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Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« on: April 19, 2009, 06:28:53 PM »
I decided to take some time out from reading about Amiga news (or lack of it) and following all the long message threads about Amiga Inc vs everyone else. I was getting a headache :(

So logged in today and still nothing really new, was hoping for some new Amiga box to be released :(

I guess I can go on dreaming about it as I sit here on my Vista box at work wishing I wasnt :)

I will dig out my Amiga HDD image and load it up on the PC when I get home hopefully to get a fix for another couple of months :)

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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2009, 06:47:45 PM »
FPGA Arcade have a board for ~200 EUR that will proberbly offer some nice re-implementations of Amiga in the following months.

I guess you haven't missed Minimig ..? ;)
 

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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2009, 07:00:41 PM »
Everything is under control!
 

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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2009, 07:00:46 PM »
There has been some good news such as Indivision AGA for 4000/CD32 and the new SAM-Flex boards are also imminent.

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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2009, 08:06:00 PM »
The FPGA Arcade board looks interesting. Have been following the minimig, would be great to have one of those.

Not really interested in the SAM, just doesnt match up with my visions of what an Amiga is. It's missing that vibe you get, you know the one where it's xmas morning :-) The Indivision looks great although I'd need to purchase a CD32 or a 4000?

Being from the bottom of the globe doesnt help, is there someone selling minimig's for the New Zealand market? :-)

Might have to start attending garage sales and computer fairs to see if I can start my collecting again :-)
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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2009, 08:15:30 PM »
That FPGA Arcade is really interesting, have bookmarked it :D
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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2009, 08:33:18 PM »
We ship to New Zealand and Australia on a weekly basis.  We are awaiting more Minimig stock shortly.  Thanks!
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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2009, 09:09:53 PM »
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Being from the bottom of the globe doesnt help, is there someone selling minimig's for the New Zealand market? :-)


Yeah, it's a pain! Shipping = $$$lots and the exchange rate doesn't help either!

But you're not alone!

I'm also very interested in the FPGA Arcade - far more so than the Minimig due to the additional possibilities it presents.

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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2009, 11:42:44 PM »
I'd be even more interested when/if it supports AGA  :-D
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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2009, 12:16:31 AM »
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Yeah, it's a pain! Shipping = $$$lots and the exchange rate doesn't help either!


Yeah, might just hang out for the FPGA Arcade and hope I can get some classic Amiga gear locally (while trying to avoid the over priced auctions on Trademe ;))
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Re: Well I stayed away for afew months and..
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2009, 12:28:54 AM »
Looking at the fpgaarcade schematic one can see that a XC3S1200E-FG320 FPGA used. And that there is no CPU on the board.

It's possible to squeeze in Amiga custom chips + 68000 softcore in the Minimig XC3S400 (barely?). Which has 3x less "gates". So this XC3S1200E FPGA should be able to handle both the core Amiga custom chips and standard 68000 cpu. However I think it's likely possible to implement AGA and 68020.
I hope the dynamic-ram memory is fast enough to update the required resolutions. The 16 bit wide DDR type should have no problem to handle this however at ~264 Mbyte/s.

So the path to Amiga 1200, or maybe even A3000, A4000 is open. I miss the onboard Ethernet thoe.. :P