FPGA World Tour

[meauxdal]

the other thing that i come back to over and over and over again with MiSTer is you can’t summarize what it can do.

there is a video of someone using the Atari ST core and music software, linking it with a MIDI keyboard to take advantage of the Atari ST’s legendary MIDI timing

there are people connecting the C64 to old BBS software and poking around

there are people using Amiga desktop setups with productivity software at modern resolutions

these use cases are sufficient for entirely bespoke, expensive devices. MiSTer casually encompasses more than can be alluded to in any efficient manner. it is BOGGLING

[shelter]

once this and saturn are fully implemented i’m getting one

PS1 developer demo running on FPGA

[meauxdal]

was playing some FF2 (US) and decided to export this footage because i really like the way this game looks with these filter settings

Final Fantasy II (US) - MiSTer FPGA video test

youtube compression hurts but it still looks OK in full screen

[meauxdal]

Analogue Releases Updates, Reaffirms SNt/MSg/DAC Restock

[meauxdal]

FPGAzumSpass (AzumFpg)

[LaurelSoup]

Anyone have any experience with the AVS?

[meauxdal]

i do not. do you have one? they seem pretty cool.

https://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=78

[meauxdal]

i tried to show a better example of the scanlines, click to view full size. i should put some pngs up on imgur for best results methinks

Resolution: 1280x720
Scale: V-Integer
Aspect Ratio: Original
Filter: Scanlines (Soft)
Gamma: Poly 2.7

[meauxdal]

here are more 720p stills to show off some settings combinations. these are with special scanlines that don’t interpolate vertically

[Album] Horizontal interpolation only scanlines (V-Integer)

edit: they might have been named incorrectly… i think these don’t interpolate horizontally

[LaurelSoup]

No, but a guy I know recently mentioned having one and it being pretty cool. I had no idea it wasn’t just another of the usual famiclones.

[meauxdal]

Playing the first game on the PS1 FPGA recreation!

[meauxdal]

Let's Play Zork: The Great Underground Empire (Commodore 64) - Part 1

[meauxdal]

Kraftwerk - Computer Love (MIDI) - MiSTer FPGA MT-32 Pi MT-32 Pi-Hat -ao486 core

[Alyx]

I haven’t used one, but The AVS seems neat.

HDMI (720p)
NES and Famicom cartridge slots
4 player (supporting both types of 4 player games)
a Famicom expansion port

It doesn’t have microphone support, analog output, or 1080p
It doesn’t have a jailbreak, so if you want to play roms you need a flashcart

I’ve on and off considered buying one.

[Grandpa]

I’ve really enjoyed the Mister, but getting this big honkin’ Dell monitor and playing it on a proper 4:3 (or close enough, I fucked up when I researched what model this was) screen has been the thing that makes it feel “real.”

Not that scanlines don’t look good on an LCD monitor! There’s just something about going back to that old style screen that makes everything feel more authentic, even if I’m playing it all with fake scanlines and an 8Bitdo controller.

Like I’ve gotten further in Gradius, Parodius, and Super Ghouls N Ghosts than I ever have on anything else with this thing, for whatever that’s worth.

The only thing I miss is that good old pixel blending you’d get with an actual TV. A few cores do good approximations (the Genesis core has a Composite Blend option, the Jotego arcade cores have an “Old TV” setting that blurs things nicely), but nothing dead on.

God I don’t want to be the guy spending $50 to drag a 200 lb TV up a flight of stairs. Don’t let me be that guy

[meauxdal]

why not

jotego (topapate)

jotego (topapate)

jotego (topapate)

lmao mister is too much

[km]

Eyoyo®

How are these brand names generated

[Felix]

eyoyo actually makes pretty nice cheap, small displays, eg https://www.amazon.com/Eyoyo-Small-Monitor-Portable-1280x720/dp/B07FP2F9XY/ref=sr_1_19?dchild=1&keywords=eyoyo&qid=1614798179&sr=8-19

mine came with a bnc cable and I think it has a TV tuner in there? seems like it’s nominally in that weird parallel product category of “security equipment” but no one really does what they do better

it’s also fun to say

[meauxdal]

MiSTer amiga core got a new experimental audio engine, holy shit it sounds punchy as fuck now

minimig 20210304 unstable nightly audio test

[Grandpa]

Set up a couple of alternate ini files to kinda cover my basic needs as far as displaying games goes. I gotta bind the VGA settings to the HDMI output settings to get good picture on Game Boy and GBA games, but otherwise it’s working pretty well.

Ordered a proper VGA to Composite adapter so I can get a cleaner, nasty image on this little eBay TV.

Anyway, here’s some more monitor shots in the meantime.