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A project I'd like to see from Jens...
« on: June 23, 2014, 08:00:04 AM »
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Re: A project I'd like to see from Jens...
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2014, 01:11:01 AM »
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Majastas A600 accelerator is now being done by @biggun here? and Cyclone-5 being the descendant?

Has the source for the FPGA Arcade come out yet? I think it's a great platform. But stuff that actually gets used is even better ;)


Majsta is working with Biggun on the accelerator project because the original softcore used in the A600 accelerator was not as fast as the Phoenix core developed by the Apollo team (which is lead by Biggun).

I suspect that (based on previous conversations and threads on various forums) the new Cyclone 5 based accelerator is just a 68000 chip socket harness for the Sockit board and other harnesses are in development for other Amigas.

The FPGA Arcade Replay board is only in tester's hands right now.  I wonder how likely a Replay board add-on version based on the Sockit would be, given that the Cyclone 5 is likely more advanced than the FPGA on the Replay board.  I'd love a solution like this because it would free up space on the Cyclone for MMU and FPU while freeing up space on the Replay board for better graphics card emulation.  ;-)
 

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A project I'd like to see from Jens...
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2014, 01:15:58 AM »
This is not the NatAmi MX board.  Thomas made that as stand-alone.   This is an off-the-shelf FPGA dev-board called the Sockit board (based on past discussion with Gunnar) or a derivative and an accelerator harness.  Getting SuperAGA added would require distribution rights from Thomas but it is possible.   There are other cores under development that may surpass SuperAGA.  Since an accelerator has access to the chipset, functions required by a stand-alone unit can wait.
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