FPGA Replay Board

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More update goodness!

http://www.minimig.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=36&start=67

That... I WANT THAT!

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Let's be happy if the baseboard makes it out of the door first..

Oh I will be, I'd love to get one of MikeJ's boards, but you must admit that image with the expansion board does look awesome

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yeah they are elitist every time I mention fpga replay on there forums or anything they feel is competition to themselves they delete the posts

I've not deleted any of your posts, I'll raise it in the team forum and find out who has.

I've always said that I want one of Mikes boards and I just wish that these things were easier to finish and have manufactured so that I could get one!

Andy

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@Digiflip,

Well I posted, Bartek pointed out the discussion and, as Forcie has said, it was basically for posting lots of stuff just like the above. Not in any helpful or constructive way but basically as a put down to the Natami team.

This is now seriously off topic. That topic being MikeJ's FPGAArcade board.

I think that if you want to vent about Natami then there's plenty of threads full of people with negative opinions about it so that's the last I'll reply regarding it in this one

Andy

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PS: sorry for derailing your thread MikeJ.
Now hurry up and get everyone your boards!!!

Andy

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_just_ 32MB would be plenty for most Amiga software and games. It's only newer workloads that might need more.

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Hi Mikej,

Any news on when you might be putting these into production?
Or a rough guess when we can order one of the final-but-pre-production boards?

I know it can be hard to judge these things but I'm also ever optimistic

Andy

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@Digiflip,
I'm having trouble accessing the rest of the site but I think you've already had your answer answered in the other thread. I don't personally know why Vesalia thinks Sept 2011 but I'd guess that they've just put the figure there as a guess.

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Hi there, i've just run into this thread, and i'm really amazed about what this project could perform, but, could some of you please provide some info about what are the real specs of this system, what cores are available and how do they perform? How much would this board cost?

I've seen some info that it could emulate a 020 around 50mhz or so with RTG without the need of the daughter board, but i don't have any idea about other cores/systems.

Cheers.

It seems as though there's a core based on the TG68k.C with added instructions from the '020 and also AGA compatibility. Now also with an Picasso 96 RTG chipset as seen in this thread:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58425
Yaqube has also made a daughterboard that adds a '060 and seems to be really pushing a lot of features onto these things

I think MikeJ has mentioned that he's got other platforms running on it as well, after all it's not just an Amiga system. I guess this means that other FPGA based platforms could soon be ported across too it such as fpgagen (megadrive) : http://code.google.com/p/fpgagen/
Should people be interested in doing that.

Andy

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MikeJ, I think I speak for everybody when I say... gimme! gimme! gimme!

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@Darrin
Not quite what I had in mind!

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who is the uk official distributor?

Do they have set prices?

I thought MikeJ was distributing them himself through his website, although I'd bet that Vesalia and AmigaKit might also be interested in doing so at some point. No-one has spoken up about if they will or not though.

The prices seem to hover around the £220 region with the soft-68k CPU but obviously there's always some fluctuation between the estimated final price and the real final price.

If you plan to save up or set aside about £250 then you should be able to afford whatever the basic model is plus postage and packaging etc. That's what I'm trying to do

Andy

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Any new news MikeJ?
Still really looking forward to you getting this released

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Sega megadrive#Technical specifications
 * CPU: 68000 @ 7.61 MHz + Z80 @ 3.58 MHz
 * RAM: 138 kB total
 * Video: Yamaha YM7101 (seems pale compared even to a VIC-II)
 * Sound: YM2612 5-channel FM and 1-channel FM/PCM, SN76489 4-channel Programmable Sound Generator
 * Cartridge via serialized interface.

Yeah it seems doable. If someone actually get inclined enough to do it is another matter.

FPGAGen
http://code.google.com/p/fpgagen/



EDIT: even better, seems like he's done PC Engine and some others too http://www.torlus.com/
EDIT2: "THE EDITENNING": Obviously these aren't for the FPGAArcade, but they could be ported

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Thread bump!

Just wondering if there's any progress to report?