So far all we have seen is endless Total Recall and RoboCop GIFs, a PCB, Dreamcast running on emulation and now a case.
The original promotion got the specs of the DE-10 wrong by using the wrong Cyclone V datasheet, they believed DS would be possible only then to be told by Robert it still wouldn't fit
Their price comparison with MiSTer was highly flawed choosing to use the most expensive kit from MiSTer Add-Ons, just to make $700 look better
Atrac17 has been blocking people on social media for asking basic questions and or calling them racist . He went off on one on the official MiSTer forum a few weeks ago which was just ludicrous but was deleted in the end.
We also saw Atrac heavily promoting dual SDram for Midway/Williams cores it was "Definitive" according to one of his posts on X. Only then for Pramod to post Smash TV working on single SDram.
It's not been a good start for a new platform
We then get to part of support yes they can port all the core currently on MiSTer but that doesn't really solve anything and they need to man power to port everything. We have seen other Devs state the FPGA they are currently promoting isn't that much more powerful than the DE-10 and each different FPGA architecture counts the likes of gates etc differently so they are not 1:1
We have already know that we are reaching the limits of FPGA in terms of retrogaming in general. Systems from year 2000+ are a no go on any mass produced FPGA due to how fast CPUs progressed in complexity and frequency even some systems from the 90s are not possible like PS2 as it would require so much hard to obtain information to produce a FPGA core and software emulators can't supply enough information for FPGA.
I wish them all the best but we have seen MiSTer killers announced in the past and nothing has come of them, with the amount of people Atrac is alienating in the scene and with his overall attitude this project looks DOA but it would be nice to be proved wrong
It's taken MiSTer six years of development to get where it currently is I hope the MARS Devs are in for long haul too
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Re: Could MiSTer Rival MARS FPGA Be The New King Of Retro Gaming?
So far all we have seen is endless Total Recall and RoboCop GIFs, a PCB, Dreamcast running on emulation and now a case.
The original promotion got the specs of the DE-10 wrong by using the wrong Cyclone V datasheet, they believed DS would be possible only then to be told by Robert it still wouldn't fit
Their price comparison with MiSTer was highly flawed choosing to use the most expensive kit from MiSTer Add-Ons, just to make $700 look better
Atrac17 has been blocking people on social media for asking basic questions and or calling them racist . He went off on one on the official MiSTer forum a few weeks ago which was just ludicrous but was deleted in the end.
We also saw Atrac heavily promoting dual SDram for Midway/Williams cores it was "Definitive" according to one of his posts on X. Only then for Pramod to post Smash TV working on single SDram.
It's not been a good start for a new platform
We then get to part of support yes they can port all the core currently on MiSTer but that doesn't really solve anything and they need to man power to port everything. We have seen other Devs state the FPGA they are currently promoting isn't that much more powerful than the DE-10 and each different FPGA architecture counts the likes of gates etc differently so they are not 1:1
We have already know that we are reaching the limits of FPGA in terms of retrogaming in general. Systems from year 2000+ are a no go on any mass produced FPGA due to how fast CPUs progressed in complexity and frequency even some systems from the 90s are not possible like PS2 as it would require so much hard to obtain information to produce a FPGA core and software emulators can't supply enough information for FPGA.
I wish them all the best but we have seen MiSTer killers announced in the past and nothing has come of them, with the amount of people Atrac is alienating in the scene and with his overall attitude this project looks DOA but it would be nice to be proved wrong
It's taken MiSTer six years of development to get where it currently is I hope the MARS Devs are in for long haul too