FPGA Replay Board

[freqmax]

Let's be happy if the baseboard makes it out of the door first..

[AJCopland]

Let's be happy if the baseboard makes it out of the door first..

Oh I will be, I'd love to get one of MikeJ's boards, but you must admit that image with the expansion board does look awesome

[freqmax]

What's the status of the project currently?

[digiflip]

What's the status of the project currently?

were waiting on mikej to sell his new batch of 40ty fpga arcade replays to his chosen 40ty new friends.

[gaula92]

Hmm... so when are we getting the board then? (mass production I mean)

[digiflip]

not sure, All I know his i might be able to buy one of the next batch of 40ty.

[gaula92]

not sure, All I know his i might be able to buy one of the next batch of 40ty.

Let's say I'd like to get three FPGA boards for me and two friends: where should I ask?

[jj]

not sure, All I know his i might be able to buy one of the next batch of 40ty.

 
Who do you keep writing 40 as 40ty ?
 
Do you write all numbers like that ?

[digiflip]

Dunno thought it looked better than forty

[bloodline]

Dunno thought it looked better than forty

Wouldn't you write 4ty then? Anyway, for the purposes of discussion 40 should be sufficient!

[mikej]

PCB B2 about to go to fabrication (tomorrow).
This is the optimized for production board and fixes the power-off issue and improves the DVI to audio spacing.

I'm off to China on Monday and will pick the boards up.

/MikeJ

[Darrin]

PCB B2 about to go to fabrication (tomorrow).
This is the optimized for production board and fixes the power-off issue and improves the DVI to audio spacing.

I'm off to China on Monday and will pick the boards up.

/MikeJ

Nice work Mike.  Have fun on your trip.  Unfortunately my board arrived 2 days after I left for my trip so I should finally get to play with it Saturday morning for a couple of hours before I fly to the UK.

[mikej]

I was going to ask you, it seemed to be taking a while to get across the pond.
Ah, so we will both be in th UK on Monday, I'm passing through on my way east.
Cheers,
Mike

[Darrin]

I was going to ask you, it seemed to be taking a while to get across the pond.
Ah, so we will both be in th UK on Monday, I'm passing through on my way east.
Cheers,
Mike

I'll be in London Sunday, Swansea on Monday and Cardiff Tuesday.  I'll try and pop in and visit AmigaKit...

[Motormouth]

I was using amiga professionally back in the days of OCS/ECs and have been in and out of the amiga seen over the last several years.

The first thing I have noticed, on this site, is the large variety of FPGA based Amiga compatibles out there, especially the Natami and FPGA Arcade (or is it the FPGA Replay).
All quite cool!
but I am a bit confused about the different versions of FPGA based Amiga compatibles out there!

Does anyone have a Compilation of features, a buyers guide if you will, of FPGA amigas?
I guess what I am really trying to understand, is what is the level compatibility?  (ie is Chameleon very compatible, or this MCC-216 very compatible?)
Can they play ocs, aga, rtg games?
What versions of ths AmigaoOS each can handle ?
How do you get floppies or .adf onto these things
How do you build a hard drive partition?
How do you get the Kickstart on these things?
Can one use these on a network?

Which kickstarts can etch of these things use.  1.3, 3.1, (a native 3.9 kickstart (not softbooted))?

What ports do each of these things have. joystick, serial, floppy, s-video, VGA, hdmi,  (example natami looks very complete)
what is the chipset (ie OCS/ECS, AGA, and RTG)
Which 680x0
Can one use whdload?

What is the Amiga experience?  somewhat subjective  (aka WinUAE is very cool, but isn't quite the experience as running an OCS game on an A500 or A2000)

I am assuming this is the non-complete list of the different FPGA amigas

Minimig  <---The start
Minimig AGA  <---has this been produced yet??
Chameleon (C64 cartridge, that has Ethernet and can run Amiga OS) <--- This is perhaps the most confusing to me.
C-One <--- isn't this developed as a c64 board
Multi Classic Computer (looks like it has a nice small package, but........)
FPGA Arcade  <---- in beta, can have emulated or a 680x0 daughter card (looks like everyone is excited about his one)
Natami <---- looks to be very complete (including floppy controller), can have emulated or a 680x0 daughter card
more???

[Darrin]

I am assuming this is the non-complete list of the different FPGA amigas

Minimig  <---The start
Minimig AGA  <---has this been produced yet??
Chameleon (C64 cartridge, that has Ethernet and can run Amiga OS) <--- This is perhaps the most confusing to me.
C-One <--- isn't this developed as a c64 board
Multi Classic Computer (looks like it has a nice small package, but........)
FPGA Arcade  <---- in beta, can have emulated or a 680x0 daughter card (looks like everyone is excited about his one)
Natami <---- looks to be very complete (including floppy controller), can have emulated or a 680x0 daughter card
more???

The Minimig is tried and tested, but I'd tell everyone to make sure they buy the 4MB version and not the 2MB.  I have one with the extra ARM board (which provides faster hard file access and easier upgrading).

Minimig AGA and FPGA Arcade are the same thing.  I have one of the last beta boards and MikeJ is off to China this week to run off a batch of "gold" boards for general sale.  It will also run other cores to give you other classic computers and arcade machine games.  A 68060 board with USB and other features is in development and running.

C-One needs a "Minimig" module to act as an ECS Amiga and can even use a real 2.5" hard drive.  However development is dead, some of the boards are buggy and it has been superceded by the Chameleon64.  I have one of these gathering dust.

Chameleon64 recently got a "Minimig" ECS core with a 68020 processor.  I haven't had a chance to load the core onto my cartridge and test it yet, but others have it working with a hard file and it should outperform the original Minimig v1.1 boards and have extra RAM.  You will need to plug it into a real C64 to have joystick ports but I've seen mutterings about the possibility of an adapter to provide these in "standalone" mode.

Multi-Classic-Computer:  I've seen pictures of it and adverts for it, but I have no idea if it even exists.

The Natami should be an advanced version of the basic FPGA Arcade with the most of the features of the FPGA expansion board included along with some other goodies.  It looks to be an advancement of the classic A1200/A4000 chipset.

As I see it, we have choices for everyone available:

Minimig v1.1:  Cheap ECS/68000 board for classic A500 gaming.
Chameleon:  An advanced C64 for power users with the bonus of a ECS/68020 Amiga included.
FPGA Arcade:  An AGA/68020 A1200 replacement with a 68060 expansion card option to make it an A4000 replacement.  Has the ability to load other cores and reproduce classic arcade machines.
Natami:  The Amiga 5000!

Exciting stuff!!!