PlayStation Core
Robert Peip, the Playstation’s core developer, keeps working hard on the core. He’s fixed some bugs to get even more games working. CHD support is also implement and so is cheat support.
- Twitter Post: https://twitter.com/AzumFpg/status/1496902605670424576
- MiSTer FPGA Discord: https://discord.com/invite/gyRe9WC6Y2
- Playstation unstable nightlies: https://github.com/MiSTer-unstable-nightlies/PSX_MiSTer/releases/
- Developer Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FPGAzumSpass
Jotego Updates
Core developer Jotego, has given some updates on what he’s currently working on. He’s gotten 80% of the CPU instructions implemented for the Neo Geo Pocket CPU. He also continued work on the Sly Spy schematics and plans to use them, the current RoboCop core and MAME as a basis for a Slu Spy core.
- Patreon Post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/research-63047827
- Twitter posts:
- Support Jotego on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/topapate
Alpha Mission Core
On twitter, RndMnkIII has shown an FPGA implementation of SNK’s Alpha Mission arcade game. It’s early right now and not yet running on the DE10 Nano, but the plan is to port it to the MiSTer Framework.
- Twitter Posts by developer:
MiSTer Game Launcher files
MiSTer now supports a new way of launching games for almost any core. Arcade games have for a long time offered the ability to launch each game directly instead of loading a core and then loading the arcade game.
Now this feature is available to pretty much any core, by way of MiSTer Game Launcher files, or MGL for short. So you can customize your MiSTer setup to show your favorite console games before you even load a core. This works best for cores that do not require extra user interaction to load a game like the console cores. Computer cores will most likely not work well with MGL files.
- MiSTer FPGA forums post: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=45042#p45042
- MiSTer Facebook Group Post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1870135613286506/posts/2884191175214273/
Camputers Lynx 48/96 Core
A new computer core has been introduced. This core implements the Camputers Lynx 48/96. The Lynx was an 8 bit British home computer, manufactured by Camputers and based on the Z80A CPU. It was released in 1983 and from the quick research I did, the computer seemed to be pretty powerful at the time for its price of 225 pounds.
- MiSTer FPGA forum post: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=45138#p45138
- Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/t19tn2/camputers_lynx_48_96_computer_core_for_mister_fpga/
Windows NT 4 Running in AO486
A dedicated member in the MiSTer FPGA forums has managed to get Windows NT working in AO486. It’s a very involved process, but if you’re willing to do a little work you can try it out for yourself. Full instructions are in the Mister FPGA forum discussion.
- MiSTer FPGA forum discussion: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4175
- Instructions: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=44432&sid=4b5a48b4c35c0799b9f84648bf6d2b9f#p44432
- Video Driver instructions: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=44745#p44745
Other Miscellaneous MiSTer Updates
And other cores receiving miscellaneous fixes and updates are:
Atari ST, 800 and 5200
AO486
Apple II
Archie
CoCo 3
Amstrad
TI-99/4A
For a full list of the fixes and updates check out the below links:
- Archie, Atari ST, Atari 800, Atari 5200, Apple II, Amstrad:
- TI-99/A: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=44767#p44767
- MiSTer Main: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=45042#p45042
- AO486:
- CoCo 3: