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MiSTer FPGA News – PC88, Play Video’s on MiSTer, SNES Save States & More

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Video Player Using Zaparoo

spark2k06 has created a way to launch movies using Zaparoo (previously called TapTo). This means that you can launch movies on your MiSTerFPGA using NFC cards. The ARM SOC on the DE10 Nano isn’t powerful enough to play high resolution content so you will be limited to low resolutions like 320×240. However, that low res content looks great on a CRT.

Check the MiSTerFPGA forum post to get the details on setting it up.

 

NetBSD on AO486 core

User hsnewman on the MiSTerFPGA forums has been able to get the Unix-like operating system NetBSD working on the AO486 core. NetBSD is a free Unix-like Open Source operating system that is available for a wide range of platforms.

A ready made virtual hard disk is available for download from archive.org to get you up and running right away.

 

USB-C to 5v barrel adapter

Retro Frog released their USB-C to 5v barrel adapter. This will let you power either the DE10 Nano or QMTech FPGA boards over USB-C.

 

Plex Content on MiSTer

Christoph Helms on Twitter, developed a Plex client to stream video content from your Plex Media Server to your MiSTer FPGA. Again, you will be limited to low res content but, Plex can transcode your media to a format that MiSTerFPGA can handle.

 

Taki Udon Interview

Taki Udon did and interview with Aidin Walls that goes into his experience with product development, ethics in open source hardware, production issues, some personal life questions and more.

Some of the interview goes into the MiSTer Pi, but it is not exclusively about the MiSTer Pi.

 

Konami Bubble System Core

Another update to the beta Konami Bubble System core was released. On the post Raki mentions, that this core encodes and decodes the original data. It’s an ineffecient method, but that’s the way the original system worked.

The core is only available to Patreon subscribers during the beta phase and also Bubble System Gradius is not supported, however the GX400 version of Gradius is playable on the MiSTerFPGA.

 

SNES Save States

The SNES test core with save states, recently got an update. Here is what’s included:

-The savestates.bin file is now auto loaded as boot1.rom. This requires latest unstable Main.
-Fixed first state load, after core load.
-Add DSP cart support

 

MiSTer Laggy

The MISTerLaggy core has been updated with the latest features.

– sys was updated to support new IO boards
– An option to test the left or right side of the screen was added
– There are now some markers at the edge of the screen so auto-resizing displays don’t get triggered
– And the misterkun mascot was added.

 

PC88

yosinda and wwark updated the PC88 core. Here is what changed:

-“ddmode” was added for the double track
-There are improvements to the floppy disk controller (read and write modes were mentioned for this update)
-A menu to set where to connect Sound Board 2 was added.
-Thanks to one of Jotego’s sound module, the OPNA sound chip should be complete
-The F11 key has been assinged to “HELP”
-Mouse support was added
-And there should be improved graphics