FPGA Replay Board

[Kesa]

Now i'm interested in the replay what kind of benchmarks are there to drool over? Has someone done any yet? What kind of speeds are we talking about?

If i recall correctly FPGA is not recognized by SYSINFO  :confused:

[Duce]

What's the expected ETA on the daughterboard, Mike?

I'm not a gamer at all on the Amiga side, and the reason I want the fpga arcade is because of the daughterboard.  I plan on running my BBS on the machine, and for that I absolutely need ethernet - the mainboard is a paperweight to me without ethernet, since I do virtually no gaming on the Amiga.

With ethernet on the daughterboard, I can simply install the OS, apps, and BBS software on the memory card and use SAMBA to pull my BBS files off my Windows HS 2011 to serve up to the callers.  Works a treat on my current SAM 440ep rig with a SSD on it.

[Methanoid]

Don't know why everyone keep saying it's put on the shelf.
It's still progressing. Just slower then before.

Go to http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php if you need your Natami fix.

Is it possible for NatAmi to go any slower without going backwards?

[Nickman]

Is it possible for NatAmi to go any slower without going backwards?

yes of course.
But don't think it will go as far as going backwards. That would mean that they remove things they have already done on the MX.
Actualy it did take some steps back when jumping from the LX to the MX version.

Be patient or not. But ppl need to stop taking anything Amiga related to serious.

The Natami, FPGA Arcade, Minimig, X1000, MOS, AROS won't become what Amiga was before.

[Crom00]

Damn fine project shame it's taking too long. Keep it non 060 and crazy 3d stuff and release whats ready now. Relase upgrades via firmware updates. I did the logo for the Natami project. At any rate I wish him the best and I will purchase it whenever its ready.

[freqmax]

Regarding the memory controller on FPGA Replay. Maybe a solution is to have the logic-core to measure and adapt the timing to the memory on-the-fly ..?, or at least som kind of dynamic update.

[broken]

No talk on this lately?

I would like to hear from the folks that have a FPGA Replay board in hand.

How close does it behave to a real Amiga? Any weird issues with it?

General discussion would be great!

[Darrin]

No talk on this lately?

I would like to hear from the folks that have a FPGA Replay board in hand.

How close does it behave to a real Amiga? Any weird issues with it?

General discussion would be great!

I've had a prototype for over a year now and I use it as my "main Amiga" along with my Minimig, Chameleon, A4000 and A2000 (in that order).

Once it boots the core (which takes a couple of seconds), you may as well be using a "real" Amiga.  The only distraction is getting used to using ADF files instead of floppies.

I have a couple of SD cards.  One of them boots to a 68000 compatible ClassicWB 3.1 which works perfectly while the other boots to a doctored version of ClassicWB 3.9 which unfortunately suffers from problems due to some bugs in the 68020 soft core.

I have WHDLoad set up and working from a 2GB hard file.  It is fast and most games (including AGA) work fine.

The basic board can be best described as an A1200 with extra Fast RAM, a turbo charged 68020, Scan Doubler, hard drive (2 possible), 4 "floppy drives".  Add o that the ability to switch between 68000 and 68020 CPUs, OCS/ECS/AGA and allocate your RAM as you wish between Chip and Fast (plus a few other things).

The new firmware when it is released should give us access to the other video outputs, RTG graphics modes (I think I read that Mike had tested a 1920x1080 screen), access to a lot more RAM and bug fixes.

The expansion board with a real 68060 CPU will eliminate any remaining soft-CPU bugs, add a network port, USB, more RAM, more storage (IIRC the mini-SD card slot will work just like a direct hard drive so no need for had files).

All in all, I'm very happy with it as it is.  I'm going to love it even more when Mike releases that core update.

[broken]

I've had a prototype for over a year now and I use it as my "main Amiga" along with my Minimig, Chameleon, A4000 and A2000 (in that order).

Once it boots the core (which takes a couple of seconds), you may as well be using a "real" Amiga.  The only distraction is getting used to using ADF files instead of floppies.

I have a couple of SD cards.  One of them boots to a 68000 compatible ClassicWB 3.1 which works perfectly while the other boots to a doctored version of ClassicWB 3.9 which unfortunately suffers from problems due to some bugs in the 68020 soft core.

I have WHDLoad set up and working from a 2GB hard file.  It is fast and most games (including AGA) work fine.

The basic board can be best described as an A1200 with extra Fast RAM, a turbo charged 68020, Scan Doubler, hard drive (2 possible), 4 "floppy drives".  Add o that the ability to switch between 68000 and 68020 CPUs, OCS/ECS/AGA and allocate your RAM as you wish between Chip and Fast (plus a few other things).

The new firmware when it is released should give us access to the other video outputs, RTG graphics modes (I think I read that Mike had tested a 1920x1080 screen), access to a lot more RAM and bug fixes.

The expansion board with a real 68060 CPU will eliminate any remaining soft-CPU bugs, add a network port, USB, more RAM, more storage (IIRC the mini-SD card slot will work just like a direct hard drive so no need for had files).

All in all, I'm very happy with it as it is.  I'm going to love it even more when Mike releases that core update.

Awesome. This is what I want to hear.

Have you tried any Demo's on it? I am wondering how well games and demo's that bang directly on the hardware respond.

What about audio apps like Protracker and Octamed?

[Darrin]

Awesome. This is what I want to hear.

Have you tried any Demo's on it? I am wondering how well games and demo's that bang directly on the hardware respond.

What about audio apps like Protracker and Octamed?

I'm not a demo sort of guy so to be honest, I haven't.  If there is a particular one (or ones) you would like me to try then let me know and I'll test them.  I won't be home for 2 weeks though so hang in there.  

I haven't tried any tracker programs.  I have Octamed somewhere (and an older one called Sonic or something).

[mikej]

I've run quite a lot of demos, they are a good way of testing the accuracy of the hardware.

I will get my sticky hands on the 68060s shortly...
MikeJ

[Faranheit]

Hi

I have also ran many games and demos and It runs fine.

It's very enjoyable to use this board even for Workbench.

Delitracker II runs very well on it for example.

I'll try to test Protracker or other tracker software on it as soon as I can.

Thanks to Mike for his great job

Laurent aka Faranheit

[Dopuser]

I will get my sticky hands on the 68060s shortly...

Regardless 68060 expansion card (that is a future subject for a moment): what about next supply of FPGA Arcade? Please to share some news.

Thanks,

[Fester]

Thanks for the great report Darrin. This is a product I'd love to have when it's available to the rest of us.

[Lord Aga]

Regardless 68060 expansion card (that is a future subject for a moment): what about next supply of FPGA Arcade? Please to share some news.

Thanks,

+1
When will we see the online order form ?

[TheSaint123]

Who i can by a Arcade Replay Board ?

I have write Mikej 1 Year Ago.