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

wk_end•about 1 hour ago

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?

rasz•40 minutes ago

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.

shoobiedoo•about 1 hour ago

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.

hexapus•38 minutes ago

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).

throwitaway222•18 minutes ago

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

xupybd•16 minutes ago

The lack of example videos is killing me!

functionmouse•about 2 hours ago

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

hexapus•34 minutes ago

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.

mysterydip•about 1 hour ago

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

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

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