Fifty pages of complete engineering schematics for the Atari 7800 and its associated ICs have been released by Curt Vendel, the historian behind the Atari Museum History Project. The documents have circulated among private individuals for years, but this is the first time they have been publicly accessible. The schematics essentially provide a blueprint that […]
The first official release of the Neo-Geo core is now available for the MiSTer platform! Thanks to the hard work of Furrtek, Sorgelig, Greyrogue, Rysha and other contributors, installing it is as easy as choosing the update option in the scripts menu of the MiSTer. Users who do not have network connectivity or that prefer […]
Xilinx revealed their new high-end FPGA, the Virtex VU19P, which will be the largest FPGA ever created. It comes from their line of 16nm UltraScale+ FPGAs and contains 35 billion transistors. It boasts the highest logic density and the input/output count (2,072) of any single device ever made, and is 1.6X larger than the Virtex […]
Jotego released Popeye and Commando arcade FPGA cores to his patrons, for both MiSTer and MiST. Both cores are open-source and will be made publicly available once complete. I debuted them live and found Popeye to be especially impressive. It is a very early application of interlaced graphics, which looks a little strange via HDMI, but […]
srg320 has written an FPGA soft-core for the Sega SVP chip for MiSTer’s Genesis core, to support Virtua Racing. This is the first-ever FPGA SVP implementation. Retro Nation posted a video of it in action in the video above.
I recently performed lag tests on the updated MiSTer HDMI scaler written by Grabulosaure and found that the lag is now less than one frame! My test method consisted of running the RGB output of the MiSTer into a Sony PVM monitor via the core (console)’s native resolution and refresh rate. I then ran the HDMI […]
Many older MiSTer arcade FPGA cores have been left behind from the overhauls and updates that console and PC cores received over the last year. Several were still on the old scaler and lacked new features. Alan Steremberg has made it his mission to bring every single one of them up to date and on […]
MiSTeraddons.com has just launched new 3D printed cases, as well as acrylic cases. The “V2” 3D printed case is available now for $35, plus $10 for the additional USB hub case. It will be a few weeks until the acrylic cases are ready, but those will sell for $55. It’s my personal opinion that a case […]
MiSTerAddons.com put several of the most popular 40mm fans for MiSTer head to head to find out which type is the quietest and keeps the DE10-nano the coolest. His test methods are scientific in that they take the ambient temperature and room noise into account, and he’s taken safeguards to standardize variables that may have […]
Last month Ace joined me on a live-stream to reveal a preview of his impressive new FPGA core for MiSTer, Arkanoid (1986) Arcade. The core is now publicly released after a very long development cycle that required transposing several PCBs of real arcade hardware (a mix of arcade PCBs, old ICs, and other soft-core donors) […]
