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Offline mikej

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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #959 on: September 15, 2011, 08:09:01 PM »
"That bad with assemblers nearby?

Otherwise try at least to get one express mailed back for verification. And send som test-jig so the manufacturer can verify.Though anything "Chinese" should be heavily quality controlled ;)"

They will build the boards while I'm out there, and I will bring them back with me.
I can repair most build errors with the rework equipment I have here, but the assembly is normally pretty reliable.
Best,
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #960 on: September 15, 2011, 08:33:36 PM »
Complex resoldering of 50+ boards can be a pain ;)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #961 on: September 15, 2011, 09:37:36 PM »
Quote from: mikej;659421
The /dev/drupal is a development site, please use the main page for now.
The schematics are a few posts down.

Im having some trouble getting commitment from my assembler. I'm talking to another guy, but what will probably happen is I'll take the parts back to China on Tuesday next week and drop them off with the company which is doing the volume production.
This will actually speed up the volume deployment, but is more risky as I wanted to test the boards before paying for the set up and production stencils (which is kinda expensive).

Either way, I will have boards available by the end of the month.

The 68060 board is still being defined, although the prototype is running well.
It is unlikely to have pass-through connectors for SI reasons, but there are other IO pins on the main board which can be used. I will add a breakout connector for any spare pins.
/MikeJ

Great news Mike.  What an exciting project.:)

Mike
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #962 on: September 15, 2011, 09:59:47 PM »
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I love this project because you get:

1. real information
2. developer feedback from consumer input
3. they use Drupal
4. updates on production, with realistic timelines
5. less hype more real...
6. Did I mention it's real?

:hammer:

Are you gonna hook up UberCart and sell & ship through that ?

As much as I don't like drupal (but in this case i don't give a damn) you a re dead right. Nice to see such a great communication between users and developers.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #963 on: September 15, 2011, 10:08:47 PM »
Exciting times Mike. Am looking forward to handing over some money for such a worthy interesting project.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #964 on: September 15, 2011, 11:14:10 PM »
"Complex resoldering of 50+ boards can be a pain"
 
I can imagine. How many boards are being made? I can imagine he'd sell a few thousand over time. At least!
 
I sure want one of these to replace my now 6 month dead A1200.
 
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #965 on: September 16, 2011, 01:20:12 AM »
MikeJ has just given me permission to mention that I will be displaying the FPGA Arcade Replay Board at my table during the AmiWest 2011 Show, Oct. 21st to 23rd in Sacramento, CA.

This makes me very happy to know that I will have my board soon (or if worst case happens, MikeJ will lend me his personal board for the show).  I will have hand-outs to distribute to interested show attendees and have the board connected to a monitor to show it running several Amiga programs and/or games.  This will be in addition to my display of my MorphOS2.x computers running the latest version and Acill displaying his iPhone running AmigaOS3.x.  Going to be another great AmiWest Show!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #966 on: September 16, 2011, 11:35:23 AM »
Just inked the deal with the manufacturing company. Stencil production has started.
/MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #967 on: September 16, 2011, 01:41:27 PM »
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Just inked the deal with the manufacturing company. Stencil production has started.
/MikeJ

Champagne !
I'm sure there will be many more.
No doubt, when I read stuff like "Simply plug in our JAMMA connector expansion board, and you have a drop-in arcade board replacement."

Also, The new look of the website is really great !
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #968 on: September 16, 2011, 01:46:28 PM »
Awesome news MikeJ.
Thank you for the constant updates /cheer
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #969 on: September 16, 2011, 01:55:33 PM »
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Just inked the deal with the manufacturing company. Stencil production has started.
/MikeJ



Whoo Hoo, Congratulations Mr. MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #970 on: September 16, 2011, 02:23:46 PM »
Quote from: TheGoose;659461
I love this project because you get:

1. real information
2. developer feedback from consumer input
3. they use Drupal
4. updates on production, with realistic timelines
5. less hype more real...
6. Did I mention it's real?

:hammer:

Are you gonna hook up UberCart and sell & ship through that ?


I totally aggree with you there. Especially on #2 above. Mike actually took time to call me about an issue with 15kHz a few week back. That is what I call kick ass customer support :-) This is what's so cool about the Commodore-world...everybody cares :-)

Thumbs up to Mike and Yaqube. They do fantastic work!

@Mike -- yes, the Slay.org party was nice. I have never played pool for 7 hours straight before while listening to retromusic :-)


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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #971 on: September 16, 2011, 03:57:38 PM »
I hope they have enough capacity for us :)
/MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #972 on: September 16, 2011, 05:30:48 PM »
Quote from: mikej;659596
I hope they have enough capacity for us :)
/MikeJ


OMG!  It's the C=USA office in Florida!  :eek:
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #973 on: September 16, 2011, 05:43:50 PM »
C= Office?

Commodore resurrected? ;)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #974 from previous page: September 23, 2011, 08:41:20 AM »
I am pretty sure they do not pay those people a fortune to assemble things...yet the asian assemblers make the world go around :)
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