Cool to see another SGI guy around here. Welcome to the list. Im scheduled to pick up a couple of Tezro's next month along with some related hardware and software. ill post back with some pictures to show what I pick up.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96 > > I recently picked up one of these devices. I'll apologize in advance if > you folks have already had a discussion about the MiST. Basically, it's an > FPGA that's capable of emulation (for lack of a better term) of many > platforms on a hardware level. I only got mine about two weeks ago, and I'm > still sifting through a ton of material and focused mainly on the Amiga and > ST platforms (stuff I played with as a pre-teen and teen). I have to say, > so far it's pretty awesome. > > The coolest feature in my opinion is the standard joystick ports on the > side that "just work" with all the emulation targets. I always favored > using Sega Genesis controllers in those (rather than the rinky-dink little > "red joystick" of the time). They work oh-so-great with this rig. > > The only issue is finding a monitor that doesn't have a fit over 15Khz > refresh rates. I use an NEC MultiSync with sync-on-green and all that fun > stuff. I'm still busy getting AROS running on "my Amiga" (which is > represented by an SD card with my ROM image from my A3000 and a metric > crapton of floppy images). > > You basically hit a keystroke or joystick combo and you can swap floppies, > reboot, etc.. If you are into any of these, I can recommend the MiST: > > * ST/STE (also on SCART 15KHz) > * Amiga 500/600/1200 ( AGA CORE BETA core) > * C64 (partially - still developed) > * Atari 8bit ( 96%) > * Collecovision > * ZX81 > * Atari 2600 > * ZX Spectrum with AY, aslo with DIVMMC and ESXDOS > * SEGA GENESIS > * Apple II(x) > * MSX > * AMSTRAD CPC (BETA) > * A few others, you'll want to check. > > > BTW, I'm new to the list (1st post). So, I'll introduce myself. I'm > just another IT worker with a background in Unix systems. I'm 41 and I > started with HP-UX 10.x (high school) and branched out to every kind of > Unix box I could get my hands on (Yes. I'm one of those Unix zealots, but > that might be too gentle a description). I spent the 90's with SGIs (which > I still collect, I have an O2+, two Indys, and a bruzin' Tezro fully built > out). I spent the early 2k's coding for supper as a "security engineer" > (read: writing exploits which I don't much care for now) and some stints as > a Tru64 admin. On the in between gigs and contracts I've touched just about > everything (and in the last 10 years a lot of new Unix hardware). I've > professionally admin'd or coded for IRIX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64 (OSF/1 or > Digital Unix for some), FreeBSD, HP-UX, UNICOS, and AIX. As a hobbyist, > I've also tinkered greatly with NetBSD (maybe my favorite), OpenBSD, and > Minix. Then of course there is the spacey or rare stuff I've put hands on. > I'm talking about things like UnixWare, Xenix, SCO, SunOS, BSDi, DG/UX, > NeXTStep/OpenStep, A/UX, and even non-Unix stuff like Sprite, L4, QNX, > HURD, BeOS, Haiku, AROS, Genode, and others. I code fairly well in C, shell > script, and TCL. I code not-as-well in AREXX, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, and a > few other scripting languages. I'm pleased to be on this list, and to make > your myriad acquaintances. > > -Swift > > PS: My spell checker needs and ex-lax after going insane over this email > full of Unix variants and ancient platforms. >
