A little teaser

[Nickman]

In the animation of the two boards slotting together the 5x2 header appears to go straight through the HDMI connector. Will the 5x2 header need to be removed/unpopulated, will the 2x20 sockets be extended or will the HDMI connector be moved on a later revision?

Good luck with the project.

Yes noticed that when i did the mockup image and animation for Gunnar.
When the Apollo card is assembled IRL we will see how it works.

Maybe the BeMicro CV card that Gunnar has is different from the card I used or maybe my (very quick and not with the "correct" measurements) picture is off.

Just wait 2 more week TM

Here is a later rendered version with the pins removed

[Nickman]

[Nickman]

Hard to do a good 3d model from lowres pictures and the only apollo card picture was not from the top but at an angle. Think it still is ok and you get a clue on how it will look in the end. And that was the purpose of the pictures.

[Nickman]

@Gunnar,
Will you and the Apollo team be releasing these boards for sale before the RTG/SAGA is completed?  If yes, do you think you will have a standard AGA implemented when these boards are first ready for sale, so that the A500 will then be able to run AGA software and games?

I am sure most buyers would rather have the team start selling these boards as soon as possible, assuming that the softcore 680x0 is working as an accelerator for which ever Classic Amiga these boards are installed into, and hopefully the Ethernet and USB, plus 128mb of RAM are also working when first released.  The RTG/SAGA stuff can come later, as long as we have the original Amiga display still working, or standard Amiga resolutions & color depth being re-routed out through the HDMI connector, until the RTG/SAGA display is finished.

Will the Ethernet & USB2.0 connectors be completely supported and working when first released?  Are they finished now?

Edit:  Djole wrote   I was thinking exactly the same thing.  There must be a way around having to pay that large license fee for HDMI.

Quick answers until Gunnar give you more offical answers.

The idea is to first release it as an accelerator with memory. And then at a later on add RTG/AGA/SAGA with a system update.

With a Picasso96 driver written it can be possible to use the HDMI for RTG but there is no way to reroute the Amiga output before the ECS/AGA chipset is completed in the FPGA.

Ethernet driver will come when then driver is written.

There is no USB 2.0 on the card so dont know where you got that from.