FPGA Replay Board

[Lord Aga]

Is it possible to use an A4000 keyboard plugged into the PS2 socket?

^ This. Or any kind of big box Amiga keyboards via some adepter.

[Lord Aga]

Way to go Mike
Just keep pushing !

[Lord Aga]

I think I remember a video of FPGA Arcade doing some 50+ MB of Chip RAM.
It will probably be configurable.

[Lord Aga]

Enough with the god damn emulator discussion !
You poison each and every thread with it. Can't you call this exactly what it is ?
It is FPGA Replay ! Call it FPGA Replay ! When can I buy FPGA Replay ? What will be the price of this FPGA Replay ? What can I run on my FPGA Replay ? It may be an emulator. It may not be an emulator. Who the hell cares ! It's FPGA Replay and it will do stuff. Respect other people's work and don't be an A-hole !

[Lord Aga]

what kind of stuff do you want to see? Just tell us and we will see what we can do.

AB3D II The Killing Grounds !!!

[Lord Aga]

Why is "AB3D II The Killing Grounds" such a good testing software?

It's the slowest thing I have ever seen on my Amiga

[Lord Aga]

You're telling us in secret on a public forum?  

Well it's not like there are any Amiga-loonies who will pester him about details here on the looniest Amiga forum

[Lord Aga]

The FPGA Replay now with the case, power supply the whole set without the daughterboard costs 820 dollars,

Wut ?

[Lord Aga]

Well... yes. Pretty hard to add up to 820 bucks. Unless they are gold or something

[Lord Aga]

Surely it's a mistake of some sort
As you can see, the board is 200-ish EUR for all of us.
Rest of the equipment should not, by any means, be two times more expensive.

[Lord Aga]

Yup, don't worry. Our PAL TVs do 50Hz as basic frequency
Just to DVI to HDMI and you're all set.

[Lord Aga]

I am getting one of the FPGA boards from Mike to develop with.  I am releasing SuperCard Pro (SCP), which is a flux level disk copier, emulator, and other 'things'.  It is a similar form factor to the KryoFlux.  It uses nearly double the resolution of the KryoFlux and has 512KB of static RAM on board for track buffering.  It also has a micro-SD card slot so you can create and store raw or converted disk images.  For my USB interface, I am using the FTDI FT240X USB FIFO chip which has drivers for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.  I have already released preliminary information on the command structure for SCP.  Besides having a USB port, it also has a serial port (up to 1Mbps) that uses the exact same command set.  So, no USB interface is required.  You can connect a 3.5" PC floppy drive to the SCP (power comes from the floppy drive connector, via Y-cable) and use it as a stand alone device controlled by a PIC, AVR, ARM, etc. micro - or an FPGA device like Mike's.  There are commands to read the data at a flux level and convert it to Amiga MFM format, after which the data can be transferred via USB or serial.

This sounds cool But a little unclear. Can you please type a bit slower for us slower folks and explain a bit more ?
We will be able to connect this SCP to a Replay board, right ? And a PC floppy to it, right ? And read/write real floppies ?

[Lord Aga]

Jim, I'll send you a patch daughterboard as well for you to play with ...

Oh thank you, but I'm not Jim
And I wouldn't know what to do with it

[Lord Aga]

Allrighty then
Thank you for for your contribution Jim !

[Lord Aga]

//BTW - we're just after great Pixel Heaven party in Poland. You can take a look at some hardware porn from PH.13 here.

Hey, I saw a Franko 2 poster ! What's with that ?

[Lord Aga]

being able to use a real floppy drive

This is a great addition to FPGA Arcade Makes it more Amigaish !