FPGA Replay Board

[digiflip]

i sent reminder email again to mikej that i would like buy fpga arcade and daughterboard.

[billt]

I received yesterday a box of brand-new genuine MC68060RC50s ... but they were the 1st mask set so I have rejected them.

What happens if you reject them? Do they take them back and refund you, or do you have some unrefunded trash as part of your total costs?

Once we get the bigger softcore 680x0 going, I can imagine this problem going away, puttin gan FPGA on a small PCB with 680x0 PGA pins on the bottom to plug into any board with such a socket. Not sure if it would be relevant for FPGA Arcade at that point, put the softcore inside the mainboard FPGA, but interesting for others perhaps.

[Firedawg]

Yes, I will ship without processors as well, but I need to get some to test it with.
I may have found some....

You and your China connections!:D Somethings we just do not need to know, but we appreciate it just the same.  I'm still hiding the loot from the wife for the FPGA Replay Board and as the daughter card and the 060 will be very much wanted, I have had to add more to the kitty. I'm just glad she is not a forensic accountant or my money tucking ways will be ended.:whack:

Mike

[Crom00]

Me wants one... (in LOTR Golem voice)

Please check your email as I had sent a request for one jeez... over a year ago. Thanks for all your hard work on this. This shall be my new middle aged man toy. (ok that sounds wierd)


You know what I mean...

[Machico2012]

Hello guys, could you please tell me if it is possible to install this hardfile on the FPGA Arcade.
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4851840/The_Amiga_Master_Collection_ready_to_run_HEAVY_LIFTING_DONE_
This hardfile is very complete,ate least for me :-)
I´m very interested in this great board as my future amiga replacement.
Thanks in advance.

[digiflip]

duno piratebay is banned on my isp

[Dozer]

Since the daughterboard needs a cpu, I started poking around ebay for a  used 68060, but the prices are rather steep.. (~100USD). Then I found  this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nortel-Meridian-NT5D03FB-CP-Rlse-02-68060E-128MB-64F-Module-/320877034462

And I received it..

It's an LC version, and it's soldered to the board. No go unfortunately. I guess I'll have to put my faith in MikeJ's angels and their awesome 060-hunting-skills

[digiflip]

are the pins too short on 68060 then once de-soldered?

[espskog]

Hello guys, could you please tell me if it is possible to install this hardfile on the FPGA Arcade.
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4851840/The_Amiga_Master_Collection_ready_to_run_HEAVY_LIFTING_DONE_
This hardfile is very complete,ate least for me :-)
I´m very interested in this great board as my future amiga replacement.
Thanks in advance.

I have the file and it is about 10GB large (the hardfile). It works nice on WinUAE though -- as you also probably have tried. Yet, I would have to shrink it a little down to fit my 8GB SDIO card to test on the Replay first. I will bring it home and try and see if it works. It boots up a plain OS3.1 with WHDLoad on it and a ton of games/demos -- so I think it will work pretty nice. Just have to test it first

Thanks for that link. It'll be a nice baseline for my new hardfile

Espen

[Machico2012]

Yes, i have tried on winuae and it´s great, like you said it´s a great baseline. I´ll be waiting for your results, i hope everything works.

P.S. I´m curious about the cd32 games… will they work?

Thanks

[mikej]

I'll buy a bigger SD card and try it as well with the new firmware.
I'm running a different filesystem so it will be a good test.
/MikeJ

[Darrin]

I'll buy a bigger SD card and try it as well with the new firmware.
I'm running a different filesystem so it will be a good test.
/MikeJ

Talking of new firmware, I'll be home on Sunday and I'll have a week off... hint, hint.

[wizard66]

Can we assume that your new filesystem will lift the 4GB boundary on SDCards then ?
If so the new firmware gets better every day :-)

I'll buy a bigger SD card and try it as well with the new firmware.
I'm running a different filesystem so it will be a good test.
/MikeJ

[yaqube]

Mike, do not forget that FAT filesystem has ~4GB limit on file size. Please also remember that Amiga OS 3.1 scsi.device do not support drives larger than 4GB and fastfilesystem doesn't handle well partitions larger than 2GB.

I'll buy a bigger SD card and try it as well with the new firmware.
I'm running a different filesystem so it will be a good test.
/MikeJ

[mikej]

Mike, do not forget that FAT filesystem has ~4GB limit on file size. Please also remember that Amiga OS 3.1 scsi.device do not support drives larger than 4GB and fastfilesystem doesn't handle well partitions larger than 2GB.

Thanks Yaqube.
I must send you the update to play with, it seems relatively stable now - although I still cannot go up in the file viewer...

Quite right, even though the filesystem supports fat32 the Amiga os may be an issue. I don't know much about that end of things.

Oh well, surely 2GB is enough for anybody
/MikeJ

[bbond007]

I have the file and it is about 10GB large (the hardfile). It works nice on WinUAE though -- as you also probably have tried. Yet, I would have to shrink it a little down to fit my 8GB SDIO card to test on the Replay first. I will bring it home and try and see if it works. It boots up a plain OS3.1 with WHDLoad on it and a ton of games/demos -- so I think it will work pretty nice. Just have to test it first

Thanks for that link. It'll be a nice baseline for my new hardfile

Espen

unless that is a newer version of that same hardfile, it expands out to a 8GB HDF (too big for FAT32), however its less than 1/2 full so I was able to copy everything to a 4GB hardfile that worked on my Minimig 1.1.