MiniMig with AGA

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Ah, so Yaqube has let his secret out
This explains why my mailbox is now full. Sorry if you have mailed me and I have not replied, I'll try and get around to everybody.

I'm in China at the moment and working hard to finish the RevB layout. There are about 30 connections left to make, but it's pretty much done.

This has a few fixes over the RevA board. The main difference is the connectors are all moved to one side (not the rs232 debug) and it includes composite/svhs option on the main board.

It should go to manufacture Monday, and I hope they can make them in time before I leave...
MikeJ

That's awesome Mike!

What are the specs of the production boards in terms of RAM?

Is it 64meg for the dev prototypes and 32meg for production boards?

Would it be possibe to buy a board with 64meg?

Obviously more RAM is better... especially if we ever go towards Capcom/Neo Geo emulation as those ROMS are pretty huge!

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@MikeJ

Its now 16:00(ish) in China... Did the boards make it to manufacture?

Did you make those last 4 connections?

I'm excited.  I can't help it!

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I would just love to be able to buy an FPGA/Replay2/Minimig type o thing in laptop form.

Surely with all the crazy gear that comes of China there would be a company that could make this happen?

I guess it would be down to how much demand there would be for such a product...

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@MikeJ

Will the cores be released as opensource when they are ready?

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Hurry up dag nam it!

The wait is killing me!

;-)

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I would be inclined to have a more video out options "just in case"

Would probably mainly run it from VGA/DVI though on an lcd.

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OK, I may be dreaming here but...

I'm dreaming of an Amiga laptop powered by the FPGA arcade...

I know some Chinese companies make hooky Mac-A-Like laptop's etc...

Surely once the Replay board is complete this dream would not be a million miles away?

Am I just dreaming here? Is this something other people would like to see?



And, back to reality!

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Sometimes I have an urge to gut a netbook and make a replacement mainboard with an FPGA

I wonder if its possible to identify a common (maybe older) laptop that would serve as a doner... Dell D600 or one of the other common Dell's maybe?

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What hinders you from identifying a donor laptop?

I'm a programmer with over 15 years experience in many different languages... Unfortunately, I'm only a novice when it comes to playing around with the HW side of things.  Especially when it's something as complicated as this.

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Hey Mike... Any news?

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Sorry to hear you are having problems, it must be very frustrating to say the least... All of the prices you have quoted here are well within my budget... I just blew 90 euro's on an ARM controller for my minimig to tide me over till this baby's ready! :crazy:

I get the impression that everybody on this thread is sat on the edge of their seats in anticipation.  I for one can't wait!

Keep pushing on!

Replay RevB Pricing.

The exchange rates are all over the place, and until I get production scheduled and the boards in my hand these prices are subject to change.

The NRE costs for production are much higher than I expected, so I have to recover some of these costs over the first 50 boards.

So, the full card (with SVHS/Composite out) is looking like 220Euro today. The "light" card without SVHS/composite is 200Euro. Thats about the same as a Minimig with the memory upgrade, and what I've been saying all along.

The bad news is I have to pay sales tax here on the first boards, so thats an additional 25%. I'll include a EU plug power supply for the first 50 boards

Being totally honest up-front, boards after the first 50 will be at least 25% cheaper and sales tax will be payable on import if you are outside the EU so thats another 25%.

From the quotes I've been getting from China we should be able to get down to 150 Euros for the fully loaded board for production quantities, assuming there is enough interest after the first 50.

I have all the parts for the first 50 so they are going to happen for sure, after that I'll set up a list - if we get to 50 or more we'll do another run.

I'll mail all of you who have expressed an interested with a firm price when the board is finally ready for shipping.

Let me know what you think.
/Mike

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Whoohoo!

Is it Friday yet?

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Latest update, the boards have been shipped back to me so I hope to get them before the weekend

There is a video of the production as well, but I haven't got it yet.
/Mike

Thats really great news Mike! Can't wait to see one of these in action!

Anybody want to buy an A1200 with Blizzard 030?

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Are we nearly there yet?

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Sure, im as patient as anything... just wondering if there are any more snippets of info... like that video, or anything really.

2 more weeks!

:-)

But seriously, even without "feature creep" these things take time.  Considering Commodore bailed in '93/94, you'd think patience would be the order of the day in this community...  

FYI: In a few weeks this thread will be 2 years old!