FPGA Replay Board

[freqmax]

mikej/yaqube, That USB port on the ARM. Is it possible to access it from the virtual Amiga in any constructive way?

[billt]

FPGAArcade is surely destined to be a fun hardware emulation platform. Not meant as a replacement computer.

And I'm sure Mike might be suprised that we bonkers Amiga weirdos want to treat it as a full computer replacement. But as soon as we became able to do Amiga stuff with it, desire began to build to have a more and more advanced Amiga from it.

Natami may be a more appropriate choice for a computer replacement, as it has a normal PCI slot. Perhaps FPGA Arcade 2 will embrace the idea and take on more of a computer replacement form. Though I think it'd me cool to put a (or some) big FPGA(s) on some standard computer module and have whatever shape carrier for that standard we want, including a full-out ATX.

[digiflip]

Yeah I think Fpga Arcade 2 will be something to look forward to. No offence to Natami but they are elitest.

[Iggy]

Yeah I think Fpga Arcade 2 will be something to look forward to. No offence to Natami but they are elitest.

I'd second that. And the Natami is a closed project.
While I look forward to seeing what they introduce, I'm still more likely to support Mike's boards.

[TheBilgeRat]

Elitist?  I like them both - I am gonna buy one of each

[freqmax]

Which computer will be the easiest to revive when the group behind it dissapears. The one with code and schematic or the one without?

[digiflip]

yeah they are elitist every time I mention fpga replay on there forums or anything they feel is competition to themselves they delete the posts

[minator]

No offence to Natami but they are elitest.

Thought that was BBC micro owners :-P

[AJCopland]

yeah they are elitist every time I mention fpga replay on there forums or anything they feel is competition to themselves they delete the posts

I've not deleted any of your posts, I'll raise it in the team forum and find out who has.

I've always said that I want one of Mikes boards and I just wish that these things were easier to finish and have manufactured so that I could get one!

Andy

[Louis Dias]

yeah they are elitist every time I mention fpga replay on there forums or anything they feel is competition to themselves they delete the posts

Actually, if you are who I think you are, your posts were trollish.
The Natami team members have spoken with MikeJ quite amicably.  When I posted about Arcade Replay being "done", it was well recieved there and Gunnar even mentioned in retrospect the the projects had some overlap and could have collaborated more but from the original intentions he didn't see much.

I think this thread best describes NATAMI's "openness" best:
http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=2¬e=38307

Much like MikeJ's board is OT there, so is NATAMI here.  I just dislike misinformation.

[Forcie]

@digiflip

If you indeed are the "Matthew Simon William La" posting on the Natami forums, (which I am almost sure of because you write in the same very recognisable manner), then your posts were not deleted because of any "elitism" but because they were pure trolling/FUD-spreading. And as everyone can see, you continue posting the same kind of crap both here and on the Natami forums. Just use some common sense, act like an adult, and you will not get moderated.

We have nothing against the FPGAArcade, which seems to turn out to be an awesome system, and several Natami Team members do want to get one and have publicly stated they do so.
I myself am very keen on hooking one up to the JAMMA connector of my cabinet. That does not mean that I'd like to troll around on forums of other multi-system-replicating FPGA systems.

[AJCopland]

@Digiflip,

Well I posted, Bartek pointed out the discussion and, as Forcie has said, it was basically for posting lots of stuff just like the above. Not in any helpful or constructive way but basically as a put down to the Natami team.

This is now seriously off topic. That topic being MikeJ's FPGAArcade board.

I think that if you want to vent about Natami then there's plenty of threads full of people with negative opinions about it so that's the last I'll reply regarding it in this one

Andy

[AJCopland]

PS: sorry for derailing your thread MikeJ.
Now hurry up and get everyone your boards!!!

Andy

[alexh]

Perhaps FPGA Arcade 2 will embrace the idea and take on more of a computer replacement form.

I do hope not. It should be a cost reduction. The price is it's biggest hurdle and once the first wave has paid for the initial NRE then a cost reduction (not necessarily feature reduction) should be next.

[kedawa]

USB is expansion enough as far as I'm concerned.

[AmigaPixel]

Me Too! I feel like a kid in a toy store again.