FPGA Replay Board

[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.

[mongo]

No I actually got the right quote from them saying it is 625 Euro which is equivalent to my currency as 825.

"Vesa FPGA Arcade" Promotion :It includes the FPGA Arcade's board in an Antec Mini ITX Case, the ATX Power adapter, the IO BackPanel, one 8GB SD Card, the 90W external power supply of the Mini ITX case, all fully assembled !You'll just have to copy your kickstart, ADF and HDF files on the SD Card and power on the board with the power button of the case !
525,00 €
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525,00 €

Shipping and handling is 100 euro.

So yeah it is going to cost me 825 dollars...so if that is going to cost me 825 dollars what about accelerator? I am not saying that as an attack, I am saying that as a mean of determining how much I need to save up that is all.

Why would you order that bundle? It's a horrible deal. You're paying almost 300 euro for a $80 case and a $10 SD card, and insane shipping prices.

[AmigaClassicRule]

But I am not making this up I swear. I am talking to the person who is working with Mikej directly and this is the invoice he have send me. I am not mistaking at all. And it is going to cost me 820 dollars! Mikej can you confirm this please? Can you? No one is believing me and in the end I will be coughing up this much money and still no one believes me.

[AmigaClassicRule]

Why would you order that bundle? It's a horrible deal. You're paying almost 300 euro for a $80 case and a $10 SD card, and insane shipping prices.

Someone at least believes me! So what advice do you have? I do want to buy the board itself and then buy the parts separately I sorta want to have a full system. What recommendation do you have then?

[AJCopland]

So yeah it is going to cost me 825 dollars...

That's is an insanely terrible deal.

Buy the FPGAArcade from MikeJ - immediately financially better for MikeJ since you're not going through Vesalia.

Then buy the rest of the components locally, or at least from your own country, and avoid all of the other costs, taxes, and currency conversions etc.

You can then spend the money you save on the accelerator whenever it gets released.

What country are you in?

[AmigaClassicRule]

That's is an insanely terrible deal.

Buy the FPGAArcade from MikeJ - immediately financially better for MikeJ since you're not going through Vesalia.

Then buy the rest of the components locally, or at least from your own country, and avoid all of the other costs, taxes, and currency conversions etc.

You can then spend the money you save on the accelerator whenever it gets released.

What country are you in?

But I am buying it directly from MikeJ and it is going to cost me that much. I live in Canada. I need MikeJ to confirm me.

[ChaosLord]

Dear AmigaClassicRule:

I was quoted a price of 1015 Euros for a fully loaded Replay with all bells, whistles and gizmos and case and power supply and 64GB SDXC memory card, Mark VII Flux Capacitor and a little cage with Oomp Loompas running around to power the Replay during an electrical blackout.  (no mouse or keyboard, I have plenty) It was just a price estimate.

That was $1364.00 at the time.  I would have to sell a lot of TotalChaos's to pay for that :hat:

But due to changes in the exchange rate the price has now dropped to $1305.00 + I think I should downgrade to a 32GB memory card as they were cheaper per GB the last I checked a few months ago.  That could save me another $20.00 for an estimated price of $1285.00

So don't feel bad about the price you found.

What ppl are saying to you is that since you live in North America you can get standard cases and powersupplies and memory cards super super cheap.  Since you are in Canada you may have a real severe problem with Canadian Taxes from importing a product.   Canadian Government is very evil and they search most items coming into the country and charge you a giant tax for being evil and buying stuff (their opinion, not mine).  They don't like you to buy electronics from "evil" foreign countries so they punish you for it.  I have known ppl who had that problem decades ago.  Furthermore I read a lot of msgs on forums about the same problem happening in the modern times and they were buying from Britain, which is practically the same country!

If you decide to buy your own parts then please be sure to post here exactly what parts you bought, how much they were and how well they work.  Let us know if there are any little problems.  Some of us might copy you and buy the exact same parts as you.

[ChaosLord]

I don't see it listed at http://www.vesalia.de
I looked under hardware/complete systems and some other categories but I just don't see it listed.

[mongo]

Someone at least believes me! So what advice do you have? I do want to buy the board itself and then buy the parts separately I sorta want to have a full system. What recommendation do you have then?

Buy the board from MikeJ, then buy a case and an SD card from a local computer store.

[AmigaClassicRule]

Buy the board from MikeJ, then buy a case and an SD card from a local computer store.

What sort of cases that are compatible with it? Hey can I use the X500 case??

[freqmax]

The core of MikeJ offering is the FPGA Arcade and perhaps in the feature 060-addon. To do special one off nonstandard offerings is likely to cost more.
(as I understand it)

[AJCopland]

The pictures on MikeJ's site show it in an ITX (mini-ITX) case and I think he's said that the mounting holes are right for that. Yes I think you can use the X500 case.

[ChaosLord]

Would the 060 accellerator card fit into the X500 Plus case?

I won't buy an X500 Plus case.  I need a detached keyboard.
I am only asking for AmigaClassicRule's consideration.

[AmigaClassicRule]

Would the 060 accellerator card fit into the X500 Plus case?

I won't buy an X500 Plus case.  I need a detached keyboard.
I am only asking for AmigaClassicRule's consideration.

ChaosLord do you advice I sell my A1200 right now and take the money from it and buy the FPGA Replay directly from MikeJ and then the rest of the money I buy the case (as soon as you help me in finding a good case) and power supply etc? Then what ever money left I save up more and buy the daughterboard or do you advice I wait till the daughterboard is out?

The mere fact that FPGA Replay have build in RTG and 128 MB CHIP is SO appealing and the mere fact that a 060 @ 120 Mhz IS WAY faster than an Apollo if even if it was overclocked to 120 Mhz itself is SOOO luring! If i want to buy it from MikeJ directly how do I go about doing that and would I get some sort of tracking number to ease my mind?

[Mrs Beanbag]

I've a plan to build my own Amiga-layout keyboard at the moment, knowing me I'll never finish it mind you.

[mikej]

Hi,
The resellers are buying from me and assembling the systems.
You can buy the components directly from me, but I do not have time to offer detailed support. The price you were quoted includes the atx io panel and atx power switcher I assume. If you want an assembled, tested system I suggest you go with the reseller.



Best,
/MikeJ