MiSTer FPGA Forum

I'm sure I used a Bluetooth & USB keyboard at the same time (I had to use USB full size KB to map a key missing on mini Bluetooth board). That was months ago, can't imagine it's removed that functionality though).

This sounds like an old April fools joke! Other insane tips include urinating in the cartridge port before plugging in SMB3 for bonus levels, and of course plugging a human turd into the cartridge slot to get a virtually identical experience to SMB2. Actually, that last one is pretty accurate...

I saw elsewhere that a person has the top 300 best PSX games including multi disks and they fit on 165GB Double that for Sega CD and Turbo CD and you have 330 leaving 170GB for the rest and I would say you are fine with 512. You really don't need to cram the drive with crappy or bad games you will never play anyway. And Amiga & AO486 HDD's and...

mrtomato wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:46 pm 1TB are very overpriced - that way I could get 2x 512GB cheaper. I have 512GB and wondering if will be option to use IO Board's sd slot as additional storage, but I heard that it is not possible.

Get a tiny usb microSD reader for the other. I have one made for a keyring & it's a snug fit. Very handy.

Sigismond0 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 6:01 pm My LCD w/VGA port doesn't like the MiSter VGA output for some reason--it gives it a purplish tint. I did some really casual lag testing, and don't think there's any difference between what I get on that panel using VGA vs HDMI input.

Turn on ypbpr & make sure SOG switch is on correct setting, that will fix it.

I can't get Another World to run it all. It just freezes at a green screen after the initial code screen That's nice, green is such a lovely colour. I fail to see how CPU speed would benefit you here though. Is it just that it would it get you to that green screen you crave that nanosecond faster? Try a different version, or try changing CPU/chips...

with a top plate on top of my fan plate PCB + fan, what's the easiest way to ensure the fan doesn't move when I blow onto the board below it? try to wedge my finger in there and hold it in place? a little tape? Dont want to routinely disconnect the power from the board, to add more wear + tear. Just finger it. That's my mantra. Besides, how often ...

As for canned air - it won't damage anything only the environment :p HFC-134a and HFC-152a are greenhouse gases used in canned air While canned air probably isn't great for the environment, there's probably so much environmental carnage from the materials, production & shipping of his MiSTer, a few puffs of canned air will have a pretty neglig...

It's a dynamo. I've used fans as dynamos before. what's that mean? sorry haha Hah, no problem. A dynamo is just an electric generator. The kind your car has to charge up the battery, as the wheels turn they turn dynamo & it charges the battery. It's literally just like an electric motor reversed as stated above. You can use a small motor like ...

To give a bit context of computer speeds in days of yore, here's a little true story. Now boys & girls, settle down & listen... In 1996 I was going to uni & realised I'd have limited space in my small room in halls of residence. I had an unexpanded A1200 with a 420mb PC HDD jammed in it. So I decided to take my 500+ floppy disk collecti...

It's a dynamo. I've used fans as dynamos before.

I loved PGA 96 on my friends 486, was my favorite golf game of all time. Should work on AO486 (I'll get round to installing it some day).

USB HDD/SSD is definitely slower than using internal microSD. My Lexar 512Gb card runs pretty fast for Windows 98 on AO486. External 256Gb SSD is noticeably slower, which is a bummer. I had hoped the SSD would cope better with simultaneous r/w's than MicroSD. Before anyone says I'm a fool for using an SSD, it's just an old one I replaced from my PC...

The Amiga was not just "a computer", Amiga's were lots of different computers. While the AGA ones were generally backwards compatible, most older games required specific settings or software patches. WHDLoad does an incredible job of making all the games work fine on a single Amiga system. It would be surprising if a few incompatibilities...

Incorrect, there is no Fire & Ice AGA Slave... But indeed there are quite a few OCS games not starting and indicating "illegal instuction". Another example is Iridium and Simulcra. All of them do work in 68k / OCS mode. I had the same issue with some OCS WHDLoad games on AGA setup using MegaAGS. I'm fairly sure I found a way around i...

Hi, I have an older IO board without the fan speed jumper. I'm running a 5v Noctura fan, which is quieter than the original fan, but still an audible irritation. Can anyone give me a "simple" guide to getting the fan to run at 3.3v? The Noctura came with a ludicrously lengthy cable so I already split & shortened it, connecting to alte...

Does the POS stand for "Piece of Shit"?

Chris23235 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 1:14 pm Sounds like a bad image, try another version of the game.

Most likely a copy protection i induced malfunction the crackers failed to bypass.

There's an "easyflash" CRT version on CSDB. That wouldn't require any disk swap, it'll load faster and should be properly cracked.

To be clear, this patch only fixes the "standard bell", the bell that you get when character 7 (Ctrl-G) is printed. The keyboard buffer full indicator, and the PC Speaker sound in games, do not depend on this patch at all. Yes, I believe Mean Streets used PWM techniques to reproduce PCM sound, and was quite innovative in that. For beep s...

Also some older games used PC speaker only sound (I think "Mean Streets" might be an example).

I used a C&C rip found somewhere, ..., which was preinstalled and started it from within Win95. I didn't want to make ISO from my old CDs and install again and try lot of things just to test it short. Dos/4GW is known to have problems with the core, so either use Dos/32A or Windows to run these games. Same e.g. with Warcraft 2. I tried DOS/32A...

How I loved sitting at the computer, playing with my bell as a teenager! :lol: Brings back memories. The beeper was vital, you could diagnose H/W issues by counting the amount of beeps it made when you turned the PC on & got a blank screen. There was also a rather excellent "soundcard" emulator that used the beeper. I used it when wat...

I love all the old 80's computers. Just my personal favourite was c64, it was a pioneer. ZX Speccy had simplistic charm, a really British ingenuity where they know they can't afford good h/w but do great things with limited means. I did sneak a small statement in at the end of my last post in a feeble attempt to make it seem relevant to the topic 🤫.

The Vic20 is the best of the early bunch in my opinion. C64 the best of the mid period with BBC close behind. I was never a Spectrum fan, the sound was too poor to grab my attention. I'd count C64 as "early" period. VIC20 came out in 1981 I think & C64 in 1982, so not much between them. C64 is still my favourite computer of all time,...

I installed 98 & 98 lite & they work fine.

I keep one AO486 VHD on the MicroSD & the 2nd VHD on external HDD. If you copy from & to the same MicroSD it will be slow. Use 2 different storage devices in AO486 if possible. Also, HDD will generally work better for OS, & if using Win 95/98 turn virtual memory off. I think the poster was talking about connecting & transferring fil...

Reed_Solomon wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:56 pm Windows 98 technically requires an FPU but you can get it to run with the previous posters method.

Does 98 FE supposedly require FPU too? I can't remember now.

Yes. You need to run the setup without the check for CPU, "setup -nm" I think. If that's wrong a Google search will help find the right command switch. Also, read the 98lite setup thread I started in case the floppy problem prevents boot (basically after h/w setup boot to safemode & disable floppy - I recommend turning virtual memory ...

I was not intending to suggest Vampire & MiSTer are exactly comparable devices, just that having to chose one or the other (due to cost) I was personally delighted I'd chosen MiSTer. I was expressing delight that the full potential of the DE10 Nano may be harnessed, CPU & FPGA combined, and a new, upgraded Amiga implementation could be avai...

I'd definitely need to house my MiSTer in that old A600 if this comes to fruition. I was actually on the list for a Vampire 600 but opted to get the MiSTer instead. If high end Amiga's can be implemented then literally everything I wish for would be available in a single device. C64 & Amiga are joint No 1 priorities for me, of all the 30+ syste...