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Armitage wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 4:22 pm Might be a dumb question but where can I source U1 and U2? The 4-channel level shifters I found (e.g. Adafruit) had different pinouts than in the schematic. Thanks!

For information, here is where we bought U1 for the SMD version. (You'll see it above in this thread) and it works like a charm
https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/32832408167.html

Mills wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:59 pm
You should test some EGA games, you'll be surprised the things an XT can do, many EGA programs and games up to 1992 will work very well, even VGA ones.

Agree with you as well, Ultima V, Wizardry IV are one of them. I also think about Deluxe paint with the EGA pallet and resolutions which works also fine on PC-XT.

Thank you @eriks5,

I really like the VIC jail bars option. It's impressive how now the display mimics the original hardware.

Thanks again for your hardwork

I'm not sure it makes sense to add VGA to the PCXT core though as it will need porting it to an 8-bit bus. Using it for a "PCAT" core (with a 16bit CPU and bus) is probably simpler and will make it easier to get extra Mhz for games. Hercules on the other hand is perfect for the PCXT. There are some games that use this mode for higher res...

Tanks @Flandango, just tested on my side with the Mame bioses and it works like a charm.
This is really nice to see either the US kbd or French kbd recognized as they should.

Work on my side. At least both com ports are shown during the BIOS post (VTechLaserTurboXT)
The mouse is also working fine on Com1.

@spark2k06, I apologize, while I was thinking when I built the Bioses that I was using the new XTIDE, I in fact used the old one. I copied the wrong one in the folder where I put the .BIN... I've just repeated the operation (with the new XTIDE at the right place :-)) and now everything work as it should. Very sorry.. @flynnsbit, your guess was true...

spark2k06 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 14, 2022 6:54 am In those other BIOSes, are you using the new XTIDE in EC00 or in F000? Wherever it is, make sure it's the new XTIDE BIOS... there's no other reason than that.

Yes, I'm pretty sure I have. But I'll double check this evening. I keep you posted.

@spark2k06, Good morning, Did I miss something or maybe I do something wrong but since the new version of the core, while the Tandy & JukoST bioses work like a charm with the HDD that I've created (following the std rule as you explained), this same HDD is not recognized at all by other Bioses, even the TurboXT does not recognized it on my side...

Hi, Is there anyway to port Maldita Castilla minix version to Mister Fpga ?!? https://locomalito.com/maldita_castilla.php This game is just incredible ! Thanks for your return :mrgreen: I also think as other ones said above that the best/easiest way is to use it on a PC (or maybe a RPI). Anyway, thanks for sharing this information about this game....

Thank you @syltefar,
Really well done and very clear, for sure, this kind of tutorial is helpful.

I've tried it, and I do confirm I like it as well :-) EDIT 20221103 : @spark2k06, I've tested this nice GLaBIOS a bit deeper and I've faced to an issue with the program IBM LOGO. Actually the program IBM LOGO crashs right after the logo prompt. I've tried the same disk (*) under the IBM5150/60 BIOS downloaded from the Github and it works as it shou...

@spark2k06, This week end, I tried several Bios from different motherboards to see if I could find a similar to the Juko in terms of smooth display while doing a DIR for instance, and which is compatible with the mouse driver + GWbasic. I've tested at least 15 different ones and none of them are showing this nice behavior (on the other side most of...

Thank you @spark2k06, I did it following your recommendation and still same issue :-( Thank you! With this test at least we now know that it is not a COM port conflict. You're welcome ! Thanks to @Tonton which advised me to try another bios than Juko, it appeared that this issue is not present with the IBM5150-5160 BIOS. With this BIOS, everything...

Thank you @spark2k06,

I did it following your recommendation and still same issue

Thank you @somhi, I've just tried it thanks to a friend who built the core for me with the Kitune-san's peripherals.sv and still the same issue. Check to see if it is a conflict with the serial port between the mouse and serdrive. To do this, try the following. Unmount any HDD image and boot MSDos with a floppy disk where you load the mouse driver...

Thank you @somhi,
I've just tried it thanks to a friend who built the core for me with the Kitune-san's peripherals.sv and still the same issue.

Hello all, Back to my concern with the use of the mouse with EDIT. Actually I realized that EDIT needs QBASIC to work. I then try to run QBASIC with the mouse and the same problem happens. Sometime QBASIC starts but freeze when I load a .bas file. Sometime it even doesn't start at all. Of course without the mouse driver (ctmouse ou mouse.com) every...

Thank you @breiztiger,

Just tried on my side, and same as you, EDIT opens, the mouse works but a few seconds then the cursor freezes.

This is very strange.

EDIT: it seems to be quite random the freeze. Had no issue after 10' and a reboot later, it freeze after a couple of seconds.

@spark2k06,

Any idea where this issue comes from ?

Thank you @jordi, Just tried with the Freedos image and it works like a charm. No issue anymore with EDIT and Ctmouse. Is this a well known issue under the DOS ? EDIT : I did the same test with DOS 5.0 and Ctmouse loaded but in MDA mode instead of CGA and with this set up, everything work ! So it seems that there is a conflict somewhere with the CG...

Hello, I've just noticed a weird issue with the mouse. I do not think that I did something wrong (but who knows :-) ), I'm using MS-DOS Version 5.0, Ctmouse v1.9 (ctmouse /s2) and once I've the ctmouse loaded, the EDIT command of MS-DOS freezes. When ctmouse is not loaded, EDIT works, I've tried with different IRQ just to see, but always the same i...

Same here, tried the JP version (with JP bios of course) and I got balck screen after the loading screen.

Thanks, sorry I missed this information. Now it is clear that for the moment I've to stay with English kbd. Not a problem at all.

Hello everyone, Maybe this has already been mentioned, if so, sorry for asking twice (I've however found nothing related to this topic). Well, I've a strange keyboard behavior when I use the DOS command keyb fr to change the keyboard layout to French for instance. The keyboard works fine by default (US map) but if I want to change it, in my case by...

@Caldor,
Maybe this video ? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S1kkOexjyg

kitune-san wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 1:35 pm
Passed the read!
The next step is to rebase to the main branch.

Great news.
Arigato kitune-san !

Flandango wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:24 am Another obscure computer/console of the early 80s...
Requires bios from Mame (pv2000.zip) extracted into games/Casio_PV-2000/boot0.rom
Check the repo for key mapping and details.

Thank you hundreds of times for this new core !.
I really like to discover those obscure systems.
Thanks for bringing it to life one more time.

Hi @eobet, What about the TOS image ?, have you put the TOS.IMG at the right location ? TOS.IMG is the operating system (from 1.0 for the early system to the 2.06 for the latest STE) of the ST. All versions are easily findable on the web. Just rename one to TOS.IMG Actually the core expects to find the TOS in a file called TOS.IMG. If it is not the...

I suppose the core could be updated to provide the signals to a new adapter that hooks a datasette to the MiSTer user port. But it'll be more complicated than most adapters as the datasette motor requires 9 volts to operate. At the end, I think that 9V it's not an issue!! You could do it with a step up booster (5V to 9V). Regards, Shark I'm using ...

Thanks a thousand of times for this amazing progress on this core. I've already tried some applications that I'm using on my real Tandy and so far they all run like a charm * Personal Inventory * Logo IBM * Eureka the solver * Turbo Pascal * GWbasic * Visicalc * PC-Calc Will test more apps for sure. But I'm already so happy to see all of those work...