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Wayland supports X11, so no need to change. If you run XWayland, which I gather is becoming optional / not default on some distributions. If the emulator interfaces with the standard UNIX/Linux serial ports then I guess you don't need GPIO, unless people want to use the emulator as a systems develo...

I have just pushed a new version of MEMU to my GitHub repository . The main feature of this release is that the configuration dialog offers the option of MFX emulation instead of CFX-II emulation. Given that MFX is the latest & greatest expansion, I thought that was appropriate. CFX-II emulation...

For MemoFest I used Skype as that allows 24h with multiple participants with no charge.

https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/

You don't need any installation, you can just use the browser, but that does (I think) require using Edge, at least for the host.

If you have a Raspberry Pi, either a Pico or one of the Linux boards it is actually possible to reprogram the FPGA without Quartus or a USB blaster. It requires: A slightly different programming file (Raw program data, *.rpd). A custom cable. This can be made with a 10-wide DuPont cable with female ...

So it would need a nice 3D printed case.

I can imagine a very small adaptor PCB, which has edge contacts on one side, and a right angle edge plug on the other. The MFX board would then be on the left hand side (and upside down). The mirror image of how the CFX or CFX-II are mounted internally. It would mean that the SD card is the right wa...

Wonder if the Tektite font here might help: https://juanitogan.itch.io/p8-programming-fonts , has a cp1252 and a cp437 version, not sure what would be better? I took a quick look at these, but I don't think they help. The MTX requires 8x10 bitmaps, which I don't think are included there. The CP850 ...

The CTC and the PIO port were both passing mentions towards the end of the day. Perhaps why I remember them. I have made a lot of use of the CTC over the years: Both of my device programmers make use of the CTC to time the programming pulses. When I was developing my DIY Navtex receiver , the decodi...

I hadn't thought about that. My initial interest was adding back some of the capabilities that the CFX-II has (using a Propeller chip).

It may depend on how much memory is required. The MFX has 32KB of video ram.

Do you have a reference for the MSX-2 specification?

Other topics that were covered during the day include: EPROM & PIC programmers using printer port. History of CFX, Propeller video & CFX-II leading to MFX. Andy's read-only PROM disk emulator. MTX_Lib and the Code::Blocks GUI for developing Memotech programs in C. My implementation of a ZMac...