FPGA Replay Board

[gaula92]

In Louisiana it is more of a "swamp" thing.  Dig  down a couple of feet and you hit fresh water.

That's why H P Lovecraft discov..ehmm... invented the Cthulu creatures, like The Deep Ones
I don't know a thing about the US geography but I hope you won't build your house on some ancient ruins and become crazy dreaming about creatures that inhabited the earth before mankind!
(And avoid classic mithological names like Derceto, etc)

[freqmax]

Btw, isn't there a few people with access to the source code that can work out these bugs while Mikej deals with his move?

[mikej]

There are three of us so far working on separate parts of the design.
Once we have a coherent working release (including new boot loader) it will be opened up so more people can help.
/Mike

[Faranheit]

Hi

Good to hear that the updated core is near completion !

As mentionned before me, like the Minimig when it has been launched, games / apps compatibility needs to be improved, and the replay board's core is more complicated than the Minimig's one.

But, even with the current version (from half 2011), many softwares / games works well !

Things are going pretty good now

Thanks to Mike and Jakub and the 'support team' for this great board

[espskog]

Great to hear there is lots of progress on the core and the project in total.
Any news on when we can see some screenshots on the daughterboard in beta-action ?

//ES

[freqmax]

Let's get the base board completed fully first.. plz

[espskog]

I've had the base board for about 1,5 years or so

[Darth_X]

What will be present on the upcoming daughter board?

I would like to know how much it would cost to add an Amiga floppy drive controller to this board. Its a strange request, I know, but I'm curious. I still need to read/write Amiga floppies.

[xyzzy]

I would like to know how much it would cost to add an Amiga floppy drive controller to this board. Its a strange request, I know, but I'm curious. I still need to read/write Amiga floppies.

The Kryoflux USB floppy controller might be just what you're looking for, of course there's the small question of amiga drivers.

http://www.kryoflux.com/

Alternatively it may be possible to connect a floppy drive up to some spare I/O lines and run it through the FPGA.

[Darth_X]

The Kryoflux USB floppy controller might be just what you're looking for, of course there's the small question of amiga drivers.

http://www.kryoflux.com/

Alternatively it may be possible to connect a floppy drive up to some spare I/O lines and run it through the FPGA.

I'm interested in the Kryoflux, but it costs $172 CAD$. Great with a PC with USB, but not really an add-on for an FPGA based Amiga.

[VuData]

I mentioned earlier in this thread that an add-on board with a floppy interface to connect a 3.5 and 5.25" drive would be awesome. SID sockets would also be a bonus (basically a catweasle).

[jackflash]

can the Replay Board read CD images and run as a CD32?

[freqmax]

I think the hugest hurdles are:
 * Motorola 68EC020 @ 14 MHz
 * AGA graphics

But there is both an 68030-alike CPU- and AGA-core. It's an A1200 more or less. That leaves the CD emulation. But that is likely easier than the existing harddisc emulation.

So it's very likely doable, but I don't think there exist any code for this setup. But reconfiguration of existing code and adding CD-emulation should do it.

[glitch]

Don't forget the Akiko chip emulation for C2P conversion.  Not sure how much software relied on that though.

[Darrin]

can the Replay Board read CD images and run as a CD32?

Well you can try using WHDLoad to run CD32 games.

[freqmax]

Wikipedia says about Akiko:

Akiko allows this conversion to be performed in hardware instead of relying on software conversion which would cause more overhead. The conversion works by writing 32 chunky pixels to Akiko's registers and reading back eight 32-bit words of converted planar data which can then be copied to the display buffer.

Seems not that hard to implement as a HDL-core ..?