QMTech Full MiSTer Setup
MiSTer vendor Antonio Villena started selling a complete MiSTer FPGA custom kit that uses the DE10 Nano alternative from QMTech. Unfortunately, it is sold out at the moment but you can sign up for email updates for when they come back in stock.
The full kit costs $349. Antonio also plans to sell the kit without the QMTech board for those who already own the board.
- Post : https://twitter.com/antoniovil/status/1821459521232912774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1821459521232912774%7Ctwgr%5E53d5af36d8ad3e59a9677b252e2f2f76616e013b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fomnivore.app%2Fusername%2Fslug
- Product page : https://antoniovillena.com/product/complete-misterx-mini/
- QMTech Review Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBG4yg7kzLQ
X-Men Konami Arcade Game
Jotego showed off Konami’s X-Men arcade beat-em up running on a CRT. He also released an alpha core core testing on Discord.
- Post : https://twitter.com/topapate/status/1821574378565566679
- X-Men Saturn Homebrew port: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAMzt1GI3g
Pandora’s Palace
Core developer Pierco is back and is working on a new core for the Konami 1984 game Pandora’s Palace. Right now pierco says that he hooked up PROM and fixed values for the color resistors. Now he needs to look at sprite decoding.
- Post 1 : https://twitter.com/pcornier/status/1820071778321907974
- Post 2 : https://twitter.com/pcornier/status/1821805631738708145
- pierco support page: https://www.patreon.com/pierco
- pierco Twitter: https://twitter.com/pcornier
- pierco Github: https://github.com/pierCo
Other Jotego Updates
On Patreon, Jotego gave some updates on the following projects:
- Turtles in Time is booting up but sprites are not visible.
- Schematics for Racing Force, X-Men, Vendetta and The Simpsons have been updated.
Post : https://www.patreon.com/posts/development-trap-109781266
Taki Udons DE10 Nano Alternative
Taki gave us an update on the flagship console and hinted that it will also have a built-in screen. So it looks like something you will be able to take anywhere with you and use instantly. It’s not a handheld as it will have a screen that bigger than 7.9″. The exact form factor is unknown.
There is also some bad news for the DE10 Nano alternative. Due to a shipment delay on the mainboard port connectors, sale and shipment will now be a different day. Taki says that he’ll try to have an accurate sale and shipment date by the August 15th.
- Post : https://twitter.com/TakiUdon_/status/1820682811936055597
- Post 2 : https://twitter.com/TakiUdon_/status/1821879478811029777
- Post 3 : https://x.com/TakiUdon_/status/1822212681954128218
Game Attribute Randomizer
Allen Tipper posted on X about having an automization setup for randomized ROM generation and launching for TapTo and the MiSTerFPGA. This will leverage tools that generate ROMs that have certain attributes randomized to give more replay value for games. Examples are, randomizing enemy behavior, change the location of items and so much more. You can find out more on the projects GitHub.
QMTech FPGA IO Board
QMTech released the schematics for their IO Board designed for their DE10 Nano alternative. No sale date was given but someone commented that they plan no selling these boards before September 1st.