If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?

[Darrin]

Hit the market with cheap FPGA "Minimigs" and have an online shop selling additional cores, ADFs, HDFs and expansion boards.

[Darrin]

That, but offer a model with 2-3 PCI slots too as a "power user's" board.

(This assumes a PCI controller could be bodged onto the minimig board to make the slots active without too much trouble, otherwise, exactly that)

Yep, a PCI expansion board would be nice for those wanting to expand with board to the maximum.  As the FPGA Arcade slot allows a CPU, SD card, RAM, Ethernet and USB to be added to the system then I'd think that some sort of Zorro/PCI expansion could (in theory) also be cobbled onto a board and the core re-writen to access it.

[Darrin]

I looked up their website and cant find much about the Amiga, just stupid rubbish like the crappy Vic20, Philips Videopac etc...

You have to remember that the FPGA Arcade is not just for Amiga use, but alos for "rubbishy crap" like the VIC-20, Atari ST, orginal game consoles, etc.

Here's the main board:
http://www.fpgaarcade.com/common/replay_overview.jpg

From the Amiga side you have:
2 x Joystick ports
2 x PS/2 connectors (mouse & keyboard)
SVHS Out
Composite Out
DVI Out (DVI to VGA via cable)
Sereo audio out (3.5mm jack)
SD Card (store FPGA updates, cores, ADF and HDF files)
Reset button
Daughterboard expansion (like the slot on an A500/A600/A1200)
DDR2 RAM (fancy 48MB of Chip RAM to go with your FAST RAM?)
Serial port
5 Power inputs (take your choice of which one you want to use)
On/Off switch
Spare I/O connectors

Current core:
Switch between 68000 and 68020 CPUs
Up to 4x Floppy drives (normal and fast modes available)
Up to 2x Hard Drives (HDF files)
Kickstart selection via menu (1.3, 3.0, 3.1, etc)
OCS, ECS or AGA chipsets
RAM user configurable (set how much Chip, Slow, Fast, etc you want)

P96 RTG to be included in update.

I'm sure I've missed something, and I haven't even mentioned the daughterboard yet.  ;-)

[Darrin]

Oooh I like.. Just wish it could do better than a 68020 like maybe at the very least an 030 @ 50+ Mhz.

I'll let you know what the next core update manages.  Currently it is a 60MHz 68020, but it should do much better than that shortly.

The daughterboard has the option for a real 68060 on it which has already reached 100MHz.