 image out of the box with zero fuss in mo...

akeley

Thank you for the detailed reply, yoshi41. It did help me to sort it out (even though phrases such as "DHCP address pool" still make my mind go blank and using vi was a bit scary - after a few reboots the MiSTer's IP remains stable and WinSCP logs in instantly now every time.

akeley

Ok, I managed to run the script from the Linux terminal on the mister itself (F9). But, I didn't change the default values in the script first, so now I can't log in via WinSCP at all. I suppose I should try and modify the script directly on the SD card and then run it again. Question is, what values should I use? My PC is connected to the router v...

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