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It is interesting to see where MiSTer community will be going, the DE-10 Nano board that forms the core of the system is very long on the tooth and also quite e

by zokier 2y ago

It is interesting to see where MiSTer community will be going, the DE-10 Nano board that forms the core of the system is very long on the tooth and also quite expensive for what it is. But for ecosystem as complex as MiSTer shifting platforms is immense task.

lexlash 2y ago
Cheap clones of the DE-10 Nano ($99 target) are allegedly on the way along with new boards that make different tradeoffs with the pins. Should be interesting - there’s a lot of life left (PSX/N64/Saturn are all very recently added) imo but the price and availability issues are unfortunate.
- rbanffy 2y ago
  The MisTER family was always a bit expensive for the benefit it provides compared to software emulators. It is a tool for extreme fidelity, the kind of which you want when you are driving original hardware, but that’s a need few people have.
  - bluescrn 2y ago
    It's about reducing latency between input and output more than improving emulation precision.
    - makapuf 2y ago
      Indeed. A CRT and noise making floppy disks are higher on my point of view for amiga fidelity than bettzr than cycle perfect emulation.
  - nxobject 2y ago
    IIRC, the platform was built off development/evaluation boards that was primarily targeted towards the education market, anyway, where bells and whistles are a priority. It looks like the platform here is a low-frills one from a company that isn't Altera, Xilinx, or Lattice. Good! I'm glad there's some competition.
- MegaDeKay 2y ago
  Not only a $99 clone, but a $15 128K RAM expansion that is basically a must-have.
riedel 2y ago
Getting from more than 200 EUR/USD down to less than 50 is a big deal IMHO, but also just the availability of of the Tang boards is so much better. This is at a point where it starts to be fun again for an average hardware enthusiast to play around again with different hardware emulations. I own both a real Amiga 500 and a MIST box. While pure software emulation might be great by now, it just deals so much more real on hardware (with my old micro switch joysticks).

by zokier 2y ago

lexlash 2y ago

Cheap clones of the DE-10 Nano ($99 target) are allegedly on the way along with new boards that make different tradeoffs with the pins. Should be interesting - there’s a lot of life left (PSX/N64/Saturn are all very recently added) imo but the price and availability issues are unfortunate.

rbanffy 2y ago
The MisTER family was always a bit expensive for the benefit it provides compared to software emulators. It is a tool for extreme fidelity, the kind of which you want when you are driving original hardware, but that’s a need few people have.
- bluescrn 2y ago
  It's about reducing latency between input and output more than improving emulation precision.
  - makapuf 2y ago
    Indeed. A CRT and noise making floppy disks are higher on my point of view for amiga fidelity than bettzr than cycle perfect emulation.
- nxobject 2y ago
  IIRC, the platform was built off development/evaluation boards that was primarily targeted towards the education market, anyway, where bells and whistles are a priority. It looks like the platform here is a low-frills one from a company that isn't Altera, Xilinx, or Lattice. Good! I'm glad there's some competition.
MegaDeKay 2y ago
Not only a $99 clone, but a $15 128K RAM expansion that is basically a must-have.

riedel 2y ago

Getting from more than 200 EUR/USD down to less than 50 is a big deal IMHO, but also just the availability of of the Tang boards is so much better. This is at a point where it starts to be fun again for an average hardware enthusiast to play around again with different hardware emulations. I own both a real Amiga 500 and a MIST box. While pure software emulation might be great by now, it just deals so much more real on hardware (with my old micro switch joysticks).