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Malor

You might want to check your images for corruption with Windows chkdsk. I'm not sure the update script is safe.

Malor

You're in an excellent position to document what's confusing. It's much more obvious to you than to any of the devs. It may not directly lead to fixes, but putting your notes and solutions into the readme.md file would probably be workable. I'm not the maintainer for this core, but if I were, I'd be very happy to get some solution writeups from an ...

Malor

You'd have to keep the lid open for ventilation though. You might want to consider a custom lid with vents, so you can keep it closed without it overheating I've never used a PSOne, but IIRC, my actual PS1 lid cover wasn't airtight, so with the fan blowing, it may be able to pull in enough air from around the edges of the CD cover. It's a shame th...

Malor

A possibility, albeit kind of a remote one, is that your SD could be failing. They do that, especially low-quality or counterfeit ones. Be alert for other I/O-type issues; if you start seeing those, SD failure moves way up the list of possible explanations.

Malor

Why doesn't the OSD for this core have an option to reboot and load so you don' t have to go to a forum to understand why it isn't working? I agree with your overall sentiment, but I will comment that 8-bit computers were wildly divergent from one another. Modern UI standards didn't exist yet, so many of them had extra keys or other UI elements th...

Malor

I'm not clear what problem you're trying to get help with, peke?

Malor

At low voltages, it's the amperage that matters, so MostroW is pointed right at the problem. The switch you have is rated for 1 amp at 30 volts, so it will also be 1 amp at 5 volts. You want at least a 4A switch; you'd probably want one specced larger, for safety, maybe 6A if the difference isn't too costly. This is likely one of the problems with ...

Malor

Just in case: you did try rebooting? And then verifying that logo=0 is still in the INI file? If it works after a warm boot, but not a cold one, that usually means that your config directory is on a different filesystem than the main Mister binary. If it's not up yet when the menu launches, it will use default settings. When you warm boot, the ini ...

Malor

If you're sure you got the password right, try adding a "country=US" argument into the network clause of /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. I think the password will also be in that file, so triple-check that it's correct. If you're not in the US, substitute your country code. I don't think you can access that file under Windows, I think you have ...

Malor

I went and looked, and he doesn't even say what that does . There is literally not one word of documentation on what the "crtc" project is for, and "crtc", by itself, doesn't carry any useful information. Maybe there's something in the sources, but a basic explanation of what it's about would seem in order before trying to dig t...

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My comment was only in regards to your remark that the use of the 68000 put the Amiga five generationshead of the competition. It was the multitasking OS that put it five generations ahead, not the CPU. It had device drivers, printer drivers (although the whole print subsystem was terrible), callable system libraries, pluggable filesystems, and an...

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The Mister doesn't speak any power delivery protocols, and requires 5V input on the barrel connector, ideally at 4 amps. I'm not sure that supply would put out that much amperage without negotiation, which the Mister can't do. Port 4 might work, with an adapter to the barrel plug, but no promises.

Malor

edit: nevermind, you won't have those files. I thought update_all added them, but I forgot that I did that.

Malor

The Falcon had at least one major design problem, as I recall: the DSP chip was totally bottlenecked on the system DRAM. It was a good idea, and could have been kind of amazing, but the chip was fairly crippled by the slow RAM. It probably needed a local fast RAM store to really work well, like a modern GPU's video RAM. I've never heard this direct...

Malor

I think you're drawing the exact wrong conclusion there, spark2k06. It wasn't essential on Wordperfect, but F11 was something that almost every user would bang on constantly. And, per jca, real XTs could read the code, so IMO you should be moving both F11 and F12 to Windows-F11 and F12, like the AO486 core does. Intercepting those keystrokes was no...

Malor

Yeah, it was definitely ten years ahead of everyone else, and that was ten years when things were moving incredibly fast. CPUs doubled in power every 18 months to 2 years, which in a sense put it five generations in the lead. To be fair when the Amiga was released the 68000 mas already 6 years old and the 7MHz was a rather slow clock speed. The 68...

Malor

Ok, I tracked down the WordPerfect info. Yes, F11 was Reveal Codes. F12 was used for block selection. However, these were secondary keys; you could also use alt-F3 and alt-F4, respectively. F11 and F12 were clearly added later, because that one function each is all they do. The other function keys are all overloaded with normal key, control key, al...

Malor

ùcpm for AZERTY and |cpm for QWERTY this is well know! Remember, lots of people here will be touching an Amstrad for the first time, me included. Community knowledge is not something we share. Well-known or not, we may well not know it. 8-bit machines had tons of weirdnesses because they were so simple, so never beat anyone up for not knowing the ...

Malor

Yeah, it was definitely ten years ahead of everyone else, and that was ten years when things were moving incredibly fast. CPUs doubled in power every 18 months to 2 years, which in a sense put it five generations in the lead. It was a multitasking, multithreaded OS on a 7.1MHz CPU, and it was downright usable. And AmigaOS had incredible expandabili...

Malor

The only hybrid CPU project I know about is for the Amiga, and that seems to have fizzled pretty hard.

Malor

It felt like magic and having to eventually move to a Pentium/Windows was so painful. I struggled with DOS for years. I was constantly looking to recreate multitasking. I used the BBS program Telemate, because it could do its own internal multitasking, so I could at least read READMEs while downloading other things. I loathed Windows 3.1, and wasn...

Malor

It shouldn't, however, just sit there. If it's loading ROMs or whatever, it should tell you and show a progress bar.

Malor

How well does it actually work under LXDE? I'd expect it to be kind of horrible?

Malor

I think the dual screen thing was used quite a bit for development work, but almost everyone nowadays would write code on a PC and then cross-compile. It was a very popular feature then, but largely irrelevant to modern use cases.

Malor

It’s not really 68EC020 anymore when it handles hundreds of MB with RAM. 32 bit processor = 4gb of memory... So, hundred of MB? Easy... The 68EC020 only connected 24 address pins, so it could only physically support 16MB of RAM. AFAIK it still did the full logical decoding of 32 bits, and then just threw errors when it couldn't physically access h...

Malor

A better way of doing this, which didn't become mainstream on the Mister until after this thread was created, is to use favorites.sh. You can get it by using update_all, and turning on the Wizzo extension scripts. Once you've got it, just run that script and point it at the ROM you want. Then name it whatever you like, and it will create and save i...

Malor

What you're asking for definitely seems technically feasible, but it would need multiple steps and quite a bit of time. If there's a CUPS driver for that little printer, it would probably be an easier project; at that point you'd need an I/O program to monitor the Gameboy's print device, and then build a CUPS-compatible image. It probably wouldn't ...

Malor

It's one of the only cores where you have to assemble the ROMs you want to use yourself. Almost all the other cores can have their ROMs downloaded by update_all.sh, but the XT core can use several different ROMs based on what capabilities you want your XT or Tandy 1000 to have, so you kind of have to download and build those yourself. Once you've g...

Malor

I'm maybe wrong but to me this is true that at the beginning, the XT keyboards were having "only" 10 function keys. I guess that the 2 additional function keys were introduced once the AT came on the market, so the extended keyboard were also used on the XT where some apps took the benefit of this, like WP5.1. That sounds right to me, bu...

Malor

The Daemonbite adapters will let you hook various console controllers up via USB. They add about 1ms of latency versus a SNAC adapter, but in exchange, you can use the SNES controller to drive the menus. A SNAC controller talks only to its one specific core, so you need something else for the Mister's menus. They're open source, so you can build on...

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