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[Piru]

An FPGA based Amiga Video Toaster does not have to only be NTSC, it could support many resolutions including PAL & even HD.

Has anyone ever expressed any interest to work on this stuff? I took a look at some part of it once and it was something like  ~100k lines of assembler, and this was just one component.

So the emphasis is very much on "could".

Frankly, I don't see the point. It'd be much easier to emulate the thing in SW anyway, if you must. Just take UAE and add the required things. FPGA is possible, too, but what benefits does it offer over pure sw solution?

[Piru]

@Piru

UAE does not have an Amiga Video slot or Zorro II slot.

Neither does Minimig. Your point was?

[Piru]

Since this a 4 input hardware switcher, hardware + software will be required.

So have just the 4 input hardware switcher in hardware (say USB), and rest in software. If the rest is going to be FPGA it can as well be regular software as well. Much simpler to work with, more flexible, simpler and cheaper HW.

But I frankly still don't see the point. The software is ancient, and even trying to make it do anything but NTSC is going to be painful.

[Piru]

The main contributor is in charge. It's not even known if others will put any money in since it starts at such a impressive amount. If you don't like that don't donate, no one is asking you to.

The amount in question isn't that large really, considering the work required. However, obviously he can do whatever he likes with the money. Just don't expect everyone else to jump in.

Unfortunately no one contributed to the UAE for Mac Bounty and it was closed.

I have a strong feeling this will happen to this bounty as well.

It doesn't help that there are only handful of people with required background knowledge.

[Piru]

Yeah, I know things have become cheaper and you can get a video capture card for a few $$$, but none of that stuff is really quality.

Have you compared these solutions against VT? Enthusiasm is good, but basing it on false premise is not.

[Piru]

btw2. Is xcore allowed to be used instead of a FPGA? (in my imagination VT HW would be far more easy to do with xcore than with FPGA)

xcore is not suitable for this project.

[Piru]

@Piru

Care to elaborate why not?

Bandwidth, or rather lack of it.
Memory, or rather lack of it.