Archie broken?

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Archie broken?

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I did not use this core for quite some time but not only do I get a black screen but I cannot activate the OSD and have to reboot MISTer. My MISTer is up to date.
Can anyone confirm?
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Are you trying to use it with a CRT? The VGA scaler is forced on recent versions of the core so it doesn't output 15Khz over Direct Video or the I/O board anymore (unless you configure a suitable modeline).

If this isn't the case, try re-downloading and replacing riscos.rom from the github and/or deleting CMOS.dat on your MiSTer.
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lister_of_smeg wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:27 am (unless you configure a suitable modeline).
Have you got one you can share?
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akeley wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:42 am
lister_of_smeg wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:27 am (unless you configure a suitable modeline).
Have you got one you can share?
Nope, sorry. I did experiment a while back, but was only able to get an extremely narrow image on my Trinitron.

I was kinda hoping myself that someone would chime in with one that works! ;)
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Thanks for the answers. I just have an idea regarding this problem: it is the riscos.rom file but not its contents, instead its name.
I use a USB drive and in my regular setup it is formatted exFAT, I am doing some tests with a different SD card and USB drive and this drive is formatted ext4 which is case sensitive.
Does anyone knows the proper case for riscos.rom? I downloaded the repo for the core and tried to find out but I am unable to find it. I have no knowledge of the framework which makes things difficult. I see that ioctl and indexes are used for the rom and the cmos but do not find any riscos string. Same thing when searching the rbf with an hex editor.
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In the event it's case sensitive, try games/ARCHIE/RISCOS.ROM.
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Thanks, I already tried RiscOS.rom without success. I will try your suggestion later today. I see you are very active in MISTer FPGA development, do you know how this thing works?
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I dabble a little bit with development on Mister and I understand just enough to get me in trouble.
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Re: Archie broken?

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Not sure if you are using HDMI or trying the analog video out (VGA)?

If you want to use a 15KHz monitor I regrettably have to recommend using the version from November 1st 2020. That's what I use. RBF download here. Since then I have not seen a version that supports 15KHz monitors.

Riscos rom on my Archie is lower case: riscos.rom. It should be 2048K.
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Thanks to Flandango, RISCOS.ROM did the trick.
Note to USB drives users when the drive is formatted NTFS or ext4:
Rename your riscos.rom to RISCOS.ROM.

I see several posts regarding which video I use. I use HDMI.
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After updating MISTer using the new downloader riscos.rom is back. At least it did not remove RISCOS.ROM.
Same thing with the SharpMZ games subdirectory: it should be sharpmz when using case sensitive FS. After updating I now have both.
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