FPGA Replay Board

[wizard66]

Maybe CED v4.2 requires all 020+ instructions and addressing modes?

The FPGA CPU is missing some features, yes?

Yes I think so, that's why i installed the 68000 version of ced.

About trying on a real amiga . I sold my real amiga's after building the minimig's so I can't test it here, sorry about that..

[wizard66]

He's still working on it.  Give him a chance.  

NO !!! times up, he hase to be ready now , no more time to waste  !!! LOL
I know i'm dreaming but it's so nice to see this nice piece of hardware.
Nice going Yaqube it looks like this board is making the replay a A4000++ Sweet :-)

[wizard66]

40 boards aren't going to satisfy 1/5th of the demand, are they?  

Nice to have the interest and I hope you can ramp up the production rate to satisfy the demand for these great boards.  I also hope that MikeJ, or someone else, comes up with a nice case design for the Replay boards, with, or without the daughtercards that will come later.

Just think about how much the interest in this board will multiply when there are more Arcade systems that it can emulate/clone, as well as other computer systems.  You might easily have several hundreds of interested buyers, if not thousands.

I think MikeJ is going to sell truckloads of his Replay board.
I already have one off the boards and the design and handeling is perfect.
I'm also bussy with a plexiglass case just I have made for the Minimig.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56991

This will include a case for the baseboard, and a case for the FPGAArcade including the daugtherboard..

[wizard66]

Sure, that is why there is so much now.  At some point you have to say, this is enough for this model.  It would be great if we could have 128 petabyte, but 32 on the basic board and 128 with the daughter card is fine.  Delaying the boards to squeeze in a little more that still won't be "enough" would have been a mistake.

The mainboard hase 64MB installed.
So the mainboard (replay) and the daughterboard together give a grant total of 192MB.
Looks enough to me.

[wizard66]

Where is the statement that it's 64 MB onboard?, last update on that issue said 32 MB asfaik.

Boy's and girls, the replay board is fitted with a 64MB RAMChip.

2  MB chip
2  MB slow (minus 512kb for kickstart just like the minimig) so you have 1.5MB left.
8  MB A2091/A590 Fastmen
48 MB XRAM usable for fastmem or chip so you can have a total of 50MB chipmem ;-)

Look @ The picture for the memory menu..

[wizard66]

@wizard66 i have amiga os3.9 installed on a sd card with rdb instead of fat and smart filesystem, will i be able to load off that? or will i need to convert my card to hdf? has to use with fpga arcade

You NEED a HDF file if you want to use a harddrive on the replay.
Make a HDF with winuae.

[wizard66]

ATX PCB adapter?

http://www.fpgaarcade.com

It's on the top op the site (realy)..

P.S O and congrads on your 1000 post ;-)

[wizard66]

I can hear the world wide cheering already :-)

Yes great stuff :-)
More FPGA Replay users !!!  Joint the club guy's we feel a bit lonely

[wizard66]

What a great news !

Could you make a video of the production run (like Gideon did for his 1541 Ultimate) ?

I'm fascinated by this robots

Yes Mike, what ever happend to the first video of the production is it lost?

[wizard66]

Congrats MikeJ,
I hope all boards are okey for you :-)
Bring out the beer guy's, more classic super amiga's have been born (LOL)

[wizard66]

Here's an idea: Manually label them with the serial number. It's cool

Just wondering, the card I got. Do you remember which serial# it is ?

There was a picture somewhere of the new replayboards with a white label on it for serial numbers espen ;-)

edit: Here it is (LOL) http://www.fpgaarcade.com/common/replay_b02_back.jpg

[wizard66]

Looks like mine is "B01 - WIZARD66"  (must be in the name or something LOL)

So mine is "B01 - DARRIN"?  Always nice to know.  

[wizard66]

What sort of specs does the arcade FPGA come with out of the box? Emulated CPU speed and RAM?

CPU : 68020 (@ 68030/50 Mhz speed)
Ram: 64MB

    Tiny size of 170x80mm, fits any mini-ITX cabinet
    Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA (1.6M Gates)
    ARM 7S256 System controller
    64 MB DDR2 DRAM
    Wolfson HI-FI quality DAC
    SD slot, DVI out, USB, PS/2 and serial connectors.
    Expansion slot for JAMMA expansion board, MC68060+ethernet board, etc

 
Input / output connections

P1 2 pin RS232 select jumber for debug (ARM or FPGA)
P2 2 pin 5V external power input
P3 32 pin IO cable expansion 1
P4 9 pinD RS232
P5 Molex 12V/5V external power input
P6 2.1mm 5V power input for wall adapter
P7 32 pin IO cable expansion 2
P8 main SAMTEC board stacking connector. Lots of IO
P9 3 pin ARM debug serial connector
P10 2 pin ARM ERASE
P11 2 pin ARM TST
P12 micro USB (for updating ARM firmware)
P13 6 pin FPGA JTAG debug
P14 5 pin USB header (parallel with P12)
P15 sub SAMTEC board stacking connector. Video+Audio+Joysticks
P16 SD card
P17 2 pin external ARM reset input
P18 2 x 9pinD enhanced joystick inputs
P19 2 pin soft reset input (parallel with S2 push button)
P20 SVHS / composite video output
P21 2 x 6pin PS2 inputs (mouse / keyboard)
P22 DVI output (HDMI + analogue video for SCART/VGA)
P23 3.5mm stereo audio output

[wizard66]

I assume that this new core is available for download somewhere on your site?  I would like to update my board to the latest developments, but I hope it is possible without wiping the other software that came on my SD Card when I got it from you.  This will be my first attempt at updating any kind of FPGA device.

I also want to upgrade my board with the new core Mike, where can we get it ?

Thanks for the support :-)

[wizard66]

It doesn't completely work yet. When I get back from China at the weekend I'll fix it and let you guys try it.
You just replace a file in the root of the SD card with the new one.
You can rename the old one and swap back whenever you wish.
/MikeJ

A big THANKS Mike, hope you get it working soon when you back at your base...

[wizard66]

Not unless the keyboard/mouse speaks PS2 protocol over USB - the converter is just a passive adapter. The new Amiga core uses a tiny microcontroller soft core to do the ps2 interface and I am looking at making it speak USB - so then a ps2/usb adapter would work with a true USB device. Something for the future.

Oh, the rear IO panels have arrived :
http://www.fpgaarcade.com

This will be 14 Euro each + shipping. Again, it's the NRE cost which hurts - after the first 100 it will drop a little. I will do another version for the daughterboard and offer a trade in

/MikeJ

It looks like it's not compatible with the Rev. B01 boards (protoboards) Mike ?
I hope to get one that will fit the rev B01 with daughtboard :-)
I want my mits on your new core !!!!!!! Mail me anytime !!!!! (hehehe)..