Its also a anti meritocratic caste system. That desperatly tries to ignore the different academic outcomes various cultures create . So it may be racist, but at least its culture blind.
On their example page you can sometimes see what data it got to train on.
https://imgur.com/a/CuXNATp for example is without a doubt "Ragnaros" from the game "World of Warcraft".
Probably due to not having much different sources for "A fiery humanoid monster with flames burning".
but yes, it is fairly excessive if you just want to play games, emulation is absolutely "good enough" and even indistinguishable for most. We do it for the love of the hobby ;)
Replicating the physical interfaces does a lot for the quality of the emulation experience. Take, for instance, the C64 maxi: it’s physically a C64 (dimensions closer to a VIC-20, but that’s negligible) and, while the emulation is good, it feels much closer to using a cycle-accurate C64 over a PS/2 keyboard.
I don’t think the potential market for Amiga and ST keyboards for use with MiSTer justifies the investment, but I’d LOVE to see LK-411, Atari ST, Amiga, Sun, Symbolics, and other pre-PC-101 layouts as reasonably priced USB keyboards.
Also, those original components have more than 25 years-old... They can fail anytime. DE10-nano is new hardware with new components which last other 25 years at least.
Yeah, the MiSTer project is really just a loose collection of people with a loose common goal. So the true accuracy of cores does vary a lot. Most users don't really care, as long as they provide a pretty accurate experience. I think most MiSTer owners (myself included) prefer it over emulation due to having no lag. I also really like that the MiSTer does not buffer any writes, so there is no shut down. Just turn it off when you are done, allowing my setup to be very console-like.
Unfortunately the original consoles will stop working and existing outside of museums over time; I see projects like this as archival work, so that in tens, hundreds, maybe thousands of years people can still rebuild and play these games.
Someone elsewhere pointed out that PS1 disks (or any disk based system for that matter) suffers from disk rot, so likewise, what is now considered piracy should also be considered archival work since the original disks will stop working.
something something entropy, something something the inexorable passage of time.
very same fpga chip alone is more expensive than DE-10 nano https://octopart.com/5cseba6u23i7n-intel+%2F+altera-88365716 Be sure to send your thanks to EC, FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ. Altera and Xilinx mergers clearly were super beneficial to customers and the market, competition has never been better with both competing by rising prices and cutting volume in unison.
But I wouldn't place too much blame on the companies - COVID wrecked a lot of supply chains as well - as anyone who runs emulators on RPis will be able to confirm.
Covid showed companies new way forward. Cut supply and bump prices, this is the source of all semi shortages. There was no earthquake, no one ran out of rare ingredients, corporations simply cut fab orders.
rpi shortage is a direct result of Broadcom (Avago) deciding to stop manufacturing chips that dont generate hundreds of millions in revenue a year. FPGAs were same deal, post merger Xilinx/Altera cut manufacturing.
AFAIK, an FPGA board is not enough, you also need the "compiled netlist" from the Verilog files, clock configuration and routing info, tailored to the specific FPGA/board you choose.
Kinda, sorta? This is like saying "a computer is not enough, you need a binary." What's here is the source code in Verilog. Once this is compiled by a Verilog toolchain, this produces a netlist (set of gates) which is synthesized into an actual bitstream (proprietary gate configuration file) for a specific FPGA hosted on a specific board.
In this case, the project isn't very documented but it looks like fairly generic Verilog without a lot of vendor specific extensions. So, what you need is a Verilog toolchain which can synthesize the source code into a netlist, and then into a bitstream, and the right set of extra code to target an actual physical piece of hardware.
But, the overall setup looks pretty simple and generic, so it should (hopefully) be possible to synthesize to your board of choice by reimplementing run.v and memstubs.v towards an actual hardware configuration.
Basically what you'd want to do to start trying to run this on real hardware is to build a hosting environment which wired the inputs and outputs from `md_board.v` into the real hardware provided in your environment, possibly by integrating other soft-IP (ie - you could attach a cartridge emulator of some sort to the cartridge lines, your choice of video encoder to the video output, and so on).
Aka the software that comes with the FPGA vendor. I think Intel, AMD, the Chinese vendors and some parts from Microchip have the software available for free.
Parallel, and much worse. Everyone out in the software land with their open languages, free compilers, and package repositories doesn't know how bad it is in FPGA land.
Since forever. There are a few reasons why - one is cultural the other is risk. On the cultural side industries that are "controversial" tend to be avoided. Payment processors don't like to be associated with porn, gambling, drugs etc. because of potential negative PR. If you're a payment processor and trying to land big conservative clients, having press about how you support the porn industry doesn't do you any favors.
The other side is risk, meaning industries that have an above average chargeback (fraud) rate. Many times these industries overlap - porn for instance. Lots of stolen credit card numbers are used to by porn, but also legitimate purchases can easily end up as a chargeback. The classic example is that someone buys porn on their credit card and then their partner finds out. Instead of admitting they bought porn, they claim someone must have stolen their credit card to save face.
I’d upvote this if I could. Chargebacks aren’t impossible after paying via bank transfer - it might be called another name, but it has been done before to us by a scammer (but we can dispute and fight it). And one time after a customer added an extra 0 to their transfer and immediately tried to get their bank to claw it back without contacting us.
But we basically never had issues with chargebacks. Even when we used PayPal and Stripe for two years, we only had two chargebacks and we disputed one of them and won through PayPal as we proved it was fraudulent.
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