MiniMig with AGA

[whiteb]

Well its official, I am foaming at the mouth with the thought of this.

Its sad for my Amiga's, as the Accounts Manager (Wife) is going to demand some sell off's if I am going to get this.

@TasmanianGuy

I am just over the pond (Bass Straight) in Melbourne.

[whiteb]

The board will fit in any mini-itx case (or atx case for that matter).
It is basically half mini-itx depth, same width so the front two mounting holes work. All the IO fit in a standard ATX IO window.

50 PCBs being made, the first 10 will be populated. If there are no problems, the rest will be populated and more boards ordered.
Once the design work is done, they can knock them out pretty fast here.
/Mike

Sounds good Mike, best way though to populate a few, see how the Board manufacture was, see what Dead's turn up and go from there..

I do not see you having trouble shifting 50 populated boards.  Good work Mike ! No I take that back, OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[edit] after reading through the progress on your Website, and the bit about 720p@60hz (Pal) jumped out at me, is that only the main system menu, or would all output be upscaled to whatever resolution you want ?

My media player runs 1280x720p@60hz on my LCD screen.., but it wouldnt support 31khz (Scandoubled Amiga modes).

[whiteb]

How much boards are produced MikeJ?
Because looks like your replay is rely taking off bigtime now with the AGA core availble now and stuff.
Looks like there is even more populair then say a year ago (looks like it to me)

Didnt he say 50 boards are being made ? Populate 10, see what the quality is like, see how they perform etc, then populate the rest and sell them.

At least i think he said that.

[whiteb]

I think that was for the v1 replay board, but can be my mistake ;-)

I am under the assumption he was referring to the new V2.  We shall see.

[whiteb]

After failng to get an Amiga CD32, I am tempted to get an Amiga 1200 now but after seeing this I may put my money towards this.  I wonder what the level of compatability will be.

With Jakub (Yaqube) already fiddling with Minimig core's for it, quite good I expect.

[whiteb]

@MikeJ - How many retro style joystick ports does it have? I'm hoping for two... Can you give us a list of all the connectors on the board?

http://www.fpgaarcade.com/common/replayb_demo.jpg

This shows TWO DB9 Joystick ports.

http://www.fpgaarcade.com/common/fpgaarcade_revb_layout.gif

Also shows Two DB9.

[whiteb]

I've got a list of people who have expressed interest.
As soon as the board is up and running and pricing is finalised I'll make an announcement and also mail people on my list to see if they are still interested.
/Mike

Add me too

[whiteb]

That's right, give them to the people that will move the 'platform' on first, then when they get the softcore(s) working correctly Mike can do a new production run of a revised board for the the general populus (eg us).

I just hope that someone like AmigaKit or ACube pick this sucker up and market it properly.

I think Revision B is more or less where Mike wants the boards.  HE already said that once these 50 work out, it will be no hassle to bang out more.

I agree that the people who are working on the core's should get the first boards made, but... WE WANT SOME TOO

[whiteb]

Will you also be selling bare boards to those who wish to assemble one themselves, like some of the MiniMig boards were sold, or just completely assembled boards?

Do you have a reflow oven ?  The FPGA is BGA (Ball Grid), you cannot just take a fine pitch soldering iron to it.

Then again, people are fixing their video cards, when Dry joints appear on them under the BGA chips, plonk them in a Toaster Oven.

[whiteb]

Two posts....

[whiteb]

I'm definitelly interested on the project and i could buy one unit once everything is set for an standard user.

However i would like to know what is going to implement at the end this Rev B board.

020 or 030 code? Hig res modes? Gfx and audio card emulation?
Will it be faster than a 030 /50?

Maybe this is asking too much for now... XD
But it would be good to know what are we exactly aiming to.

Initially, 68000 (Softcore), they are planning an 020 soft core. That is all I know.

There will be Plug in boards to extend CPU's, like the 68060 test card they have.

[whiteb]

Update:
The PCB house has made a mistake with the impedance control in the board. They found this during testing and have almost finished re-making the first 60 boards.

It's not going to delay us (any more) as we are still missing the DACs....

/Mike

This, ladies and gentlemen is what the option "Electronic Test" is for when you order a PCB run.  (I think)