Month: January 2019

If you’re wondering what kinds of joysticks and controllers can be used with the MiSTer, we hope to compile a confirmed list to save you from a headache.  In the meantime, a user from the Atari forums has claimed that…

The DE10-Nano MiSTer has a single OTG USB port.  You’ll probably want to split the OTG port so you can use a keyboard, mouse or game controller, and maybe a WIFI dongle or USB drive.  If you’re just wanting to…

The MiSTer Amiga core was derived from the works of Dennis van Weeren, Jakub Bednarski, Jakub Bednarski, Rok Krajnc. The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model was part of a wave…

The MiSTer Altair 8800 core was derived from the works of Fred VanEijk and Cyril Venditti. The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was…

The MiSTer Acorn Archimedes core was derived from the works of Stephen J. Leary. The Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge and sold in the late-1980s to mid-1990s, Acorn’s first general-purpose…

The MiSTer NES Core was derived from the works of Ludvig Strigeus. The Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES for short) is an 8-bit home video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It is a remodeled export version of the…

The MiSTer Donkey Kong core was derived from the works of Daniel Wallner. The original arcade Donkey Kong game was created when Shigeru Miyamoto was assigned by Nintendo to convert Radar Scope, a game that had been released to test…

The DE10-nano board has a console port. The console allows you to login into Linux without a network connection and also provides some debug/info which is sometimes useful to track any problems. Refer to the UART-to-USB (USB mini type B)…

Enable WiFi connection locate the file linux/_wpa_supplicant.conf open in text editor supporting Linux/Unix line endings (for example Notepad++) replace put_your_SSID_here with your actual WiFi network name and put_your_password_here with your WiFi password. rename _wpa_supplicant.conf to wpa_supplicant.conf reboot the MiSTer In…

Currently, this very popular FPGA board is required as the base unit for the MiSTer system. Numerous daughter boards can be added to run most of the available MiSTer cores.  Is the DE10-Nano the only FPGA device that will run…