FPGA Replay Board

[bbond007]

Anyone else thinks that the Arcade FPGA has killed the Minimig completely?

Nope, I just turned mine on today after installing it in my new fancy minimig case.

It fired right up...

[bbond007]

For anyone interested, I found something that looks like it would do the trick but it's very expensive for what it is.

In reality, it's probably just a PIC micro-controller with USB support, bit-banging the PS/2 protocol.

I suspect there are plenty of USB and PS/2 PIC code examples floating about on the net so building a similar contraption should be pretty much a case of cut'n'pate with the existing examples.
http://www.kvm.com.au/store/product.aspx?ProductID=5524&CategoryID=311

This is my first post, but I've been watching this thread from the beginning, but now that things are getting closer I must say....

.... I wan't one.


I'll send a PM & email for you to add me to your list shortly.

I too want the new Minimig. I currently have the soon to be obsolete Minimig 1.1 (with all the options) and its an amazing little machine with a 68000 that runs like an 030

Anyway, the device you linked too looks a lot like this device I purchased to put my Minimig on my 4-port KVM which is USB only. I'm coding an application where I need to switch between my PC and Minimig frequently to test.

Anyway, I got this product that looks a lot like  the one in your link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200976&Tpk=ps22usb

It does work with the keyboard, however the mouse only seems to move up and to the right while randomly pressing the right mouse button. The converter is a partial success because two mice is way better than two keyboards and it does cause my KVM to see a computer on that port. Otherwise the KVM would just bypass that port.

The converter works (with the mouse) on my Amiga 1200 with the COCOLINO PS2 mouse adapter.

Oh, also, I originally intended the converter to let me use the more modern 2.4 GHZ wireless mice with my 1200. It does not seem to work with any wireless USB mice. I ended up tracking down a NOS Logitech 2.4 GHZ mouse with backwards compatibility with PS2.

good luck
nate

[bbond007]

Is it possible to use a harddrive image with kickstart/Workbench 1.3 on an FPGAArcade/minimig?

One of the systems I'm hoping to replace is an A500 with an A590.

Thanks.

I think you need to use romsplit to split apart both the A500 1.3 rom and the A600 (2 or 3.x) ROM and use remus to make a 1.3 rom with with the newer ROMs scsi.device.

I have never tried this.

[bbond007]

So if I'm reading all this correctly, the monitors that I have that work with my Minimig 1.1 or even my a1200(without scandoubler) in the case of my dell 2320, possibly won't work with FPGA Replay because I'll be using HDMI?

“I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.” Adam Savage

[bbond007]

OSD Menu for image adjustments are perfect when you get not readable image.. :p

in that case you get the following message sent to COM1:

Abort, Retry, Fail?

[bbond007]

I did not know FPGA Replay has psychedelic wobbly whirly.

Now I really want one.

[bbond007]

I'am quite interested in the FPGA Replay reading this thread since the beginning.  

But looking at the Homepage I ask myself how fast is the SD-Card access. Is it only 500kBytes / second like (it seems to me) on the minimig?
It looks like SD-Card is only interfaced with SPI which would be quite slow.  

for explanation see my post here:
http://www.minimig.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=452&start=10

My minimig 1.1 does over 2000 in turbo mode....

[bbond007]

Put me down for an fpgarcade+060+daughterboard!

I had put in email about the fpgarcade a while back but i can't remember when.

I would also like to be put on the list for fpgarcade+060+daughterboard

I realize my 1200 will not last forever

thanks!

[bbond007]

I have the file and it is about 10GB large (the hardfile). It works nice on WinUAE though -- as you also probably have tried. Yet, I would have to shrink it a little down to fit my 8GB SDIO card to test on the Replay first. I will bring it home and try and see if it works. It boots up a plain OS3.1 with WHDLoad on it and a ton of games/demos -- so I think it will work pretty nice. Just have to test it first

Thanks for that link. It'll be a nice baseline for my new hardfile

Espen

unless that is a newer version of that same hardfile, it expands out to a 8GB HDF (too big for FAT32), however its less than 1/2 full so I was able to copy everything to a 4GB hardfile that worked on my Minimig 1.1.

[bbond007]

Thread bump!

Just wondering if there's any progress to report?

I am happy to report that just recently the tread on the FPGAReplay board has been bumped.

[bbond007]

@Freqmax
If you don't mind me asking how much does land cost in the states?

Depends on location. Some places land is insanely cheap, just you may not want to live there...

the square states generally cost less....

[bbond007]

Where did you get the idea that I have cleared land at all?

Anyway real estate pricing tend to be in parity with job oppertunities so it's usually the same more or less when considering the quota between living cost vs salary.

Very true...

I could move just a few hours up north and have a pretty nice house for probably less than this small townhouse near Miami i just bought, but I don't think there are many programming jobs. Hard to imagine that it sold in 2007 for over 2X what I paid for it.

Right now Detroit area is very reasonable with property values around the same price of a new mid to high-end configured Apple computer.

I think in general the UK will cost more.

[bbond007]

I have just moved flat which has caused chaos, but I have the servers and workstation up and running again, and a place to work.

I just moved as well... I know what a nightmare that is....

Keep up the good work!

[bbond007]

I am waiting for the post that accompanies moving flat, one that usually involves getting a Girlfriend, getting married, having a couple of Baby version of said person, and finding said baby version has drooled over all the next batch of PCB's and chewed the components.

LOL.

You'll never have enough money for a FPGA Arcade Minimig 2.0 if you do all that...

[bbond007]

-The original Minimig 1.1 board, designed by Dennis van Weeren and mass-produced by Acube Systems, is the best Amiga I ever had, even if it's limited in so many ways as having "only" 4MB of RAM. Real 68K on-board guarantees an almost perfect compatibility rate. Clear winner here, thanks again to the extra work by Yaqube, Boing4000 and MMrobinsonb5 towards a perfect custom chipset implementation.  

I know when I got my 4MB Minimig 1.1 it was not so great..

I found only about 50% of the .ADFs worked, the filesystem was limited to FAT16 and 8 character file names, there was no HDF support. With the addition of the ARM controller and updates it progressed into the impressive little machine that it is today...

Just saying that the 1.1 was not that great for the first few years either.

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