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Re: Vampire 600: FPGA A600 Accelerator Preorder
« on: August 12, 2013, 12:17:55 PM »
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that is what is all about to many people participate in this and that we build new cores constantly and put them into board. So anyone with VHDL or Verilog knowledge can try and best thing is that you can't damage A600 or accelerator itself because there are lot of protection modules there.

About those accelerators for A1200, we will see...
Interesting project! What else is on the board other than an FPGA? I assume a boot processor etc?

My thinking is that this could make a fun hacking platform for the A600! :)

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Re: Vampire 600: FPGA A600 Accelerator Preorder
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2013, 04:14:15 PM »
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Akiko in FPGA could be interesting... Or perhaps some other wacko invention like a hardware implemented raycaster. I wonder if we could actually add features to the Amiga that never existed before that would provide hardware assistance to other CPU intensive tasks. A very exciting time indeed!
Akiko done right might be a nice addition, where instead of writing the chunky pixel to the chip, then reading back the planar pixel and copying that data to the bitmap... Perhaps one could simply set a pointer to the chunky buffer in fast ram, then set it off to automatically copy and covert the buffer to chipram as planar data :)