Gameduino

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I'm sure this has popped up on another thread somewhere. But most here will know that I enjoy playing with Microcontrollers, and by far the best hobby platform I have found is the Arduino.

Anyway, the Gameduino project is a little "sub board" based on an FPGA that provides graphics and audio output, with a similar specification to the A500 (actually the video modes are lower resolution but with better sprite hardware, and its copper is actually a full CPU)... I'm curious about FPGAs and will be seeing what it would take to increase its addressable RAM and increase the video modes...

But the reason why I bring this board up, is that it is loosely as powerful as the Amiga chipset (similar features), but is connected via an SPI interface so is CPU agnostic... It would have been nice if the Amiga had been developed like this

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I have to check it's you and not KESA now :roflmao:

And....in 1985? or 1992/3 in AGA years. Either way all Amiga computers can have a different CPU unless you meant 680x0 <==> 80x86 type interchangeability.

The Amiga's Chipset is built around the 68000 bus, this chipset is built around the very simple SPI bus and I find that quite a fun idea... Like a low cost, low speed PCI