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[mikej]

Been looking for a "desktop" class modern hardware solution to run my BBS on, never did get an email back from the FPGA Arcade folks when they initially did their interest check years ago :/:(

I'm sorry, I do reply to all mails - sometimes I get a bit swamped and forget. Mail again.
/Mike

[mikej]

FPGA Arcade is only for developers so far and the AGA source are still not released. So no go.

Not quite, a number of boards are with non-developers. Shipping is increasing now.

The Replay board is designed for mass-production, so a lot of effort has been put into board test etc - I don't want any problems with the hardware in the field.

It's also been designed from the ground up to support multiple cores, with a core library and flexible menu system. This has taken some time.

As soon as the Amiga new FD/HD system is working, I'll start shipping like crazy and all code will be released.

/MikeJ

[mikej]

Remember that the Replay is intended to be a multi-platform implementation not just Amiga. The expansion ports will allow tailoring of the Replay to support or enhance other platforms for which cores are developed.

Correct. The main board was designed to be low-cost and suitable for a broad range of applications - with just enough on board. What's on there is ok though, 192KHz audio DAC and DVI/Analog/Composite outputs with decent filtering and line driver.

The daughterboard for the Amiga/Atari has Ethernet/USB and an optional 68060 (with associated memory).

Another daughterboard has a JAMMA connector for arcade game cabs.

There is a patch daughterboard as well which as 5V translators on all the IO and a place to wire up other chips (processors / SID etc) for analysis. This way I can run the original chip against the soft copy. I am doing this at the moment for some of the AGA chips to fine-tune the timing.
/MikeJ

[mikej]

Can one make use of the addon board memory without any extra CPU ..?

As for expansion, I prefer more FPGA matrix anytime. And if one wants more power and isn't dependent on strict timing there's always the latest 4 GHz offerings with Gigarams of bytes.

Possible, the SDRAM controller sits in the main board FPGA.
In theory the soft processor could be used internally with both the external DDR and SDRAM.
/MikeJ

[mikej]

Mikej, plllease can you give us an update when can I order the FPGA Replay from you? As in, can you give us an idea when the AGA and Amiga core is going to be completed??

Now, and it is done - one AGA bug to fix and HD still a bit odd, nearly fixed.
/Mike