FPGA Replay Board

[NorthWay]

I wish someone would make an FPGA thingy that lets you do the logic upload by ethernet(something else?) from your pc.

[NorthWay]

There are plenty of FPGA development boards that let you load the core over USB from a pc. It's a matter of using a controller cpu with a USB port.

Sure, but I'd hope for something high-profile that has readily available designs that work out of the box if/when I find out I have bought an expensive brick coz I'l too lazy to get properly cracking with VHDL.

Any "SD card emulators" that lets you wire a card thing to your PC and let it behave as one?

[NorthWay]

Any "SD card emulators" that lets you wire a card thing to your PC and let it behave as one?

To sin and follow up myself:
There seems to be a new SD standard with built-in WiFi just around the corner.

I have found references to 3 products of this type
- EyeFi (not following the standard I believe, but they were out before it)
- FlashAir from Toshiba
- Flucard

They all seem very focused on sending data _out_ of the card, and not so much for getting data _in_.
I'm waiting for reviews to see if these are useable.

[NorthWay]

* Video: Yamaha YM7101 (seems pale compared even to a VIC-II)

Seriously?

512 colours, 3 playfields, lots of sprites.

Not a problem for an FPGA of course. I have several "tv-games" that are basically Megadrives with a built-in bunch of games, probably boiled down to a single chip to keep costs down. I bet they started life in an FPGA.

[NorthWay]

The day this is released with all sources for building it yourself I don't think I'll be able to hold back from ordering any longer...

[NorthWay]

If I have asked this already then nvm, but:
Has the board been designed for easy and frequent FPGA updates? I'd rather not be a disc-jockey (card-jockey?) if I ever try developing something. Thx.

[NorthWay]

060 is nice and all, but I'd rather take a daughterboard with local ram and an FPGA on.
I hope y'all have a goal of eventually outgunning an 060 with a 680x0 FPGA implementation. Giving the 060 its own local memory will give it a big advantage compared to having only (fast, but still) chip/slow/ranger memory.

[NorthWay]

but the daughterboard comes with local memory, doesnt it?

Yes. But any 680x0 implementation stuck on the non-daughterboard FPGA have to fight the chipset for memory access.

[NorthWay]

where is such an implementation in first place? what are you complaining about?

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I am not complaining, I am wishing. Any type of Amiga without >1 memory bus behaves just like the original A1000 in that the cpu has to wait for the custom chips.
I wish to see a daughtercard like the 060 one, but with an FPGA instead.

[NorthWay]

If we assume this to be a success - and it becomes the Amiga that never was available for upgrade after AGA - could we have a chance of seeing an "Amiga personality" addonn board? I'm thinking for stuff like real floppy ports, a SCSI connector (either 3000 or 4000T like), nvram if 3000 mode, clockport, and realtime clock.

[NorthWay]

Prediction: It will be shipping any minute now.

Why? Because I finally figured out how to build my own Minimig core for my C-One, so now Sod has no reason to keep me away from an FPGAArcade...
(so sorry guys, _I_ can wait even if I want one)

[NorthWay]

Perhaps there's something wrong with you?

I have a C-One. Sometimes I think that is proof enough.

[NorthWay]

Would be funky to get an A1000 mode with WOM and all.
Dragon's Lair and some hacker kickstarts are probably the only things that can use it that you can't use anyway?

[NorthWay]

having built nearly 200 boards now

Just for ****s'n'giggles, what is your very best wild shot at the interest for the board?
1000 from Amiga side? 500?
What can you see from arcade and other machines interest?

Do you have connections with the press to get reviews and get the word Out There? (Retro Gamer in particular.)