MiniMig with AGA

[Linde]

I have to say this is quite nice stuff. Now it just needs the 020 core.

I think MikeJ has a nice and fast 030 core in the works.

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Sign me up for one as well as long as it was under $300AUD (around $280US), if possible.

Last I heard, Mike was aiming for "(much) less" than €200, so your price requirement gives some room for miscalculations.

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Not to mimic the "Forget hardware, just run UAE" crowd, but why would we want to use a hard wired processor when we can use an FPGA?

My sentiments exactly. Fast, reliable, future proof; all things good minus all things bad. As far as I understand, the 030 core will be able to maintain a high clock speed (faster than any 030 accelerator).

[Linde]

What with native high resolution support and drivers, it would be nice if you could implement an AHI compatible 16-bit sound interface, too. Things like Hivelytracker, AmigaAMP, etc in 16 bits would then be supported.

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I really think the developers would be better off expanding the AGA core to support some "new" chunky 8bit, 16bit or 24bit modes.

I agree, but more specifically, "new" should mean Graffiti and/or P96, in my opinion.

I guess that if we see this speed increase on the 68000 core running at 7 MHz, there will be a similar improvement factor to the 030, no? Someone got any estimate for what happens speed-wise when you minimize the memory delay times and increase the clock speed of the 030 to whatever th FPGA is able to maintain? Will we see other improvements like 1 instruction/cycle?

Is there a full list of other computers/arcade boards/video games that run on this hardware?

I'm sorry; just a bunch of questions that will obviously be answered automatically once this thing is out.

[Linde]

Productivity apps? Just run UAE/WinUAE

If we were all looking for the optimal way of doing things, we wouldn't be here, would we?

If youvare going to use a P96 driver, why not use a nice modern chip from ATI or Nvidia? It will be cheaper and more powerful than any FPGA solution.

Because there is already an FPGA on the board, I guess. Also, it's obviously the most future proof solution. I also believe that it would be a bit overkill with a modern GPU, considering the RAM amount and processor speed of this thing.

Personally, I don't think there's any point in extending the chipset, though. What software would developer would ever support it? If anything, just add generic P96 and AHI compatible "hardware" to support the various apps that actually make use of it.

[Linde]

Perhaps look at the UAE Picasso 96 driver. Maybe I'll write it.

Most likely, the P96 driver of UAE goes a long route through the system graphics API rather than poking at the graphics hardware directly, so I'm not so sure that that's a good source.

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I'll second (third?) the backplate request. It would be nice to be able to put this in a case out of the box.

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I'll gladly do without.

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That sounds just great! Will the built-in chunky modes comply to any existing standard? Graffiti springs to mind.

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I bet some of the other cores from fpgaarcade.com have been ported over - VIC-20, Atari ST, and also a lot of other open source FPGA game console/computer cores.

He's probably going to surprise us with a big list once everything is running 100% correctly.

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I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but what is missing from m68k/32 for it to be 68020 compatible? I love the speed benchmark results

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I guess that the difference is just a matter of a lot of time