MiniMig with AGA

[Darrin]

I think I have enough information to write a new one from scratch. Only time is the limit.

Looks like my joke about "Picasso 2010" wasn't too far off the mark!  Picasso 2011?  

[Darrin]

Darrin, When did you write that joke?

LOL.  and we still have 42 days to go...  

[Darrin]

Mike,

Could you give us a quick summary of what cores should be available to run on this board when it is tested and ready for bulk production and what others are under development?

[Darrin]

Mike,

Could you give us a quick summary of what cores should be available to run on this board when it is tested and ready for bulk production and what others are under development?

any cores at all?

[Darrin]

Sorry for the delay, I've been a bit busy.
Board is up and running, no problems as yet.

There will be quite diverse core support, a fair number of people are interested in supporting it.

All the system on fpgaarcade have been ported (including VIC20)
I am working on Star Wars, BBC B and Atari ST.

We also have C64, spectrum, zx81, apple 1, cray 1(!) and lots of home games consoles being worked on.

I'm involved with the visual6502 project who are doing die scans of original chips and I'm converting these into VHDL - so we will get even more accuracy going forward for these retro systems.

Best,
Mike

Thanks Mike.  Great news.

So that gives us:

Amiga AGA
Videopac/Odyssey2
Adventure Vision console
ColecoVision console
Commodore VIC-20
Bally Professional Astrocade
Scramble
Frogger
Asteroids Deluxe
Pacman
Lady Bug
Space Invaders
Galaxian

With the following under development:
Star Wars
BBC B
Atari ST
Commodore 64
Spectrum
ZX81
Apple 1
Cray 1
Amstrad CPC
various home games consoles.

[Darrin]

Just a small update. The CPU core is still clocked at 28 MHz but this time with two separate 256-byte instruction and data caches.

We're going to have to wrap you in cotton wool and assign 10 armned guards to watch your every move just to make sure you never have an accidient!  

Great work!

[Darrin]

Testing going well, no problems yet apart from the audio connector being a bit close to the DVI connector which means you can't use really fat DVI cables. I've mounted the jack at a slight angle which helps. Right angle audio plugs also works.

It's the little things like that which make you go "Doh!"  

I'll get a video of the board running some demos up ASAP.
/Mike

Great stuff.  Thanks for the update Mike.

[Darrin]

"Didn't think of that (tm) ;-) "

Not quite true, the decision to move the connectors and fit everything on the back was not taken lightly, and was modelled quite carefully.

It is a pain but not a real problem, especially as you can use the RCAs on the other board, or a right angle audio plug.

The only cable I have which doesn't fit is the DVI to HDMI cable which is about 2cm wider than the DVI connector

What about using a DVI-DVI cable off the board and then plugging a DVI-HDMI cable into that?

As you say, right-angle RCA jacks are hardly a show stopper.  I have a bunch of old ones and I'm sure Radio Shack has enough of them to stretch around the world.  

[Darrin]

Finally I have had some time to make tests with my new Replay expansion board. I was very curious how fast the 060 rev. 6 can run. It was able to run very stable from 3.3V with a very small heat sink and fan at over 100 MHz.

What's the difference between "very stable" and "completely stable"?  

You know you're drowning us in our own drool!  

[Darrin]

Okey,
Here are some pictures from my FPGAReplay board with WB3.1 and MagicWB installed.
My board is not in a case Yet but i'm working on that.
I will play around with this install for a few day's ;-)
ps. and afcourse Intel is ouside again LOL

Nice one.

Mine is still "in the post" (I guess it takes longer to ship to the USA), but I'm still on a business trip so I won't be home for another 2 weeks anyway.

What's the maximum screen resolution you've tried with it and how do interlaced screens look?