Everybody needs an all-consuming hobby during COVID-19 and mine is the MiSTer FPGA gaming thing. It's like a RetroPie but 5x as expensive.
Ha! Yeah, I've been throwing my money into the raging fires of expanding my retro PC game collecting as well as getting into Amiga stuff.
I have one of the last revisions of the original MISTs and although I've only dabbled with a few cores on it, I've been *incredibly* impressed.
The emulation is so nice, the ease of use features so convenient. It really does almost everything I'd want it to do with ease. It's awesome. I'll probably eventually move to a MISTer (or whatever FPGA is all the rage by then) at some point and use it as my primary means of retro computer emulation.
I am interested in the MISTer as well. Seems like I could put all my retroemulation eggs in that basket. I have an old NES and TG16 that I don't usedue to lack of space...this thing could replace those as well. Seems like ahome run.
Everybody needs an all-consuming hobby during COVID-19 and mine is the MiSTer FPGA gaming thing. It's like a RetroPie but 5x as expensive.[...]
Because of how it works, emulation can be more accurate than traditional software-based, especially with regards to timing. The big sell for me is how seamlessly it works on CRT monitors like my Trinitron I basically trash-picked.
Someone once indicated that it might make better hardware to emulate a DOS PC on than any other. Talked about setting up a DOS BBS on it. Never
heard anything else about that, but it sounded interesting enough to consider investing in one. I have too much hardware as is right now, though.
I don't know enough about the specifics, but I can say that they have a 486core the MiSTer now. Simulating the 486 accurately has been hard, so it'sbasically a slow 486 with lots and lots of cache to help speed it
up. Doessupport a virtual serial port.
Picking up and old 486 might be the best bet still.
Yeah! While I'm intrigued by the idea, it's honestly still so easy to dealwith x86 stuff on a modern machine. Taking advantage of and supplementingbuilt-in compatibility in Windows, VMs can work incredibly well depending onyour exact needs, and I was quite impressed when I dabbled with PCem recently,for instance. That said, when it comes to gaming I still vastly prefer usingthe real hardware, and a solid FPGA
core could really close that gap.
I have a compaq portable III 386 and if g00r00 would compile a dos
version of Mystic I would so run it on it. Gas Plasma display and all.
I'd call it an alpha release, personally. Promising but not ready for prime tim
yet.
I need to win the lottery so I can quit my job and invest my time in
these moreimportant tasks, like making a DOS Mystic!
I need to win the lottery so I can quit my job and invest my time in these moreimportant tasks, like making a DOS Mystic!
Yes, great life strategy. Some of us would benefit from this.
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On a side note, I do think running Mystic on my glass plasma Compaq Portable III 386 would be a feat onto itself. You would have to include some sort of screen blanker so that the gas plasma won't overheat my office.
Portable III 386 would be a feat onto itself. You would have to include some sort of screen blanker so that the gas plasma won't overheat my office.
I forgot to mention the old DOS versions did have a screen saver,
actually!
I do wonder if I could get Mystic to run in DOS sometimes...
I'm just some kind of weird masochist who seems to like trying to make thingsin DOS bend to his will.
I'm just some kind of weird masochist who seems to like trying to mak thingsin DOS bend to his will.
Get it running on an Amiga, then I would be impressed.
Hahaha well I do know at some point I want to venture into the ST/Amiga programming space so who knows what could come of that tomfoolery.
At the very least try my hand at reverse engineering some the respective platforms BBS doors.
your exact needs, and I was quite impressed when I dabbled with PCem recently, >for instance. That said, when it comes to gaming I still vastly prefer using >the real hardware, and a solid FPGA core could really close that gap.
IIRC, PCem lacks serial support, which is the only reason I have not attempting to use it for any BBS projects. I have heard it works great forother applications, though.
90% of BBS doors are written in REXX, really easy to reverse engineer seeingthat they are all scripts.
Ha cool, I had no idea since I don't know how anything looks on the
system side of BBS software on any other platform then DOS really. I
guess I should really just explore it sometime, when I have time again.
IIRC, PCem lacks serial support, which is the only reason I have not attempting to use it for any BBS projects. I have heard it works great for other applications, though.
You can hack together a networking configuration and potentially do
some BBS stuff with that, but yeah, I believe serial is still
unsupported unfortunately. IIRC, the last time I used it, it was for testing out the speed of some Pascal code I was working on and was too lazy to deal with moving over to my actual machine (which takes very little effort, but I'm just *that* lazy. heh)
I wish someone came up with a reliable way of getting voip and modems to play nice. I would love to get one of my old 286 or 386 machines up and runnning with a true DOS setup.
Any reason you couldn't use a WiFiModem232? They plug into a typical serialport, but tunnel the connect through IP. I've used that to get my old Apple IIeonline.
I wish someone came up with a reliable way of getting voip and modems to play nice. I would love to get one of my old 286 or 386 machines up and runnning with a true DOS setup.
While I know plenty of people have played with it and even had a little luck,if anyone ever finds a way to REALLY nail it, I'd definitely jump
on thebandwagon and add a dial-up node as well as do some outbound. For now deviceslike the Wifi232, WiModem232, GuruModem, etc. do a pretty
fair job atemulating the experience, at least.
Any reason you couldn't use a WiFiModem232? They plug into a typical serial por
but tunnel the connect through IP. I've used that to get my old Apple IIe onli
ne.
I think he wants the dial-up option, too?
I think he wants the dial-up option, too?
Correct. I have a plethora of various wifi to 232 devices, what I really wan is a 100% authentic setup, Frontdoor and all.
Not D'Bridge? Bah.
Not D'Bridge? Bah.
If it runs on a 286 or 386, then sure. Probably gonna be easier to get supportthan Frontdoor.
Not D'Bridge? Bah.
If it runs on a 286 or 386, then sure. Probably gonna be easier to get suppo than Frontdoor.
On a 286/386 with DOS 5 and a basic Netbeui driver and setup in "workstation" mode, it will work with full functionality to toss mail on SMB shares and/orsee shared BinkD directories from another system, ie.
if your intention is just to have a slave PC to serve dialup while BinkD happens on another. I didnot test any native BinkD for DOS.
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