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MARS FPGA Will Let You Use Your Original Carts And Support Legacy AV Connections

Time Extension about 1 day ago

"It's going to be very different from anything that is available right now".The team behind the MARS FPGA project has just revealed new information about the promising retro gaming platform.The biggest bombshell is that the console will allow you to use yo …

Signs It’s Time for a Phone Upgrade

Retromash about 2 days ago

Mobile phones are personal objects that bring so much usefulness into your life. It’s no wonder then that many people get nostalgic about their old phones. How many of us out there had a Nokia back in the day, or perhaps a BlackBerry or a Sony Ericcs …
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Random: Former CeX Staffer Holds Reddit AMA, And The First Question Is A Doozy

Time Extension about 3 days ago

"Basically CeX screwed me over so I'll answer anything".Before anyone assumes this post is a dig at CeX, we'd like to make it known that we have a huge soft spot for the store. It began life as one of the best places to buy computer components and import v …

Atari ST / STe • Mass MSA to ST Disk Format Converter

MISTerFPGA about 3 days ago

Hi folks,Just recently I bought myself a MiSTer FPGA and I already love it ... Now, my background is in the Atari ST demoscene back in the 90s and I desperately wanted to ramp up my MiSTer with all my disk collections I collected over time here. I was a b …
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The Dreamcast Directory: Websites We Love in 2024

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 4 days ago

Late last year, in a gratuitous act of procrastination, I authored a piece for the Junkyard that surveyed the hefty range of Dreamcast websites that had sprung up in the console’s “post-Sega” era but which had sadly since bit the dust. In reality tha …

Display Devices • USB control of a CRT

MISTerFPGA about 6 days ago

I have a relatively "new" CRT with a USB port for software-based OSD. This means it's possible to adjust monitor settings via software.Someone has made a tool for doing this: https://github.com/ondrej-z... here's a compiled binary for MiSTer: …
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YouTuber Scores $2000 Sega Saturn Mother Lode For 500 Bucks At GameStop

Time Extension about 7 days ago

"I love GameStop".These days, stores are pretty savvy about the value of retro games. We've got dedicated shops which specialise in selling vintage gaming hardware and software, so the chances of picking up a bargain from an unsuspecting retailer are slimm …
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PC 486SX (ao486) • QNX 4.25 (Unix-like OS) on ao486

MISTerFPGA about 8 days ago

Hello community,Preliminary notes:QNX is a Unix-like microkernel real-time OS, primarily targeted for embedded devices and which some of you might remember for its amazing 1.44 MB floppy demo from mid '90s sporting a fully bootable OS, GUI, mouse support, …
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Stern Pinball reveals John Wick pinball machines

Pinball Magazine about 12 days ago

George Gomez and Tim Sexton present John Wick pinball Back of the flyer for John Wick Limited Edition Stern Pinball just revealed its newest cornerstone pinball machine: John Wick. Images of the game have yet to be shared, but the pre …

Newcomers Forum • MiSTer Crashes When Using Hard Drive Images

MISTerFPGA about 17 days ago

I am not really new to mister. used it for some years. but was unsure where to put this.I think my mister may have a hardware problem OR I have a software problem? After an update the mister started crashing when I loaded cores with diskfiles (hard disk f …
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Feature: FPGA Vs Software Emulation - Which Is Best? We Asked Four Experts To Find Out

Time Extension about 18 days ago

Which option should you choose in 2024?Once upon a time, if you wanted to play a retro game without using the original hardware, then your only option was software-based emulation. These emulators would be coded for platforms such as Windows, Linux or Andr …

Quake 2 now also available as digital version for AmigaOS 3 (68k)

Amigans about 20 days ago

Alinea Computer is very pleased to be able to offer the version for AmigaOS 3 (68k) as a digital download in addition to the Quake 2 version for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and has implemented numerous features that have not y …

Sony PlayStation (PSX) • PSX Core Stopped Working

MISTerFPGA about 22 days ago

Hello all! MiSTer noob here. I cannot for the life of me get the PSX core to work! I have looked at all the posts on this forum and a couple others around the internet but nothing so far has helped. I initially installed it (and the bios) using update_all …
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The Source Code To Star Fighter 3DO Has Been Released Online

Time Extension about 24 days ago

Thanks to the original devs and members of the 3DO community.The source code to yet another classic video game has just been released online, thanks to a combined effort between 3DO fans and the original developers.This time, the game in question is Krisal …
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Did You Butcher Your Mega Drive / Genesis Carts To Overcome Sega's Physical Region Lock?

Time Extension about 24 days ago

It's time to own up.Region locking is effectively a thing of the past today, but back in the '90s, it was a very real headache for those of us who wanted to occasionally dabble in the world of grey imports.Companies like Nintendo, Sega and Sony employed re …
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Guide: All Analogue Pocket OpenFPGA Cores And Where To Download Them

Time Extension about 25 days ago

Update: Irem M92 core added.The Analogue Pocket is a high-end handheld retro gaming system that uses FPGA technology to replicate the performance of classic gaming platforms on a hardware (rather than software) level, which means it's incredibly accurate. …

Hardware Setups • MT32-Pi No Return Audio to MiSTer

MISTerFPGA about 26 days ago

Hi,Only new to the mister project and has been working great except having issues with getting MIDI working.I am trying to get MIDI sounds with Mister using Pi 4 with MT32 software.I have a vanilla DE10-nano (no addon boards) and a Pi 4 connected with jum …
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The ESA Says Its Members Won't Support Plans For Online 'Game Preservation' Libraries

Time Extension about 26 days ago

The battle continues.Despite it being the biggest entertainment medium on the face of the planet in terms of revenue, efforts to properly preserve the history of video gaming continue to face opposition – even from those organisations that you'd assume w …
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Homepin announces open source Blues Brothers pinball machine – updated

Pinball Magazine about 30 days ago

Taiwan-based pinball manufacturer Homepin is working on the world’s first open source commercial pinball machine, which will be themed around the Blues Brothers. Pinball Magazine received a press release from Homepin stating the following:  …

Newcomers Forum • What Are the Reasons to Own a MiSTer Without a CRT?

MISTerFPGA about 30 days ago

I have recently found myself questioning my purchase of a Mister FPGA. I don't own a CRT and I have absolutely no intention of getting one. I have found myself using software emulation quite a bit the last few weeks and I really can't tell the difference. …
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'The Epyx Collection: Handheld' Brings 6 Atari Lynx Games To Switch

Time Extension about 1 month ago

The collection will release on April 25th.A new emulation collection containing six classic Atari Lynx games is about to be released on the Nintendo Switch eShop later this month (as spotted by gosokkyu!).The Epyx Collection: Handheld comes courtesy of the …
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Paper Mario utilizes rendering techniques available on the Nintendo 64 hardware that are highly…

Supper Mario Broth about 1 month ago

Paper Mario utilizes rendering techniques available on the Nintendo 64 hardware that are highly obscure and not well supported on emulators, including any official software used by Nintendo themselves to emulate the game on other systems as part of the Vir …

Hollywood Designer 7.0 released

Amigans about 1 month ago

20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood Designer quickly b …
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Feature: All Is Not Well In The World Of FPGA Retro Gaming

Time Extension about 1 month ago

Update: Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar make peace.Update: It seems Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar have now buried the hatchet and have moved on, which is great news:Original Story : It's fair to say that Field-Programmable Gate Array ch …
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Anniversary: The Amstrad CPC Just Turned 40, And We Almost Didn't Notice

Time Extension about 1 month ago

40 years of Alan Sugar's baby.Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC home computer – and it almost slipped us by.Were it not for a tweet (spotted half a day after publication) by Revolution Software co-founder Tony Warriner, this moment …