MiSTer FPGA Retro Gaming Setup

[Kruno]

You can run old games with Windows 95 by just plugging in a mouse and keyboard. This gives us access not only to games of that period, but older DOS games all running on a hardware FPGA.

The display output is apparently really good as well. Has anyone tried this?

 

[Viata]

The best way to play retro is on the original console with a CRT TV. Everything else are different levels of cope.

 

[Azdul]

Nowadays you can buy prebuilt complete MiSTer systems. But where is the fun in spending 500$+ and having machine that even comes with HDMI output ? You may as well buy PS5.

You can buy MiSTer older brother - MiST - at quarter of the price - or you can buy basic MiSTer board - and extend it yourself. And learn MUCH more about newer and older hardware that you've ever wanted to know.

MiST firmware update went wrong - and I've just spend a morning fixing soft-bricked machine using SoC programmer. Previously I had to learn a lot about CRT TVs before I've finally got a picture on screen. And study how multiple joystick buttons can be mapped to DE-9 (Atari) port.

Once hardware works more or less like you've expected - endless fun of learning quirks of hundreds of emulated machines begins. Discovering that to load a game on Spectrum 48k you need to press J, P, P, Enter is anything but trivial ...