FPGA Replay Board

[Everblue]

Sorry for asking - haven't been following lately, but there is a price and/or date yet?

Cheers!

[Everblue]

Hi there - sorry to jump in like this but I've been interested in this FPGA board - and the thread is a bit too technical for me to follow. Anyway I was wondering...

1. When we can buy one (a ready to gone one, that is - no soldering involved!)

2. What will the price be (last I read somewhere was "much less than 200 euro").

3. What CPU speed and RAM will it have.

4. Will I be able to hook it up to a TV via HDMI, with audio coming out of the TV speakers.

Cheers

[Everblue]

Thanks for the reply mikej - one more thing, what form factor is the motherboard? (if it has a standard form factor )

[Everblue]

That's great. I'd really love to get one now but I am a bit short of cash (aren't we all). Guess will wait for the next run

[Everblue]

This is an awesome project. Hopefully one day it will be something we can buy from stores such as AmigaKit and Vesalia

[Everblue]

74 dollars O_O

[Everblue]

Ooops I saw the price on top

[Everblue]

mikej I have a dreambox DM800 satellite receiver, and it has DVI connection, not HDMI, and yet it still outputs audio from the TV. Maybe you should look into that?

The receiver comes with a DVI to HDMI cable.

[Everblue]

From a Dreambox DM800 forum regarding audio on DVI (with DVI to HDMI cable):

"In the dm800, the audio has been routed to go through pins in the dvi lead to the hdmi cable. This is how come the audio is able to go through the dvi lead in the dm800. The box has been specifically designed to carry audio through the dvi cable. Nothing to do with the actual cable used, it's the box... "

Maybe the same thing can be done with FPGA Replay, that way we can keep using the much popular HDMI port.

[Everblue]

Just wondering.... is it able to set the Replay FPGA to output at 1080p reslution and then multiply the pixel output of the picture to the maximum resolution that would fit in the 1080p resolution? Extra pixels would be just black of course (border around the picture).

Not sure if I was clear

[Everblue]

I am interested in getting an Arcade FPGA =) (including a backplate when available!). What is the current availability situation... and price?

Thanks!

[Everblue]

Stupid question... what resolution (resolutions?) does this output at using the DVI connector? Will there be an option to have the hardware to say, double the resolution in size (triple?) rather than leave it to the TV to upscale?

[Everblue]

What I meant is this (all hypotetical ok ):

Say an Amiga game has a resolution of 240p, and I connect the ArcadeFPGA to my 1080p. Instead of feeding the TV 240p and let it upscale, would it be possible have the ArcadeFPGA to quadruple the resolution and leave the extra remaining pixels "empty" (black border.

So, let's do the maths....

240p x 4 = 960p
1080p - 960 = 120p / 2 = 60 extra pixels on top of bottom of the screen.

In the case of using a 720p resolution, it won't be possible to have the resolution quadrupled, because it wouldn't fit, so instead we'd do:

240p x 3 = 720p
In the above scenario the picture would fit pixel perfect without any margins

Is the above possible, or it is a sign that I had too much wine during today's dinner?

Thanks!

PS The idea is to avoid using the TV's upscaler which usually suck

[Everblue]

I think it's doable.

It's when you need cosinustransform in FPGA that things get slightly more complicated..

You need what?

BTW are there any good videos of Arcade FPGA running a few amiga games? I can't find anything decent.

[Everblue]

This is actually a big deal.
If done this way as Nostromo suggests, it would give us the best possible picture quality. It would be blocky, but crystal clear. Much better than TFT screen upscaler which would lead to a jaggy-blurry picture.
Also, Workbench resolution as 512p x 2 = 1024p
Great great stuff if possible.

I guess it can be done by software? On the core? And well you can always have some image post-processing features such as scanlines to soften the pixel edges.