FPGA Replay Board

[psxphill]

Yet, having all in one single cable is of course very nice, but I would gues that it's possible to get a DVI2HDMI adapter which ALSO has a little jack-plug on it so you can feed the adaper with audio that is then carried on thru the hdmi cable to the TV.

I don't think it's that easy as hdmi uses digital audio & the person that makes the cable will have to pay the license fee.
 
I'm sure not paying this much for it.
 
http://www.futureshop.co.uk/atlona-dvi-with-analogdigital-audio-to-hdmi-converter-and-embedder-p-4338.html
 
I don't think my tv can take analogue audio when it's displaying hdmi. So it is a bit of a compromise.

[freqmax]

No S/P-dif output on the board !?
(or any other digital audio)

[espskog]

I set my controls for the heart of the amplifier instead, and not the (so often) crappy internal speakers of monitors

[freqmax]

Digital output is still desirable. But can I agree most TV speakers sucks big time.

[mikej]

Lets add a electrical RCA SPDIF digial output then on the daughter board.

I'll also add it to the core at some point, so you can wire it off the patch pins on the base card to an RCA panel mount connector with signal + ground pair. It will not meet the correct drive specs, but should work fine.

Best,
Mike

[freqmax]

S/P-dif is the right direction. But even that interface suck. HDMI at least has some error protection for its sound transport.

If the S/P-dif port packet data can be modified to use CRC or similar it would useful for external FPGA/CPLD based adapters.

[mikej]

S/P-dif is the right direction. But even that interface suck. HDMI at least has some error protection for its sound transport.

If the S/P-dif port packet data can be modified to use CRC or similar it would useful for external FPGA/CPLD based adapters.

It has parity so a receiver can tell you if it's getting errors.
Embedded audio does have ECC but I haven't seen any hardware which bothers to do the correction.

Generally a link will work perfectly or not at all... at audio rates over short distances it should be pretty robust.

/MikeJ

[VuData]

Forget digital output - any idea if it's possible to build a cable to connect a 1084S to the DVI port? Apologies if that's a stupid question but some days I just need to sit in front of a 1084S.

[mikej]

Forget digital output - any idea if it's possible to build a cable to connect a 1084S to the DVI port? Apologies if that's a stupid question but some days I just need to sit in front of a 1084S.

Sure - you use the RGB TV out mode here, with a DVI to VGA adapter.
I output composite sync on H sync and a logic high on V sync for Scart switching.
Then use a VGA to Scart or VGA to 9 pin D cable. I do this here.
/MikeJ

[VuData]

Sure - you use the RGB TV out mode here, with a DVI to VGA adapter.
I output composite sync on H sync and a logic high on V sync for Scart switching.
Then use a VGA to Scart or VGA to 9 pin D cable. I do this here.
/MikeJ

Great. Cheers Mike.

[freqmax]

Proberbly better signal/noise ratio with a direct DVI to SCART cable

[wolfchild]

Proberbly better signal/noise ratio with a direct DVI to SCART cable

Good luck finding such a cable!  Failing that, you can't go very wrong buying one of my VGA to SCART cables

I've supplied quite a few such cables for the Minimig in the past.  Incidentally, as per mikej's post, these work also for the Replay if you use a DVI to VGA converter.  I have a couple handfuls of the new model cable left if anyone's interested in good old analogue video.

Cheers!
Edwin

[VuData]

I've got a 1084S-P and a 1085. Neither of which have SCART. Gutted.

[psxphill]

I've got a 1084S-P and a 1085. Neither of which have SCART. Gutted.

I built a SCART to 1084 converter, it's not that hard.

[freqmax]

Good luck finding such a cable!  Failing that, you can't go very wrong buying one of my VGA to SCART cables

Finding?.. Make!

[Lurch]

So is it possible to buy this board? Almost thinking about buying a minimig as the price seems reasonable, but if I can get my hands on a replay it might be a better option :-)