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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

63 pointsby 5h agonand2mario.github.io
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2h agoHN ↗

Will it support 31kHz video out via VGA I wonder? Would love a period-accurate PC in my superstation one.

2h agoHN ↗

I hadn’t thought of that possibility but it would indeed be fantastic!

1h agoHN ↗

I imagine it would...I haven't tried the core, but most of them maintain the original outputs over the VGA port. Even if, for some bizarre reason it didn't, you could just enable the vga_scaler and force it.

2h agoHN ↗

Tomb Raider (1996) ostensibly required a Pentium, and I remember (though memory may be faulty) the demo refusing to run on my 486. Does this FPGA 486 support the additional Pentium instructions?

1h agoHN ↗

Not require, just recommends Pentium 60 minimum. Like Quake Tomb Raider loves pipelined FPU, 30 fps on Pentium 60 vs 15 fps on 486DX2@66 and 20 on DX4@100.

1h agoHN ↗

Whoa, you took me back quite a few years there!

I really wanted a DX4@100 back then but it wasn't available in my area. I "had" to get a Pentium 60, which I was not happy about lol.

Upgraded to a Pentium 200 MMX. Whoa!

And then I also got a specific batch Celeron 300a to overclock.

"Stole" my dad's Matrox Mystique, coz what does he need a "3D" card for? Played "Destruction Derby" a lot, just coz 3D card: https://archive.org/details/dd2matrox_19961205

Wow, the times!

2h agoHN ↗

So bummed out that I wrecked the HDMI out on my MiSTer. I was trying to figure out a new monitor layout and unplugged/plugged it in a few times. I could SSH into it no problem, but no HDMI out. After peeking around on the forums, turns out that the MiSTer doesn't take kindly to that while it's still on-- I forget the technical reason. Oh well. Many, many hours of fun playing games with my son on the it, I got my money's worth.

1h agoHN ↗

Dunno which variant you bought, but the QMTech mister clones on Ali Express are affordable, work perfectly well, and come with the expanded 128MB SDRAM expansion and analog I/O board bundled up in a convenient case. I have 2 of them, along with the MiSTer Pi, and I'll probably pick up a couple more for dedicated applicaitons (3d-printed retro computer workstation, Normal/TATE mode cab builds, and a couple just to hook up to the CRTs I have lying around).

1h agoHN ↗

I had that VooDoo card- Quake 1 was amazing on it. Of course today it's not amazing.