Hi , I new here (first post) so hi to everyone.
I am considering developing a small compact and cheap portable amiga.
I Design PCBs for a living.
Imagine minimig crossed with a PSP.
Specs
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32MB SDRAM
1.6M gate Spartan 3E FPGA
4.3" Touchscreen LCD
Joystick
Joypad
buttons (start, menu, reset)
ARM 7 MPU with support for FAT 16/32 using a fast 8 bit bus between the fpga and arm, USB mass storage for SDCARD.
Dataflash for storing the roms.
PSP/iphone Battery
TV out
Headphone/speakers
Volume control
Li-po Charger
The 68000 CPU will be integrated into the fpga.
It will also be able to run other IP cores as well, like pacman,defender, vic20, atari st etc...
I am quite happy to design the hardware and draw the PCB, but need some help with porting the HDL over, can you help..
Is anyone interested in such a device or is it just another waste of time???
Welcome to the forum, nice to have an enthusiastic user with us. I would love one, but I have a few points of input
-An ambitious project, I wish I knew enough to help.
- I highly recommend looking at amiga.serveftp.com to find the schematics for the various Amiga models for hardware reference.
-Please try to go for RTG CV64/3d, and maybe a more powerful CPU like the 68020? I don't know what help it might be, but check out winuae.net and look at the source code for it, maybe it will help with FPGA coding.
-Good luck and I would buy one IF it was comparable to an NDSi or PSP, PLEASE don't make it look like a PSP, go for the Pandora look.
