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Offline Belial6

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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #764 on: June 14, 2011, 10:28:48 PM »
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But what will you do when applications are produced that require more? You're screwed.


Nope.  Not screwed.  When applications are produced that require more, we buy an FPGAArcade 2.  I can't imagine that bloat is going to be so fast that we will be running out of 128M in the next year or two.

No matter how much power Mike puts on the board, it will always have the potential to need more.  By allowing feature creep to prevent a proper roll out, the only way that adding more memory would prevent someone from running out is by having the board never completed in the first place.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #765 on: June 14, 2011, 11:13:49 PM »
No feature creep on the main board - the B02 board is production ready as far as I can tell. Everything seems to fit and we are processing the manufacturing data.
FPGAs should be delivered next week then we are good to go.

I added some pics on
http://www.fpgaarcade.com

Note I also have the new ATX power control board back as well. The chips to build it with arrive at the weekend.
/MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #766 on: June 15, 2011, 12:24:59 AM »
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No matter how much power Mike puts on the board, it will always have the potential to need more.  By allowing feature creep to prevent a proper roll out, the only way that adding more memory would prevent someone from running out is by having the board never completed in the first place.


Yep, I'm always reminded of the old wives tale that whatever size hard drive you buy is will always be exactly half of what you need - so just buy it and upgrade later.  :D
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #767 on: June 15, 2011, 12:29:57 AM »
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No feature creep on the main board - the B02 board is production ready as far as I can tell. Everything seems to fit and we are processing the manufacturing data.
FPGAs should be delivered next week then we are good to go.

I added some pics on
http://www.fpgaarcade.com

Note I also have the new ATX power control board back as well. The chips to build it with arrive at the weekend.
/MikeJ


Hi Mike,

are these the FPGA Arcade boards in China ready to ship or do I have you confused with someone else?  ;)


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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #768 on: June 15, 2011, 12:58:58 AM »
I think 128MB will be fine for now, it could take a very long time for someone to write some 68k AGA code that would require more than 128mb to run (eg FPGA specific code).
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #769 on: June 15, 2011, 01:16:01 AM »
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Hi Mike,

are these the FPGA Arcade boards in China ready to ship or do I have you confused with someone else?  ;)



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Lol, was wondering who'd post that :D
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #770 on: June 15, 2011, 02:41:32 AM »
I need a pan to collect all the drool that is coming out of my mouth right now.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #771 on: June 15, 2011, 02:47:11 AM »
That is good to hear.  I really am looking forward to being able to buy one, and I am doing my best to remain patient.  And that is really hard!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #772 on: June 15, 2011, 03:00:51 AM »
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No feature creep on the main board - the B02 board is production ready as far as I can tell. Everything seems to fit and we are processing the manufacturing data.
FPGAs should be delivered next week then we are good to go.

I added some pics on
www.fpgaarcade.com

Note I also have the new ATX power control board back as well. The chips to build it with arrive at the weekend.
/MikeJ

Sweeeeeeet!  I cannot wait to get my crubby mitts on this board. :banana:

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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #773 on: June 15, 2011, 05:19:34 AM »
>My "real" Amiga never had more than 13MB, and I was never pressed for space

Because you have a CPU not very powerfull !


>I think 128MB will be fine for now, it could take a very long time for someone to write some 68k AGA code that would require more than 128mb to run (eg FPGA specific code)

128 Mb or 256 Mb will be not enough soon too : remember the A500. At the begining 512 Kb was enough for most of the games/demos. But quickly, 1 Mb was required...

512 Mb only on the Natami = big mistake...


@mikej & @yaqube

It's your product, do what you wants ! I'm only writting here what I mean.

Remember well that SDRam is old now and not used very much on the market these days.
Brokers in China perfectly know that and have only one goal : sell. So, you can discuss and purchase one 32 Mb module at 1.50~2.00 USD I'm sure...
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #774 on: June 15, 2011, 05:27:49 AM »
Want one for sure but how do i get yaqube add on board are you selling it or yaqube is and is there a list somewhere for it??
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #775 on: June 15, 2011, 06:39:20 AM »
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Want one for sure but how do i get yaqube add on board are you selling it or yaqube is and is there a list somewhere for it??


I don't believe there is a list yet as it is still being worked on.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #776 on: June 15, 2011, 06:59:59 AM »
Good but I want in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not that i would retire any of my Amiga's i would use it along side them.. dam running out of room in the retro computer room fast! may have to just have one Apple IIE or IIGS and one C64 or C128 set up there instead of one of each... Hate you guys !!! :D
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #777 on: June 15, 2011, 07:08:19 AM »
cant people use virtual ram which would load from either sd card slot or micro sd slot on daughter board?

or would sd be too slow ie is class 10 too slow?

ie http://aminet.net/search?query=virtual+memory
« Last Edit: June 15, 2011, 07:21:33 AM by digiflip »
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #778 on: June 15, 2011, 08:20:15 AM »
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128 Mb or 256 Mb will be not enough soon too : remember the A500. At the begining 512 Kb was enough for most of the games/demos. But quickly, 1 Mb was required...

Could you give some concrete examples of what you would realistically want to do on a 68k Amiga that requires more than 128 Mb RAM? 68k developers thankfully don't seem to be in a hurry to climb the curves of Moore's Law.

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cant people use virtual ram which would load from either sd card slot or micro sd slot on daughter board?

or would sd be too slow ie is class 10 too slow?

ie http://aminet.net/search?query=virtual+memory

If it works with a real Amiga hard disk, I don't see why it wouldn't work on this board.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #779 from previous page: June 15, 2011, 09:32:33 AM »
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Hi Mike,

are these the FPGA Arcade boards in China ready to ship or do I have you confused with someone else?  ;)


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