Miss 1200 complete FPGA

[sharpied79]

Anyone have experience of the Miss 1200 from 8bitsforever?

This board is now back in the mix of my thinking but I am aware that as it is based on MiST (not MiSTer) there are some limitations (such as no shared folder support, no access via SAMBA, no RTG, etc)

Just wondering if I can live without.

Edit:

Just to say that MiST has RTG and shared folder support.
Also 'AmigaVision' which features heavily on the MiSTer forum works fine on MiST.

If you don't know, this is the main hang out place for MiST:

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewforum.php?f=115

Also, do you know about the MiST boards and their clones?

As another point, can you, like MiSTer access the sd-card via an external method such as SAMBA or FTP?

Does MiST support an Ethernet/IP connection (via USB to Ethernet adapter)?

I have seen a few people mention this does work (with the right adapter)?

 

[Adonay]

Is this the same as the mistress io board for the Mist board ?

Did see a video on youtube were a guy built a system based on that .
mistress build

 

[sharpied79]

Is this the same as the mistress io board for the Mist board ?

Did see a video on youtube were a guy built a system based on that .
mistress build

No, it's a complete FPGA but based on MiST (EP4CE22)

 

[YouKnowWho]

@sharpied79 - so, always, this all comes down to logic cells/logic elements as this limits the capability of the FPGA.

EP4CE22 is 22,320
EP3C25 is 24,624
DE-10 Nano (MISTer) - 110,000

The Bigger the FPGA logic cell/logic element count, the more fun you can have. Key with MISTer also is the community is huge, and they've all settled that they develop for MISTer. So...core selection is bonkers-awesome and constantly getting bigger and better.

 

[Adonay]

That board looks to be a good deal .

 

[YouKnowWho]

@Adonay, I say bite the bullet and get the MISTer, otherwise you'll just want it anyway and whatever you bought will be wasted.

Also, FYI - there is the UnAmiga, with an FPGA that has 55,000 logic cells, which results in a more capable/faster Amiga.

UnAmiga A500 Header compatible with A500 and CheckMate 1500 – V1.5 – Arananet RetroProducts

www.arananet.net

...but...trust me, you want the MISTer DE-10 Nano. Otherwise you'll just spend your life finding out all the things MISTer DE-10 can do, that your little FPGA can't. Or your AMD FPGA can't.

 

[Adonay]

Thanks .

@Adonay, I say bite the bullet and get the MISTer, otherwise you'll just want it anyway and whatever you bought will be wasted.

Also, FYI - there is the UnAmiga, with an FPGA that has 55,000 logic cells, which results in a more capable/faster Amiga.

UnAmiga A500 Header compatible with A500 and CheckMate 1500 – V1.5 – Arananet RetroProducts

www.arananet.net

...but...trust me, you want the MISTer DE-10 Nano. Otherwise you'll just spend your life finding out all the things MISTer DE-10 can do, that your little FPGA can't. Or your AMD FPGA can't.

@YouKnowWho Thank you for the input just to be clear i do not need to buy more stuff right now have 2 1200 systems one with pistorm 32 and the other with an icedrake . But i may build that clear case for fun but afraid it wont be used enough .

@sharpied79 hope you found some inspiration i don't know much about the MISTer project i do know that everyone that has such a system seem happy with it.

 

[YouKnowWho]

@YouKnowWho Thank you for the input just to be clear i do not need to buy more stuff right now have 2 1200 systems one with pistorm 32 and the other with an icedrake . But i may build that clear case for fun but afraid it wont be used enough .

@Adonay - for sure. Just a general suggestion for anyone considering.

 

[Higgy]

Anyone have experience of the Miss 1200 from 8bitsforever?

This board is now back in the mix of my thinking but I am aware that as it is based on MiST (not MiSTer) there are some limitations (such as no shared folder support, no access via SAMBA, no RTG, etc)

Just wondering if I can live without.

Just to say that MiST has RTG and shared folder support.
Also 'AmigaVision' which features heavily on the MiSTer forum works fine on MiST.

If you don't know, this is the main hang out place for MiST:

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewforum.php?f=115

 

[sharpied79]

Just to say that MiST has RTG and shared folder support.
Also 'AmigaVision' which features heavily on the MiSTer forum works fine on MiST.

If you don't know, this is the main hang out place for MiST:

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewforum.php?f=115

Yes, I discovered RTG but couldn't find anything for shared folders?

 

[sharpied79]

Just to say that MiST has RTG and shared folder support.
Also 'AmigaVision' which features heavily on the MiSTer forum works fine on MiST.

If you don't know, this is the main hang out place for MiST:

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewforum.php?f=115

Also, do you know about the MiST boards and their clones?

As another point, can you, like MiSTer access the sd-card via an external method such as SAMBA or FTP?

Does MiST support an Ethernet/IP connection (via USB to Ethernet adapter)?

I have seen a few people mention this does work (with the right adapter)?

 

[Higgy]

I saw you sent me a PM. I will try to put info here, then others might benefit.

I just checked my 'drawers of Doom' and I did buy a Ethernet-USB adapter but I have never used it.
Also the shared folder does not get much use from me. As I generally have a downloaded Amiga image e.g. Amiga vision or 'Zebs Facebook' and then the only thing I really might add is demos.
So I just mount the SD card in WinUAE and copy files from my PC to the Amiga HD image.

Same with my actual Amiga's. I just put the Compact Flash card into PC and copy across files with WinUAE.

 

[sharpied79]

I saw you sent me a PM. I will try to put info here, then others might benefit.

I just checked my 'drawers of Doom' and I did buy a Ethernet-USB adapter but I have never used it.
Also the shared folder does not get much use from me. As I generally have a downloaded Amiga image e.g. Amiga vision or 'Zebs Facebook' and then the only thing I really might add is demos.
So I just mount the SD card in WinUAE and copy files from my PC to the Amiga HD image.

Same with my actual Amiga's. I just put the Compact Flash card into PC and copy across files with WinUAE.

Ok thanks. To be honest I know I can just setup a second HDF file that I can create in Amiberry and place any files I need in there so a shared folder function from the sd card isn't really necessary.

Thanks for having a look though.

 

[Higgy]

I was just going through the MiST forum and with regards to the Shared Folder, and I found this from 2021. There seems to be an issue if you use a exFAT formatted SDcard which I now do because my HDF is 32gb.
But it sounds like there is a solution:

You can still create a second FAT32 partition, and use it with FAT95.
BTW, there's not much point to use exFAT, if you're not going to use big HDF files.

MiST also has HD and Floppy sounds, I don't think MiSTer has implemented this feature.