FPGA Arcade and Minimig overview

[Darrin]

I am a huge fan of the FPGA Arcade Replay board, but I am puzzled why so many people forget to include the C-one that can also run the MiniMig core (not sure if it needs additional hardware or not), or the Chameleon and few mention the MCC16, when discussions about FPGA based systems that can run AmigaOS1.0 to 3.1.

MiniMig was the first, so it gets remembered, but the FPGA Arcade Replay & Natami seem to get the most attention and the rest are fogotten, or overlooked.

Let's not forget the possibility that the Clone-A may show up some day as well, as Jens has spent a ton of time on it and with his track record of making ideas into real hardware, I would be surprised if he did not put all of that prior effort into a product some day. (I see that you did mention the Clone-A)

I have a C-One and it needs an additional "Minimig" card to fit into the CPU slot (it actually has a 68000 on it).  I found the Minimig core on it to be flakey to say the least (and I wasn't the only one) which was a bit of a shame as the C-One allowed you to actually use a real 2.5" IDE drive and had more RAM than the Minimig v1.1 (not to mention the VIC, C64, etc cores).

I have the Chameleon64 too, but for now the Minimig core does not detect a joystick plugged into the C64 ports so you can only play games that don't just require the mouse by using "joystick emulation" via a keypad on a PS2 keyboard or using a IR CDTV joypad.  Hopefully that will be fixed in a later update.

[Darrin]

@Darrin. What happened to those benchmarks you said you were going to do? Did i miss your results you might have put up?

Which ones?  I've been so busy lately that I've hardly been home.  I was away for 5 solid weeks, just had a week off where I haven't even switched on a miggie and I'm off to West Texas again tomorrow for 3 and a half weeks.  After that I fly to the UK for 10 days (so I should get a chance to call in at AmigaKit), fly back to the USA and hopefully see my wife for the first time in 3 months as she's been down in Australia, have 4 days with her and then head off on another business trip.

Keep reminding me and I'll get around to it.  

I actually stopped doing the testing on the different software because I've been expecting a new FPGA Arcade core update and I need a CDTV remote for the Chameleon64.