FPGA Replay Board

[adonay]

This is so great can wait to be able to order it !

[digiflip]

So will the CE marking take a long time to do?

Please I think the atx adapter price is fair

[VuData]

TANGENT ALERT!

A couple of quick questions:
How long does it take to load a core on fpga devices? Is it an instant thing and is there a limit to the number of times you can write to a device (like flash)?

If I wanted to use a Keyrah interface would the core need to have support built in?

Thanks.

[Darrin]

TANGENT ALERT!

A couple of quick questions:
How long does it take to load a core on fpga devices? Is it an instant thing and is there a limit to the number of times you can write to a device (like flash)?

If I wanted to use a Keyrah interface would the core need to have support built in?

Thanks.

the core loads in the blink of an eye so you won't even have time to read the "credits" before the Amiga boots (abou 2 seconds approx).

Using a keyrah would require USB support.  Stick to a cheap PS2 keyboard.

[VuData]

the core loads in the blink of an eye so you won't even have time to read the "credits" before the Amiga boots (abou 2 seconds approx).

Using a keyrah would require USB support.  Stick to a cheap PS2 keyboard.

That's a shame. I'd hoped to use a keyrah for that genuine Amiga/C64 experience (but I've also just noticed that there is no A500 version).

[Darrin]

I understand.  I have an 8 bit and 16 bit Keyrah for WinUAE use, but while my A2000 and 3000 have original keyboards, I use PS2 PC keyboards on my FPGA Amigas, A4000 and A1200 towers and to be honest, I hardly notice.  plus F12 brings up the OSM and the might keyboards stop at F10.  :-)

[Ezrec]

Here's my custom FPGA Arcade case, made out of frosted acrylic and 1960's phenolic plastic:

[amigadave]

Will it include cut-outs for the daughter board?

I'd be up for one at 10-15 euro's.

Partially cut openings that could be easily removed later for the ports on the daughter card, for the USB and Ethernet ports would be a good idea, so we all don't have to replace the back plane when the daughter card is perfected and ready for sale.  The price is fine with me at 10 to 15 euro's.

How is the testing and assembly of the remaining 48 boards going?

How many of those are spoken for, or more importantly, how many FPGA Arcade Replay boards are available for people to buy.  If the answer is they are all reserved for people waiting for them already, when will the next batch of FPGA Arcade Replay boards be produced and how many are you planning for the next batch?  50, 100, 200?  Have you received lots of interest and requests to purchase the FPGA Arcade Replay boards from outside the Amiga community, like from the Retro-Arcade communities, or the Atari community?

[fishy_fiz]

@Ezrec

Heh, I kinda like that although Im not entirely sure why. It's both ugly, but appealing at the same time  
For some reason it (to me at least) looks like a prop from the Jackie Chan movie "Around The World In 80 Days", which while being very family oriented I enjoyed.

[michel3105]

@Ezrec

It's got a steampunk look, which is just appropriate!...

[DrDekker]

@michel3105 - I'll second that!
 
It's looks great - like something out of Chaos Engine - very fitting!
 
All Ezrec needs now is a flat screen monitor done up with a heavy gothic frame in gold leaf to complete the look!

[TheGoose]

Here's my custom FPGA Arcade case, made out of frosted acrylic and 1960's phenolic plastic:

Neat, where did you get the 1960s stuff? Reminds me of old TV materials.

[Ezrec]

My father-in-law got the 1960's phenolic from the back of his design studio, where a student had hauled in a huge sheet of it for a project a few decades ago.

The acrylic is new, just sandblasted lightly on one side to give it that frosted look.

[alexh]

@MikeJ

I've got a new toy on my desk. It's on loan, but it's a Virtex-7 2000T. This baby would take a full Amiga Chipset + CPU (many times over) and early runs with Synplify + ISE have MiniMig 68k meeting timing easily constrained at 100MHz

Shame it cost over $100k

[JimS]

@MikeJ

I've got a new toy on my desk. It's on loan, but it's a Virtex-7 2000T. This baby would take a full Amiga Chipset + CPU (many times over) and early runs with Synplify + ISE have MiniMig 68k meeting timing easily constrained at 100MHz

Shame it cost over $100k

Xilinx has announced the first shipments of its Virtex-7 2000T Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The Virtex-7 2000T is the world’s highest-capacity programmable logic device – it contains 6.8 billion transistors, providing customers access to 2 million logic cells. This is equivalent to 20 million ASIC gates, which makes these devices ideal for system integration, ASIC replacement, and ASIC prototyping and emulation.

6.8 billion transistors don't come cheap, eh? ;-)

[Fats]

@MikeJ

I've got a new toy on my desk. It's on loan, but it's a Virtex-7 2000T. This baby would take a full Amiga Chipset + CPU (many times over) and early runs with Synplify + ISE have MiniMig 68k meeting timing easily constrained at 100MHz

Shame it cost over $100k

I have now one of these on my desk. Somewhat less powerful but also less costly .
Also don't have the commercial software with it, so I am interested to see what IP I will be missing.
Unfortunately did not find a time to start it up yet.

greets,
Staf.