FPGAArcade case

[Darrin]

I did have a picture of the qosimo in one of those airport screening bins. It actually perfectly goes into one of those, and you can't get your fingers in beside it when you go to remove it which is really frustrating when you have no belt or shoos.

I know that feeling too.  Those damn plastic bins are crap, but Houston airport has special flat laptop bins which makes life easier.

[Darrin]

So you have USB to SATA adapter?
I see...so basically a floppy drive should be easy or even a card reader?

Interesting...

Correct.  Just the same as plugging devices into a Subway or Deneb on a real Amiga.  The principle is the same.

[Darrin]

I am just thinking about the best way to have everything inside and integrated rather than having bits sticking out

That was my reasoning behind having a 5.25" or 3.5" bay or two.  It would allow users to decide for themselves what they wanted to mount internally or just dangle via the external USB ports.

Personally, I wouldn't mind a real hard drive (2.5" or 3.5") and a DVD+RW mounted internally.

To keep the footprint small, the bays could be located either under or over the FPGA Board.

At the end of the day though, if costs are to be kep to the minimum then I can live without the bays.

[Darrin]

I don't really see the point in dvd/cd/harddisks to be honest. The SD card is quite fast/large, and we may put a second much higher speed slot on the daughter card directly connected to the FPGA.
/MikeJ

It's a personal thing for me.  I hope the FPGA Arcade will replace my expanded A4000, so the ability to read or write data CDs/DVDs or have bucket loads of storage space (hard drive) would be nice.  The C-One had the nice feature of being able to use a real 2.5" hard drive.

Of course, all of these thinsg could simply be plugged into the FPGA Arcade as external USB devices, but this is my dream case we're talking about here.  

[Darrin]

Just wondering... to what Amiga equivalent does an Arcade FPGA (Unexpanded) equal to?

I would imagine:

Amiga 1200 (AGA Support)
64MB RAM
CPU '30/50 <==== Not sure?
Hard Disk (Via HDF)
4 floppy drives <==== Not sure?

Anything else?

Certainly a turbo A1200 with 4 floppies, HD, extra RAM and a scan doubler.

[Darrin]

What kind of turbo

Currently SysInfo says I have a 60MHz 68020 which makes it 2.5 times after than a stock A1200 or 5.5 times faster than a stock A600.  Expect better with the next core update.