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I knew you were a fan, but wasn't sure if you actually had one yet. I could not remember.
Not going to be getting into retro gaming with it, and was thinking more smallish RISC-V instead since it seems that the useful low end expremetal makerboards ( like BeagleV ) are being delayed again and again. At this stage i'm not going to sink 1500 bucks in a 'prototype' board, but i think the DE10 is enough to do it, with some video too. My other FPGA boards are a bit light for that beyond 'core' and i have that already on an IoT board i picked up last year. No, i dont expect to build a screaming RISC-V workstation and ditch ARM or something on a lower end commodity FPGA board, just something to play with and if it could do the other 2 decently as well, then would be extra incentive. I know it can do gaming type emulation, but id be running apps on their cores.
- ST - well we all know im an ST fan.
- 386 - I'm thinking of setting up an old VSTa system, perhaps even mess with code again. ( coming from the other thread, getting tired of the industry.. )
But emulation on my desktop will do it all, so i still have to decide if i want to spend more $ on something that will mostly sit.
I guarantee you MiSTer will do it better. There is something about bare metal that is more... tangible, more convenient, more permanent. With VMs and emulation - (which is really what emulation is... just a VM...) your machine is a *file*. You load an app, then you load a file. Paths get screwed up, files get lost, things *change*... the OS changes, the VM/Emulator changes, some patch comes along and you upgrade and suddenly paths are broken and config files are lost and you go, "I don't want to set all this shit up from scratch again." Profiles get lost. Software emulation is a hassle.
Now - all that could be said about FPGA - you've got cores, which are just files that load and program the gates to whatever architecture you want to run, and then you've got profiles that point at HD images or configure the system (how much RAM, what speed processor, what kind of video, if ethernet is enabled)... But - they're highly static and there aren't all these abstraction/translation layers that are prone to change. You're not dependent on some framework that gets updated. It is the closest you can get to having a real machine. The DE10 Nano will set you back $190... if you don't want to retrogame - you don't need a RAM card - and the Multi IO adds a fan, ethernet, and a DB15 analog VGA...
I knew you were a fan, but wasn't sure if you actually had one yet. I could not remember.
Not going to be getting into retro gaming with it, and was thinking more smallish RISC-V instead since it seems that the useful low end expremetal makerboards ( like BeagleV ) are being delayed again and again. At this stage i'm not going to sink 1500 bucks in a 'prototype' board, but i think the DE10 is enough to do it, with some video too. My other FPGA boards are a bit light for that beyond 'core' and i have that already on an IoT board i picked up last year. No, i dont expect to build a screaming RISC-V workstation and ditch ARM or something on a lower end commodity FPGA board, just something to play with and if it could do the other 2 decently as well, then would be extra incentive. I know it can do gaming type emulation, but id be running apps on their cores.
- ST - well we all know im an ST fan.
- 386 - I'm thinking of setting up an old VSTa system, perhaps even mess with code again. ( coming from the other thread, getting tired of the industry.. )
But emulation on my desktop will do it all, so i still have to decide if i want to spend more $ on something that will mostly sit.
Some sort of 'all-in-one' carrier for the DE-10, instead of buying a bunch of add-ons
http://www.heber.co.uk/product/multisystem/
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The FOSS evangelists/fundamentalists in the MiSTer community are trying to tank this project.
Some sort of 'all-in-one' carrier for the DE-10, instead of buying a bunch of add-ons
http://www.heber.co.uk/product/multisystem/
That's too bad. Room for everyone.
The FOSS evangelists/fundamentalists in the MiSTer community are trying to tank this project.
Kind of my outlook. MiSTer has gotten to a critical mass where it is mainstreaming and the toxic hordes are arriving. Before, there were hostile nerds - but now... we've got people showing up who define themselves by something ELSE before they define themselves as "retro-gamers," and that is always the death of a community.
