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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1304 on: December 29, 2011, 03:08:02 AM »
tl;dr. ?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1305 on: December 29, 2011, 06:43:25 AM »
Quote from: Tension;673336
Getting sick of seeing this thread and thought i'd have a look to see what it was all about. I did and I have to say,  
@thread:

tl;dr.

Too long; Did not Read.

Well, with over 138,000 views, there are many of us that have been watching this thread very closely and like what we have seen.

If you need a summary of what the FPGA Arcade Replay board is, visit MikeJ's website and have a look around.

In just a few short words, I would describe it as a step above and beyond the MiniMig v1.1 that can run a modified core which includes AGA and is capable of running at a speed that is comparable to a 68020 @ 50MHz (or was that a 68030 @ 50MHz?).  The CPU is a softcore on the main Replay board, so it is only limited by the efficiency of the softcore code and the timing frequency of the FPGA itself.  It comes with 64mb RAM.

It will soon have a daughter card that will have additional RAM, USB ports, Ethernet, and a socket that you can install your own 68060 CPU into and clock it up to 100MHz or beyond, depending on which revision mask of the 68060 you provide for it.

It is a very promising project and MikeJ has been very receptive in listening to, and providing feedback to potential customers.

I showed the FPGA Arcade Replay board at the AmiWest 2011 Show last October and it generated a lot of excitement and interest.

I can't remember any other threads on this site that have had over 138,000 views and over 1,300 replies.  It is pretty clear that it will be a successful product when it is finally available in greater numbers.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1306 on: December 29, 2011, 10:31:31 AM »
Another thing is that it feels nice to have stated this thread :) And I expect that it will live on for a while aswell. Like the C64-DTV threads over at the petscii place. It was very nice while the C64DTV was in its glory days. Now that it is fully explored (more or less) -- interest has slowed down. I believe the FPGA Arcade board + its daughterboard will keep this thread alive for months to come.

And it is very impressing that Mike (and Yauqube?) follows it and replies to all our questions. Where does he find time :)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1307 on: December 29, 2011, 11:20:31 AM »
Quote from: amigadave;673356
Too long; Did not Read.

Well, with over 138,000 views, there are many of us that have been watching this thread very closely and like what we have seen.

If you need a summary of what the FPGA Arcade Replay board is, visit MikeJ's website and have a look around.

In just a few short words, I would describe it as a step above and beyond the MiniMig v1.1 that can run a modified core which includes AGA and is capable of running at a speed that is comparable to a 68020 @ 50MHz (or was that a 68030 @ 50MHz?).  The CPU is a softcore on the main Replay board, so it is only limited by the efficiency of the softcore code and the timing frequency of the FPGA itself.  It comes with 64mb RAM.

It will soon have a daughter card that will have additional RAM, USB ports, Ethernet, and a socket that you can install your own 68060 CPU into and clock it up to 100MHz or beyond, depending on which revision mask of the 68060 you provide for it.

It is a very promising project and MikeJ has been very receptive in listening to, and providing feedback to potential customers.

I showed the FPGA Arcade Replay board at the AmiWest 2011 Show last October and it generated a lot of excitement and interest.

I can't remember any other threads on this site that have had over 138,000 views and over 1,300 replies.  It is pretty clear that it will be a successful product when it is finally available in greater numbers.



Very cool.  Do we know how much its gonna cost yet?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1308 on: December 29, 2011, 11:23:32 AM »
Will it run OS3.9? And will 3.9 be able to use the USB ports? Also, how about some PCI slots? And maybe make it fit in an ATX case :)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1309 on: December 29, 2011, 04:24:10 PM »
Quote from: Tension;673369
Will it run OS3.9? And will 3.9 be able to use the USB ports? Also, how about some PCI slots? And maybe make it fit in an ATX case :)


I have it partially running OS3.9 at the moment (a couple of bugs/missing instructions in the soft CPU core are causing issues, but these will be fixed, or may already be fixed with new updates).  As a result, the USB stack will be available to 3.1 and 3.9.

I believe the plan is still to use the freely available Poseidon stack which, IMHO, is bloody fantastic (I use it on my A4000) with the Deneb.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1310 on: December 29, 2011, 05:27:41 PM »
A couple of questions :)

1. Is it possible to use a Scart/RGB cable with the arcade FPGA?

2. I know that some modern monitors have problems with Minimig because they don't go down to 50hz, and even if they do, sometimes the scrolling is far from perfect. As the A.FPGA has DVI out, if I connect DVI to HDMI (to a TV), will I get perfect scrolling everytime and of course 50hz support?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1311 on: December 29, 2011, 05:43:42 PM »
Quote from: Darrin;673398

I believe the plan is still to use the freely available Poseidon stack which, IMHO, is bloody fantastic (I use it on my A4000) with the Deneb.

Correct, we have licensed the stack and Jakub has it running on the daughter board.
/MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1312 on: December 29, 2011, 05:45:33 PM »
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A couple of questions :)

1. Is it possible to use a Scart/RGB cable with the arcade FPGA?

2. I know that some modern monitors have problems with Minimig because they don't go down to 50hz, and even if they do, sometimes the scrolling is far from perfect. As the A.FPGA has DVI out, if I connect DVI to HDMI (to a TV), will I get perfect scrolling everytime and of course 50hz support?


1 - yes, if you use a dvi to vga adapter you can use a standard minimig style Scart cable.

2 - If the TV supports 50Hz vertical then it will look fine. I am running it here with DVI to HDMI and it looks good, although the current shipping core does not have DVI enabled. I am working on this now.
/MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1313 on: December 29, 2011, 05:47:18 PM »
Quote from: mikej;673436
Correct, we have licensed the stack and Jakub has it running on the daughter board.
/MikeJ


Thanks for the confirmation there Mike.  It's a great stack and I personally use it to run a USB Ethernet dongle, floppy drive, hard drives, memory sticks, memory cards (via adapters) and DVD+RW.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1314 on: December 29, 2011, 05:50:33 PM »
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2 - If the TV supports 50Hz vertical then it will look fine. I am running it here with DVI to HDMI and it looks good, although the current shipping core does not have DVI enabled. I am working on this now.
/MikeJ


I guess all PAL TVs support 50Hz? Or I'm mixing things up?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1315 on: December 29, 2011, 05:53:54 PM »
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I guess all PAL TVs support 50Hz? Or I'm mixing things up?


Yep, PAL TVs will be OK.  You just have to watch out for some (most?) NTSC only TVs.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1316 on: December 29, 2011, 05:56:41 PM »
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Yep, PAL TVs will be OK.  You just have to watch out for some (most?) NTSC only TVs.


OK great.

As for RGB/Scart, this will do then?

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=919
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1317 on: December 29, 2011, 06:02:40 PM »
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OK great.

As for RGB/Scart, this will do then?

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=919


Remember that the FPGA Arcade has a DVI output and that cable goes from VGA to SCART.  I use a DVI-VGA cable to connect to a monitor sho you'll need a DVI-VGA adapter for that cable.

Be aware that I bought some DVI-VGA adapaters to use a straight VGA-VGA cable and they didn't work, so be careful what you purchase.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1318 on: December 29, 2011, 06:04:53 PM »
I have a bunch of DVI-VGA adapters, will then connect the DVI -> SCART cable to that.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1319 from previous page: December 29, 2011, 06:09:53 PM »
Quote from: Nostromo;673447
I have a bunch of DVI-VGA adapters, will then connect the DVI -> SCART cable to that.


"Should" work... in theory.  Unless you end up with a bunch of adapters like I got.  :)
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