FPGA Replay Board

[JimS]

Let's keep the politics out of this thread, please!

[JimS]

That said, I can't plug my Emplant card into the FPGA Arcade (but I could always run Shapeshifter I guess).  

Isn't a 68k mac core for the replay in the works, making Shapeshifter unneeded?

[JimS]

I'd say it's the opposite, actually: isn't Shapeshifter working with the new core (as seen on youtube), making a 68k mac core unnedeed?
(For some reason, I find it quite funny! )

Yeah, I see the humor there... back in the day, I thought it was a hoot to run MS-DOS, Amiga OS, and Finder "simultaneously" on my Bridgeboard-equipped A2000 running shapshifter. ;-)

[JimS]

I always love to freak younger geeks out by pointing out I had a machine with 6 CPUs back then (of course, only 4 of them actually in use at any one time - the 68000 and 8086 would usually be disabled) of 4 difference architectures:

You could make the same observation for the previous generation of machines too. My Atari 800 had a CPU in each of the four external floppies and the 850 serial interface. There's 6 right there. ;-) 7 if you stretch the point beyond elastic limits and consider Antic (the gfx chip) as a cpu. ;-)

[JimS]

So how does it work, are there three FPGAs or are all the custom chips emulated on one FPGA?

One FPGA. Kind of appropriate, since back in the day, the three custom chips were supposed to be one chip, but the tech of the day didn't go that far.