FPGA Replay Board

[wrath of khan]

A few questions about the fpga arcade board. The amiga part is it faster or improved over an aga machine? As i understand it we can flash a hardware system to the board thru' software and it can mimic a variety of systems?What percentage of compatability is there for the amiga/st other systems?What are the benefits now or for the future for the fpga arcade over a regular amiga?I assume we can run roms/games on it and it can be like an arcade system.Is their a casing planned.etc.Lot's of questions i know.Im not a technical computer guy so any responses are appreciated thanks.

[wrath of khan]

The bare FPGA supports HDF files (hard drive images) on the SD card (supports 2 drives).  Last time I spoke to Jakub, his daughterboard was suposed to have a micro SD card slot which would act like a real hard drive (not a HDF).

This is sounding more promising to me now.Coupled with lorianos miggy case this could be sweet.How powerful will this be?Any chance of getting a browser to run etc? I hope mike gets the new website up soon and provides more info.

[wrath of khan]

mike mentions on his site about a guy wanting to sell the fpga arcade in a case assembled.Must be loriano pagni id say.This is the way i will go with this.Would the daughterboard fit in the case with the fpga arcade or would it be seperate.Pardon my ignorance.

[wrath of khan]

So in essence the fpga arcade should be a more powerful a1200 with a high compatability rate.What percentage of compatability to old software should we expect.Will it be able to function as essentially a new and faster aga amiga computer? Also the other accelerator ram upgrade thingy project for the a500 looks sweet.Lots of cool miggy stuff about now.What to buy.With lorianos case+daughterboard+fpgaarcade this will be a wallet drought.

[wrath of khan]

We aim for 100% compatibility, but with additional features which can be enabled or disabled.
High resolution video out (DVI/HDMI), new audio DAC, USB, ethernet etc.
/MikeJ

Sold! Im in.Gotta have one.will wait till its commercial though as I want one set up with the daughterboard in lorianos awesome miggy case.Hope you update the website soon as im eager to learn more about this project.

[wrath of khan]

I started testing software on the base FPGA Arcade along with the Minimig v1.1 and Chameleon64 (obviously I was testing AGA versions on the FPGA Arcade and OCS/ECS versions on the others).  I was launching them from WHDload first and if that failed then I would try from ADF files.  Most software worked, but as Mike was about to release a new core I shelved the testing because I didn't want to have to retest stuff all over again.

any chance of the core update Mike?

Cool.Thanks darrin.This should be a nice new toy for me.

[wrath of khan]

Maybe mike J should use a kickstarter campaign if he needs to help fund fpgaarcade in some form or another.Heres hoping for another miggy project from mike j in the future.A handheld miggy/would be sweet.Hell if someone made the fpga arcade board into a handheld id bite.

[wrath of khan]

Mike J. Any eta on the new fpgaarcade website? This project is really cool.

[wrath of khan]

Im curious as to precisely what we can expect from one of these with a daugtherboard etc the final specs etc

 Any ETA on the website update mike?
More info would be nice.  

Still im getting one of these in the daddys x500 case+daughterboard.

[wrath of khan]

This is great news!!! It sound like the next board run might be available around christmas and I might be getting myself a christmas present.

Will the daddys x500 case be ready by then though as thats what im getting the fpga arcade put in. will it be easy to add the daughterboard later I wonder when its released.

[wrath of khan]

hmm this is starting to sound better and better.
Im looking forward to the fpga arcade site being updated with more info about this too. Must fix my miggy 500 too. Might get an a4000 in the future or cd tv.

[wrath of khan]

This is interesting me more and more. Will be fun to play around with this in the daddys case.

[wrath of khan]

There are a lot of old games which run in 640x512.  Will they be 100% correctly viewable on the Replay board when connected to a modern TV over DVI/HDMI?


I am not really clear if they will display right or if they would appear in the upperleft corner of the display and have the top and left flow off the screen in an incredibly annoying manner.  (Just like I have seen a ton of million$ PC gamez do when connected to my modern HDMI TV).

Good luck, keep up the good work.  I am planning to use every single byte of RAM on the Replay + 060 board.

What type of game are you thinking of making if you don't mind me asking?

[wrath of khan]

^^^^^^Id guess so as I never got any responses from 2 0r 3 e-mails that I sent.
Its possible many e-mails have not reached him judging by the amount of people that have posted about it.

[wrath of khan]

support[AT]fpgaarcade[DOT]com is the one i used. It was months ago though. Loriano(the daddy) has said he should be able to provide me with an fpga arcade already fitted inside the x500 case as I would have difficulty doing such an operation myself.