minimig/replay/natami

[Louis Dias]

The AGA minimig project looks pretty slick.

Im hopeful for Natami but its very much a "it'll be there when its there". I do wish there were more "proof of concept" stuff though

The fact that Minimig/CloneA/FPGArcade exist is a "proof of concept" for NATAMI.

Infact the FPGArcade board might be able to be used to test the N050 cpu that the NATAMI team are designing.

One hand can wash the other with these projects...

[rkauer]

Didnt MikeJ (Right person ?) say that the first FPGAArcade boards go to production, like Today or something ?

 Minimig AGA.

[whiteb]

Minimig AGA.

Didnt Yaqube say that the AGA core wont fit in to the FPGA of a minimig ?, so at least, the video he has of AGA running, was on a FPGAArcade board ?

Unless you want to totally redesign the Minimig board to accept a *MUCH* more dense FPGA.

[dr.zeissler]

FPGA - ACRADE / MINIMIG

- is it true that the fpga-arcade-board will be all-in-one ?
- will it be possible to play amiga-ecs and amiga-aga games on it ?
- will it also be able to play c64 and atari-st games ?
- is it as good as the alreday released "minimig" (for amiga) or will there be differences in the amiga-rebuild ?
- will there be a nice enclosure, or is it just the board ?
- i have read nothing about the price ? how much will it be ?
 
i want to buy an lcd and use it for all retro-things. it must be a 15" 1024x768 lcd panel in order to get crispy clear picture for the voodoo2-sli bundle.
the plan is to connect 4 machines with "aten kvm petite 4" with one lcd.
which 15" 4:3 1024x768 lcd/tft should i buy in order to also support of the 31,5 Khz 50 hz native output of the minimig/fpga-board ?

if there is no such tft/lcd; which one is highly recommended in order to get the best looking image for minimig/fpa-arcade ?
the original 1084s monitor was about 13", so i think the smaller the lcd, the better the image? is that true ?  

Thx
Doc

[mikej]

- is it true that the fpga-arcade-board will be all-in-one ?
  yes, it will support multiple cores from an initial boot menu.

- will it be possible to play amiga-ecs and amiga-aga games on it ?
  yes.
- will it also be able to play c64 and atari-st games ?
  yes
- is it as good as the alreday released "minimig" (for amiga) or will there be differences in the amiga-rebuild ?
  modified code built on the same codebase, so at least as good as.

- will there be a nice enclosure, or is it just the board ?
  just the board for now, people are working on cases. It fits in a mini-itx case.

- i have read nothing about the price ? how much will it be ?
  mmm still working the numbers.
/MikeJ

[dr.zeissler]

thanks mike!

- do you have any suggestions for the best small ftf/lcd-monitor ?
- someone told me that the fpga's need to be reprogrammed for each "rebuild" (i.g. if i choose amiga und after that c64) and that will damage the fpgas in a short time peroid ?

Thx
Doc

[mikej]

I've got a LG M227WD as it was cheap and takes in 15K RGB (scart) and svhs/composite as well as HDMI. It is bad at re-sizing, but you get what you pay for.

The FPGAs are like a memory, you can reprogram it as many times as you want without any problem. It forgets the configuration when the power goes off.

The boot menu takes care of this, you select the platfom you want and it will reconfigure the FPGA. It takes a few seconds.
/Mike

[dr.zeissler]

thx again mike! that sounds really great! hopefully this is not too expensive ;-)

[dr.zeissler]

everyone who owns/uses a minimig should tell the world,
which display he uses, a link to a picture would be helpfull.
http://www.opencircuits.com/Minimig_display_compatibility

i expect this one would be good, because it is not so big, but it syncs only above 56hz.
http://www.bluechipit.com.au/content/PDF_Files/AU25048_spec.pdf