MiniMig with AGA

[vidarh]

The kickstart-ROM I guess will have to be "found" by users ,

Or they can just buy Amiga Forever.

And I'm sure Cloanto would be open to a deal with Mike to have it pre-installed if their license allows them to do that.

[kolla]

Or they can just buy Amiga Forever.

That prompts for a question, for yaqube I suppose - will the minimig core for FPGAArcade support cloanto's keyfile?

[mikej]

My consideration is mainly that any PCB layout bugs, presuming components are OK. If there is any layout mismatch even simple things like footprints. Then correcting 54 boards by hand is no easy task....

10 boards are built first. If they check out ok then the remaining boards are built while the SMD machines are still configured.

The differences to the RevA board are fairly small and I have already checked out all the footprints for the new bits (I have the PCB in front of me). The RevB board was always designed to be a low-risk change from the RevA...hopefully.

MikeJ

[mikej]

I have a couple techy questions about the FPGA Arcade board.

What FPGA doe sit use?(Sorry if I missed that)

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It's a Xilinx Spartan3e 1600. It can re-configure itself by talking to the ARM controller which will reload it from the SD card.

/MikeJ

[pampers]

Sorry if that was mentioned before but will that board have a 68020 emulation as well? Does it depend on hw of sw side of minimig?

[vidarh]

That prompts for a question, for yaqube I suppose - will the minimig core for FPGAArcade support cloanto's keyfile?

The keyfile just needs to be eor'd byte for byte with the kickstart, so it'd be easy to support, but it's just as easy to do so with a tiny script.

[mikej]

Good news.

The solder paste stencils have been ordered. These are expensive and needed for real production. The placement machines are being programmed....
/Mike

[Brosol]

How well would Mp3 playing be on the FPGA Arcade board...eg CPU usage, etc

[NovaCoder]

It's a shame one of the few remaining Amiga 'players' aren't involved with this promising product (eg AmigaKit, ACube, Vesalia, Jens) to get it out quickly and market it properly.

[freqmax]

At least Jens has his own A-Clone in, so his interest may be affected

The FpgaArcade board is not ready yet anyway. Like Minimig were at its release.

[Crom00]

Isn't the Clone A project retired? I thought I remember reading there were some legal issues? So is anyone going to find out if Amiga Inc still exists or if they own the Amiga chipset and OS?

[mikej]

It's a shame one of the few remaining Amiga 'players' aren't involved with this promising product (eg AmigaKit, ACube, Vesalia, Jens) to get it out quickly and market it properly.

I have been approached by several distributors actually.

They don't add any value at the moment, until the design is complete and stable there is no point marketing it - there is quite enough vapor-ware in this industry already. I'm not interested until we have a product.

There is no problem ramping this to high volume production once we have the prototypes.

It is a generic platform, so next we have to decide what platforms will be available at launch. /Mike

[slestebe]

Price is not a problem for me. I want one.

[kolla]

@mikej

Sorry for using a cliché, but kudos for keeping it real - the last thing this project needs at this point is hype

[spans]

Hi All, just a quick question, Hi Mike, have any of the boards been produced yet, very keen to see one in action for real??

[mikej]

Should happen this week. The missing connector I have been waiting ages for arrived today.

I am packing the kit of components now.
/Mike