SAM460 OK for old Amiga games?

[amigadave]

Does anyone know how many gates the FPGA on the SAM460 has?  Is it 484k?  I tried to find out on the ACube site, but could not find it and there appear to be many different versions of the Lattice XP2 FPGA chip with different densities and maybe different number of gates.

I'm just trying to find the information to answer the question of "can the SAM460's FPGA run the MiniMig core?", which was asked elsewhere.  If the SAM460 can run MiniMig cores and also access parts of the ports and slots of the SAM460 while doing so with a modified MiniMig core design, it makes the SAM460 a much more interesting product.

[amigadave]

Well , looks like this forum is certainly alive and very active - so many responses so fast.

Looks like from what I read that the Minimig is probably the best solution for me - as in new hardware to run the old games for when my existing Amigas die from old age or whatever.

Thanks for all your inputs and ideas.

The Minimig v1.1 is a great little board and much has been done to improve it since it was first invented, but I would point you toward MikeJ's Replay board as an even more improved, similar concept, that has more options, and will eventually run more cores from different computer and arcade systems.  Plus, if the 060 daughter card goes into production, it will be equivalent to, or surpass the fastest 68060 Classic Amigas and include most of the best additions to Classic Amiga systems, such as USB, Ethernet, more RAM and a Scandoubler, all in a smaller and more modern package.  The Replay is like a Minimig on steroids.

Another interesting project that you might be interested in is the Natami, but I don't have any idea when it will be ready for public consumption.