MiSTer FPGA Forum

RascalUK wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:11 am I've got a couple of screens lying around at home. Any chance of a wiring diagram when you get a min?

What type of screens (type of chip that the display is driven by)? We're experimenting with ILI9341 based display for now...
EDIT: Damn! We're at the i2c2oled thread here. Forget about my post.

That looks a cool little thing. Can you animate the images ? Was thinking something like an animated 1541 drive would be superb, or for Atari - the 1050, or even a 1010 cassette drive. We, Venice and myself, are already working on the next level of core display. There, and with the actual tty2oled devices (ESP8266, ESP32), it would be possible in ...

Well, animation is possible:

venice wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:10 am

MiSTer_Kirk wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:53 am ..
Can you animate the images ?
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I don't think the Bash Script is fast enough but an (C/C++) Program should support that.
Like I wrote, there is space for improvement.

Bash's speed would be sufficient for sure. But display's speed? Dunno. The easiest way for an animation would be a small set of pictures, sent one after one. We'll see...

That looks a cool little thing. Can you animate the images ? Was thinking something like an animated 1541 drive would be superb, or for Atari - the 1050, or even a 1010 cassette drive. We, Venice and myself, are already working on the next level of core display. There, and with the actual tty2oled devices (ESP8266, ESP32), it would be possible in ...

Jukk@M wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:22 pm

Dam'it, you hardworking bee! Thanks a lot!

MaxPlaysMiSTer wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:45 pm Very very cool! This could definitely be adapted to replace the marquee for the lucky bastards that have their MiSTer in a cabinet too.

Is that your MiSTer in that nice BarTop? What's that type of display there as it's marquee?

Obligatory NOT A DEV :D I just wanted to know if something like this is feasible...a script that runs on a PC and "listens" and logs things from a MiSTer connected to the same network. Use Case: I stream on Twitch using the MiSTer and I'd love to have a way to change a specific text file on my PC when switching Game/Core on the MiSTer. T...

Updates First Release of USB-Version . Many thanks to RealLarry tty2oled updates to support SD- and USB-Version SD-Version updated to support 115200 Baud The Standard-Version will no longer get updates because of the new USB-Version. Please test the USB Version and report here. Second Post updated Yeah, it's a kind of magic! 8-) Deriving from my o...

This is the setup of my (first) MiSTer. I called it "MiST(er)2Go" as it's a portable system of MiST, MiSTer and a WeTek Hub (CoreELEC). It's not a beauty, but an unremarkable case I'm carrying along when traveling. No tedium guaranteed.

Are there any components that could step down a 12V source into 5V, but still passthrough 12V? Would be very useful for modding arcade setups that need 12V for the screen (and maybe for the amp). The only thing that I found that does this is the power part of an IDE hard drive adapter (suggested by Sorgelig long ago in another thread); but it's a ...

I'd also love to see this supported with the MT32-pi, but that connects to the user port, which, if I'm not mistaking, connects to the FPGA. So the core itself would have to display its logo on it and the MT32-pi would need functionality added to make this possible. If I understand you correctly what you intend to do, this wouldn't work. The MT32-...

Also using a real MT-32 and I'm mixing different audio sources with a simple audio mixer device. See pic for an example.

Some weeks ago I bought a Roland RA-50 for my wife and her GEM WS1 - and for testing with it my MiST and MiSTer setups. I'm using a noname USB2MIDI for that. This ist just working when selecting MT32 in MiSTery and AO486 software and games. Beautiful.

As this seems to be the relevant topic, I just thought I'd share my findings about which DOS mode CD drivers work: OAKCDROM.SYS - Oak generic driver, it's the one that comes with the Windows boot disk, but it's also slow to start and consumes by far the most memory. VIDE-CDD.SYS - Acer driver, this one gets recommended regularly on Vogons as it's ...

You're absolutely right. I wish someone would create a small interface for MiSTer's GPIO<->SIO to be able to connect all Atari devices which are using SIO bus.
Should be doable with no great witchcraft as very similar interfaces exists for Arduino, PCs and many others. The tricky part would be to implement this into the atari800 core...

I'm relatively sure that almost all commercial software got converted from cassettes to whatever. But I still have some cassettes of myself with some nice programs they never appeared somewhere at archives. I converted some programs by recording them from cassette player->line out->PC and saved them as .CAS format, but this is really an annoying an...

Solskogen wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 1:45 pm

thorr wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:54 pm Second Reality still doesn't work.

I got it to work. What happens when you run it?

Same here...2nd Reality is just running fine (along with other fine demos).

The actual bios file is in there, in releases directory, but, to get it completely working, a different bios may be required, and, that one hasn't been implemented, at all, afaik, although, there is apparently, a closed source bios, floating around, that works, I might have actually seen a system using this bios that seems to be doing pretty good,...

No problems at all here with Arcade-TimePilot84_20200713.rbf, both MRAs (set1 and set2) and using tp84.zip from mame 0.222 merged. My MiSTer is setup with I/O board, 128MB RAM and an USB->DB9 board, using HDMI and a PSU with 5V/DC 2A. You do not mention tp84a.zip. From the Set 2 mra I understood I needed both tp84.zip and tp84a.zip. The problem I ...

No problems at all here with Arcade-TimePilot84_20200713.rbf, both MRAs (set1 and set2) and using tp84.zip from mame 0.222 merged.
My MiSTer is setup with I/O board, 128MB RAM and an USB->DB9 board, using HDMI and a PSU with 5V/DC 2A.

Astonishing, unbelievable and fascinating. Haven't tested this optimized core yet, but followed this thread from beginning and am glad of this co-op'ed work of you. And that's why I'm a patreon supporter.

Funny, I've still some of these consoles somewhere in my attic.

Just tested with some random CARtridges, especially Space Harrier (2018) and even Atarimax Cartridges - but all of them are working fine.
With the Atarimax ones I'd to exit to MiSTer menue sometimes and to re-enter the core to get them work. (128MB SDRAM, core atari800-20200509)

Try adding ADDITIONAL_REPOSITORIES+=( "https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer|ini|$BASE_PATH/ini_examples" ) to your update.ini, you will have an always updated MiSTer.ini in /media/fat/ini_examples. Whenever you launch ini_settings.sh if there’s no MiSTer.ini, but MiSTer_example.ini exists, it will copied to MiSTer.ini, otherwise i...

"Me too". I don't watch any of these loud "HEY BRO's, I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL" videos on youtube. Normally. But Pezz82 (new) video was quite interesting. A clear voice, almost no jump cuts and actual worth-knowing-things he talked about.
I subscribed to his channel; the first time I did this in years. Thank you, Pezz82!

And there is a handy tool in the Hatari emulator (at least under Linux) called atari-hd-image, which creates a harddisk image based upon a local directory.

We could modify and use Gentoo's etc-update https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X ... etc-update
That's what I'm using daily at my ArchLinux and OpenSuSE systems (and years before when I was using Gentoo).

RSS feeds are already available! This was the first task I did when I joined this forum
For example: The overall RSS is availabe via feed

EDIT: RSS feeds für subforums are also available, i.e. use feed/forum/18 for /CONSOLE CORES/SNES/

Good suggestion, would be happy to get such a solution in either way. I'm fetching and diff'ing MiSTer.ini every few weeks for now.