I'm from '73 and in my household was the ZX81, the ZX Spectrum, the C64, the Amiga, the SNES and a bit of DOS and early Windows. I sold of all stuff in the 90's to get by. After a while I became interested in emulating the machines from my upgrowing. Particularly the Amiga but emulating it was never satisfying for me. One day I ran across the MIST and was thrilled about getting an fpga Amiga with joystick ports and midi. Time passed while I considered an investment but then came the evolved MISTer. The MIST people didn't like it and I waited. Now, 1.5 years into ownership I can say this is the ultimate retro computing time machine :D Buyers will be occupied for the rest of their natural lives.

Nice! I'm definitely interested in it.

Thanks for sharing the details, I much rather have your opinion / perspective on this than from others. 😎

I worried about the past tense of the title, but great review! This certainly is no has-been like those "atari flashback" or my OpenPandora 😁 The development on this FPGA dev board is full steam ahead! BTW that's why plugging things in may seem awkward, if you're not used to prototyping on development boards. It was designed for proof of concept of all projects with that FPGA chip not just MiSTer

MiSTer is certainly interesting. The Crusader games were great. I would like to do Pentium or Pentium II type stuff.

Hi, i am new here in MiSTer thing, before purchasing i knew the first thing i would do was replacing that eye killing wallpaper, and so i did! ;p

Yes, the MiSTer is all that and a cup of tea. I've had two setup for over a year now. Both are in custom aluminum cases and decked out with IO board, USB Hub board and 128MB SD RAM. Of course you can get by with no added SD RAM for most cores. So far, I only know of a very few Neo Geo games that require 128MB SD RAM. I wanted as much SD RAM as possible to help "future proof" my setups. If I had to get rid of all my retro gaming consoles (even the clones from Analogue & a fully custom stainless steel cased Neo Geo) my MiSTer units would be the very lost to go. They can replace anything "retro" I'm interested in before the PS1 and hopefully they will have a PS1 core in the future. The MiSTer project is very much alive. Constantly growing and getting better by the week.

Nice video.

Great video. Such an amazing product. This is something I’ve always wanted but can only dream about owning one. Here in South Africa it would cost me one months salary with the exchange rate. Please if you or anyone reading this has a demo unit or a unit you don’t want and are willing to sell it for a lesser price please let me know.

If you like the Atari ST you should try the Amiga. Graphically they're very similar but the sound of the Amiga is on another planet. It's like comparing regular PC audio with a PC equipped with a Roland MT32.

The MiSTer is a fantastic piece of kit and the community is bringing out new cores and updates to existing cores regularly. Since buying one last year I've got rid of all bar 2 original machines

If your playing games older than Street Fighter like I am, golden age arcade games & home computers, I feel there are better accessories to spend money on than the MiSTer for the kind of games I'm into. Instead, spent the money on what's really important. A great CRT monitor, and proper controls for all the games you care about. With this in mind, I've built 4 MAME cabs and have modular changable control panels with almost all the classics. I also have vintage arcade cabinets. Perfectly satisfied with the vast majority of the way the games are already emulated in software. And improvements are made all the time. This option gives me the widest variety of software I can run, and is the most economical. There will be some specific titles that aren't emulated well, and I'm certain, there are many titles not emulated as well for the MiSTer as what exists in software. But for specific titles, the MiSTer may be the way to go, likewise, as software emulation would be the best way to go on other titles not available for MiSTer. Far more programming is made for software emulation and I feel MiSTer would limit me more.

The answer is always yes! How much would it cost to get each system, mod them for HDMI or RGB / Component, and have a flash cart or ODE for each? Then add the cost of each arcade board, computer and working computer drives and mods for each for analog RGB and HDMI. Then you factor in you don't need a component or scart switch and you can transport all of this in one easy package that can easily fit in a backpack and go to any hotel or convention with ease. Then you add all of the new cores being worked on that add value after you get it making your purchase even more worth it. Since I got mine I got NeoGeo, Sega CD, GBA, TurboCD, Atari Lynx/7800 and tones of arcade cores. So it like herpes is the gift that keeps on giving and is infectious to the point where everyone should have one.

press F1 when on the main screen to change the background image, that is if you don't like the snow :)

Was the KZfaqr you were thinking off Pezz82? :)

The STs mouse is like that on the real thing too

Do they have the Roland mt32 fully simulated? I can’t play old dos Sierra games with out true mt32 sound.

playing the mister is cheaper but you can also use it in combo with the original systems buy the games & so that they won't wear out rip them & play them on the mister

What’s the game with the wireframe skull at 0:40? Anybody knows?

I actually didn't know this was a thing on the MiSTer. I'm not much of a PC gamer, but this would be nice to tinker with.

ah 8bitdo those are some good controllers sadly your sn30 you can't get those anymore from what i heard 8bitdo does not make them anymore