FPGA Replay Board

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The only practical route would be a hardened FPGA but even then the NRE is pretty big.

There are alternatives: eASIC or ViASIC.

greets,
Staf.

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-Do they offer the same functionality ?
NatAmi is intended to be a "new Amiga" rather than a compatible one.

I don't think this is correct. NatAmi should be fully compatible with OS3.x but because of the more expensive parts used there should be much more room for more advanced extensions than Replay.

greets,
Staf.

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Amiga Inc. don't own the rights anymore do they? I thought everything was deemed to be the property of Hyperion following the court case?

I think Cloanto is the place to be. The AresOne is sold with a Amiga Forever OEM version for the kickstart ROMs in the UAE emulation under AROS.

greets,
Staf.

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Spartan6 is very interesting but is quite a bit more expensive at the moment.

Now you mention spartan6. I stumbled on the Atlys dev board for that FPGA. Probably not all the features you want for all retro needs but I think still interesting.
I am thinking about buying one.

greets,
Staf.

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@MikeJ

I've got a new toy on my desk. It's on loan, but it's a Virtex-7 2000T. This baby would take a full Amiga Chipset + CPU (many times over) and early runs with Synplify + ISE have MiniMig 68k meeting timing easily constrained at 100MHz

Shame it cost over $100k

I have now one of these on my desk. Somewhat less powerful but also less costly .
Also don't have the commercial software with it, so I am interested to see what IP I will be missing.
Unfortunately did not find a time to start it up yet.

greets,
Staf.

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@Fats, tried raw S-ATA with the board ..?

No. Unfortunately the only thing I currently did with the board is look at it every time I enter my room.

greets,
Staf.

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@Fats, tried raw S-ATA with the board ..?

Did a bit of playing with the device.
IOs on the Spartan-6 chip only go to 1.06 Gb/s; SATA1 needs 1.5Gb/s already. Will see if I can use USB stick for storage.

greets,
Staf.

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Why bother?  There's no need for a middleman in this day and age.

One has to be careful though as the seller is responsible for boards that get lost in delivery. So one has to refund or send a new board if a user claims he did not receive the board. Even insured delivery is no guarantee (...this is not my signature...) and there are people abusing this system. Don't know in which countries this is valid.

greets,
Staf.

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XESS - makes some Spartan-based development boards. They have some free tutorials on their web site.

Another provider of FPGA boards is Digilent Inc.. They have also some example projects for the Xilinx FPGA development environment using their boards.
Another one is Terasic.