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Roadmap

We are planning to improve this core steadily. The MiSTer core offers many more features than our current Release of the port. Here is a list of features (in no particular order) that we are planning to deliver at a later stage:

Feature Roadmap

  • NTSC
  • Support two drives: 8 and 9
  • Dual SID
  • Support autoswap via *.lst files
  • Support the creation of empty disk images
  • Supoprt the creation of empty config files and the migration of the config file from an older version to a newer version
  • Alternative KERNAL & Floppy Disk ROMs and fast loaders
  • Parallel C1541 port for faster (~20x) loading time using DolphinDOS
  • Utilize full 16:9 screen real estate for file- and directory browsing and core configuration on HDMI while saving screen real estate on 4:3 VGA
  • More sophisticated scalers and scandoublers
  • Simulate the blending of colours when ALM and DCM are used as described here: MiSTer-devel/C64_MiSTer#104

Technical Roadmap

To implement some of the above-mentioned features and also to improve the robustness, performance, and stability of the whole system, we will need to implement certain technical improvements in the "backend", again in no particular order:

  • Implement a remote-control mechanism via Serial/JTAG (similar to what already works on the MEGA65 core) that allows us to remote-control the C64 core so that we can for example run whole test suites remotely. If possible we should think about implementing this feature on the MiSTer2MEGA65 framework level so that all cores can benefit.
  • Add the Vice test suite to our repertoire of tests and use the above-mentioned mechanism to execute on it: https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/code/HEAD/tree/testprogs/testbench/
  • Support for R2 version of MEGA65
  • VGA retro CSync generation
  • Enhance QNICE's FAT32 stack so that it is able to create new files
  • Fix visible tearing in Bromance demo (vertical scroll effect), but only, when HDMI Zoom is ON: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=205526
  • Update to newer ascal version (wait until MiSTer does the same upstream)
  • Re-do QNICE's SD Card controller: Go from SPI to native
  • Hardware debugger (single-step the CPU via the on-screen-menu)