"I'm a Black LGBT+, Communist, Retro-gamer - and I resent you gate-keeping me from this hobby with your white, male, heteronormative values!"
That's too bad. Room for everyone.
The FOSS evangelists/fundamentalists in the MiSTer community are trying to tank this project.
So which is it? The woke army or the FOSS fundamentalists? The latter are pretty easy to mess with; you just use words like "Linux" and "open source" and they tend to self-destruct.
Because it ought to be GNU/MiSTer or something.
I hope the wokey dokies don't ruin it. They ruin everything.
I get the feeling a lot of the FOSS fundamentalists are actually the Woke Army infiltrating the community with the intent of replacing the unity of a love of retro-gaming with a primary focus on Identity Politics.
Which is how they operate in every community they come in and destroy. They pick a cause that is *slightly* polarizing - and then they ratchet up the divisive rhetoric on everything until everyone is arguing on if Orcs as a Monolithically Evil Race is a proxy for black people.
Seriously. It'll start with Free and Open Source software - and eventually we'll only be talking about how old white men are the gatekeepers of the RetroGaming community.
There are definitely a lot of them among us, but they haven't taken over ... which is surprising when you consider that San Francisco exists.
Agreed.
Nice to see someone who loves Linux finally admit it instead of gaslighting me.
Fri Oct 29 2021 14:26:26 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarThere is a portion of the FOSS community that *is* woke. Basically anyone who uses Emacs and insists on calling Linux "GNU/Linux" is a pinko commie who eats Ben & Jerry's and would rather lecture you on idpol instead of taking a shower. (There, did I get enough stereotypes in?)
There are definitely a lot of them among us, but they haven't taken over ... which is surprising when you consider that San Francisco exists.
Interestingly, that particular front is not falling as fast as some others have, and that's a good thing. The shibboleths of open source software development are turning out to be a strong challenge against the shibboleths of convergence and entryism.
Or as a wise man said a long time ago: shut up and show us the code.
The nerdier the group, typically the longer it has taken to fall. Kind of went "cinema, comics, computer gaming, frp gaming..." and our level is certainly the next domino in the chain.
Funny discovery of the day:
Forward and reverse DNS still assert that uncnsrd.mt-kisco.ny.us = 66.114.78.90
That's a very old name for Uncensored and the IP address of a 768 Kbps DSL service in my old house that I stopped using for hosting in 2007 and cancelled to get a fiber upgrade in 2009.
I was sooooooo lucky to catch the small window during which the citadel.org domain was available.
I guess i lied in another room. I forgot i had a 1200XL .. A dude at work gave it to me year or so ago. I didnt really want it as i was far past done collecting, but he was sooo excited to give it to me i didnt have the heart to say no. He was like a little kid.
People used to love passing on their worthless old computers to someone they thought would love and take care of it.
Now almost everyone understands there is potential value and hits eBay and knows what it is worth - they still want YOU to have it, because they know you'll take care of it - but they want you to pay, now.
Maybe it is also because they know I can afford it. If I were a broke kid - they might give it to me.
Sun Mar 20 2022 20:08:04 EDT from Nurb432I guess i lied in another room. I forgot i had a 1200XL .. A dude at work gave it to me year or so ago. I didnt really want it as i was far past done collecting, but he was sooo excited to give it to me i didnt have the heart to say no. He was like a little kid.
A few days later i emailed the dude "you wont believe what you had, it was one of 2 prototype boards, hand wired and signed by Jack himself.. they are worth about $100k now.. Thanks! "
Of course i told him the truth shortly afterward :)
Tue Apr 12 2022 04:11:59 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusionsPeople used to love passing on their worthless old computers to someone they thought would love and take care of it.
Now almost everyone understands there is potential value and hits eBay and knows what it is worth - they still want YOU to have it, because they know you'll take care of it - but they want you to pay, now.
Maybe it is also because they know I can afford it. If I were a broke kid - they might give it to me.