Hi, and welcome to my page where I cover the gadgets I make and sell.
Updates and random info below. I also post a few updates on https://twitter.com/IrkenLabs.
Winter Update - Happy 2021
- Category: News News
- Published: 24 February 2021 24 February 2021
- Created: 30 December 2020 30 December 2020
- Last Updated: 24 February 2021 24 February 2021
A long overdue winter update! My lab is now operational and there is actual r&d happening :)
MiSTer!
I'm happy to report that the JVS-PAC 2 and MiSTer are now friends, and it makes for a very easy and nice setup! I've added a tutorial on getting a MiSTer up and running in the JVS-PAC 2 section. To make things more plug and play, I've updated the default key-mapping for Player 2 Button 5 to "E", which is the MAME standard and also used in Jotego's fantastic cores e.g. the CPS1 - i.e. no complicated merging/unmerging of devices or remapping of input.
If you already have the JVS-PAC 2, all you need in addition to the DE10-nano is an SDRAM module.
For Jamma cabinets, a little more hardware is involved in making the DE10-Nano cabinet friendly, but I'm confident there be solutions for that soon :)
Stock Levels
Stock levels are healthy, and I don't expect that to change anytime soon.
Fall update 2020
- Category: News News
- Published: 20 September 2020 20 September 2020
- Created: 20 September 2020 20 September 2020
- Last Updated: 20 September 2020 20 September 2020
There has been close to zero R&D last few months, and it will unfortunately continue like that until sometime in December. I started a new job this summer, and right now I'm in the middle of moving out of our apartment in the city centre to a proper house with garden on the outside. I will miss having coffee shops and stores minutes away by foot, but look forward to having a dedicated office/lab, garage, garden etc. As if that wasn't enough, I'm also getting my drivers license and a car, which is kind of a thorough process here in Norway. Anyway, I expect to be done with all of this in December.
Store closing 1 - 15 October
I'm away on business a couple of weeks, and instead of getting a backlog of unshipped orders I will simply close the online store the first weeks of October. The store will likely also close for a week or two in November.
MiSTer?
I've gotten a few emails about JVS-PAC 2 not working with MiSTer, and I can confirm it is indeed problematic at this point. I got a MiSTer setup myself, and I'm positive that it will work some time in the future.
A possible fix/workaround will be to implement the planned gamepad mode for the JVS-PAC 2, but given all the problem-reports I've been reading for a lot of different devices this is just a theory. A good test to check if a setup is working properly is to load up a 2 player 6 button game, enter test mode and press all buttons for all players at the same time, while move the joysticks around. I expect this simple test would reveal issues with a lot of MiSTer setups..
From my perspective, the problem is mostly with the input model of MiSTer, they could learn a couple of lessons form the MAME project..
Stock levels
Except the A1 scaler, no stock shortage in sight for the foreseeable future. I've initiated another run of the A1 scalers, but may run out of stock until it's completed.
Website moved to a new server
- Category: News News
- Published: 04 August 2020 04 August 2020
- Created: 04 August 2020 04 August 2020
- Last Updated: 04 August 2020 04 August 2020
Everything looks like it's working OK, PLEASE let me know if you spot any errors.