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Offline psxphill

Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1754 from previous page: July 26, 2012, 09:17:10 AM »
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Different from SDIO I presume?
 
Toshiba FlashAir only mentions being able to read from the card when inserted in a digital camera. Same with EyeFi but Flucard seems to support some P2P receive mode. The control is done with manipulation of "picture files", definitly an ad-hoc hack.

Yeah my understanding is the cards are intended to sync pictures to a PC and when the card is full they delete old pictures that have already been synced. No device will expect the card to change in real time, so before making changes it will have to simulate the card being ejected.
 
They are expensive because they are aimed at professional photographers, they use them for instant previews on large monitors in a studio. They aren't that new, just rare because of the cost.
It's entirely possible that they are generic enough to work with any type of file.
 
I would imagine that you'll be able to get remote access to the card from your PC eventually anyway.
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Offline AJCopland

Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1755 on: July 31, 2012, 02:48:48 PM »
Any new news MikeJ?
Still really looking forward to you getting this released :)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1756 on: July 31, 2012, 08:26:11 PM »
Hi,
It's going well - moving flat next week finally so actually shipping boards again will be possible. The work on the new core is progressing well and I am working on it full time currently.
/Mike
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1757 on: July 31, 2012, 08:38:09 PM »
I think the idea of getting some sort of Amiga equivalent of the apps store for Android/iOS is a great idea, thought about that a lot.

However the logistics involved in getting legal title to sell them even though most people have 20gb ADF TOSECs sitting on their hard drive already, and the fact there would need to be some sort of DRM and therefore more software extensions to UAE/WinUAE etc makes it financially a no go so doubt any company would do this.

The legality issue then also prevents you from doing a free ADF store for people to connect to via the internet and access like a giant virtual hard drive like via a software interface layer between host OS and the emulator/hardware using the ADF files.

Copyright destroys the scope of retro computing IMO.
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Offline psxphill

Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1758 on: July 31, 2012, 09:23:09 PM »
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Copyright destroys the scope of retro computing IMO.

Ironically enforcing copyright would allow your app store to make some money. Piracy is your biggest hurdle.
 
The saddest thing for me is the lack of box and manual scans.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1759 on: July 31, 2012, 10:35:49 PM »
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Hi,
It's going well - moving flat next week finally so actually shipping boards again will be possible. The work on the new core is progressing well and I am working on it full time currently.
/Mike

Great news Mike!  Ship me mine!!!!!! :insane:

Mike
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1760 on: August 01, 2012, 12:04:27 AM »
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.. and the fact there would need to be some sort of DRM .
Why would you need that?

GOG doesn't use DRM when they sell older games?

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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1761 on: August 01, 2012, 02:34:26 PM »
Would it be feasible to run a Sega Mega Drive core on the board, and to have an actual cartridge port on a daughter board?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1762 on: August 01, 2012, 03:27:07 PM »
Sega megadrive#Technical specifications
 * CPU: 68000 @ 7.61 MHz + Z80 @ 3.58 MHz
 * RAM: 138 kB total
 * Video: Yamaha YM7101 (seems pale compared even to a VIC-II)
 * Sound: YM2612 5-channel FM and 1-channel FM/PCM, SN76489 4-channel Programmable Sound Generator
 * Cartridge via serialized interface.

Yeah it seems doable. If someone actually get inclined enough to do it is another matter.
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Offline AJCopland

Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1763 on: August 01, 2012, 04:07:43 PM »
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Sega megadrive#Technical specifications
 * CPU: 68000 @ 7.61 MHz + Z80 @ 3.58 MHz
 * RAM: 138 kB total
 * Video: Yamaha YM7101 (seems pale compared even to a VIC-II)
 * Sound: YM2612 5-channel FM and 1-channel FM/PCM, SN76489 4-channel Programmable Sound Generator
 * Cartridge via serialized interface.

Yeah it seems doable. If someone actually get inclined enough to do it is another matter.

FPGAGen
http://code.google.com/p/fpgagen/

:D

EDIT: even better, seems like he's done PC Engine and some others too http://www.torlus.com/
EDIT2: "THE EDITENNING": Obviously these aren't for the FPGAArcade, but they could be ported ;)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1764 on: August 01, 2012, 04:19:20 PM »
With FPGAgen it should be a piece of cake to port to FPGA Replay etc.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1765 on: August 01, 2012, 07:54:07 PM »
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* Video: Yamaha YM7101 (seems pale compared even to a VIC-II)

Seriously?

512 colours, 3 playfields, lots of sprites.

Not a problem for an FPGA of course. I have several "tv-games" that are basically Megadrives with a built-in bunch of games, probably boiled down to a single chip to keep costs down. I bet they started life in an FPGA.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1766 on: August 06, 2012, 07:37:00 AM »
Hi MikeJ,

Could you put me on the list for an FPGA Arcade board please.

Thanks!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1767 on: August 17, 2012, 09:21:50 PM »
What about the OTHER FPGA cores? Atari ST, C64 etc....

I'm also very interested in them

I was prompted to post because when clearing out old emails I found one from MikeJ to me in April telling me I was "the next" to get a Replay board :(
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Offline AJCopland

Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1768 on: August 18, 2012, 06:49:36 PM »
Thread bump!

Just wondering if there's any progress to report?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #1769 on: August 18, 2012, 08:40:41 PM »
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Thread bump!

Just wondering if there's any progress to report?


I am happy to report that just recently the tread on the FPGAReplay board has been bumped.
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