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Offline mikej

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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2204 from previous page: January 15, 2013, 11:02:19 PM »
Some good news. All the components are in place now and I'm paying the bill.
The last parts should join the PCBs within two weeks, and I am hoping they can get them built before the China spring festival holiday. I should get boards by end Feb.

This is a big step forward as I can now remotely order and build as many as I want. This will also mean the daughterboard can go directly into volume production.
/MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2205 on: January 16, 2013, 12:22:06 AM »
Is the PCB layout and BOM for the daughterboard complete at this time?
(production complete that is)

What's the minimum batch you can order?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2206 on: January 16, 2013, 02:36:14 AM »
Quote from: wawrzon;722569
ive never fully understood, why trapping substituted instructions have been impossible, but since everybody broke their teeth on it i guess its not worth to explain to noobs.

Traps are REALLY slow.  The Mac OS is run on traps.  I patched the crap out of the OS so that it used jumps in place of traps - and that is how I was able to dramatically increase the speed of the Mac OS... well, that and better hardware.  :)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2207 on: January 16, 2013, 02:41:43 AM »
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Some good news. All the components are in place now and I'm paying the bill.
The last parts should join the PCBs within two weeks, and I am hoping they can get them built before the China spring festival holiday. I should get boards by end Feb.

This is a big step forward as I can now remotely order and build as many as I want. This will also mean the daughterboard can go directly into volume production.
/MikeJ

Great Mike! Let me know as soon as I can get a dev board!  Thanks!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2208 on: January 16, 2013, 07:43:05 AM »
Quote from: mikej;722681
Some good news. All the components are in place now and I'm paying the bill.
The last parts should join the PCBs within two weeks, and I am hoping they can get them built before the China spring festival holiday. I should get boards by end Feb.

This is a big step forward as I can now remotely order and build as many as I want. This will also mean the daughterboard can go directly into volume production.
/MikeJ


Whoaw,
Good news MikeJ your almost there :-)
I hope you sell lots of them, i'm still happy with one of your first promo boards :-)
Also i hope the daughterboard's will be made soon, still want one with 060 CPU
Keep up the good work and congratulations on the well done project
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2209 on: January 16, 2013, 10:39:38 AM »
Great news! Can't wait to get one.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2210 on: January 16, 2013, 10:50:11 AM »
mikej,

Thank you very much for this update, it's great news!

I'm just wondering how many units you have on the preorder list, you mentioned earlier that you're able to assemble 100 units and I just wanted to estimate how much time it can take to ship the hardware to the people in the end of the queue. Thanks for the info -- if possible of course. Good luck with things!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2211 on: January 16, 2013, 01:46:10 PM »
Quote from: mikej;722681
Some good news. All the components are in place now and I'm paying the bill.
The last parts should join the PCBs within two weeks, and I am hoping they can get them built before the China spring festival holiday. I should get boards by end Feb.

This is a big step forward as I can now remotely order and build as many as I want. This will also mean the daughterboard can go directly into volume production.
/MikeJ


Woohoo! Congratulations Mike :)
Well done on getting it all into production!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2212 on: January 16, 2013, 05:12:20 PM »
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That's how they work which is more prone to problems than trapping while still not full speed. The missing instructions on the 68060 are, by default, trapped every time using the 68060.library.

The solutions are just as good now as they were in the 90's & I don't recall people refusing to buy 68060 boards back then.
Back then you could always recompile your software for 68060 (or even 68000) and then it won't trap, backward compatibility is worth a little slow down.
 
For coldfire a mode that trapped on any instruction that wasn't compatible with 68000 would have been enough, but they didn't care about the market.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2213 on: January 16, 2013, 05:17:36 PM »
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The solutions are just as good now as they were then & I don't recall people refusing to buy 68060 boards back then.


And if a game doesn't want to run correctly on the FPGA Arcade with the 68060 then it could always be run using the soft core CPU.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2214 on: January 16, 2013, 05:32:58 PM »
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And if a game doesn't want to run correctly on the FPGA Arcade with the 68060 then it could always be run using the soft core CPU.

or possibly WHDLOAD.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2215 on: January 16, 2013, 05:57:47 PM »
Quote from: psxphill;722756
or possibly WHDLOAD.


and that too :)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2216 on: January 23, 2013, 07:54:51 AM »
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I'm just wondering how many units you have on the preorder list, you mentioned earlier that you're able to assemble 100 units and I just wanted to estimate how much time it can take to ship the hardware to the people in the end of the queue. Thanks for the info -- if possible of course. Good luck with things!

I would be interested in the same too :)
mikej, can you tell us how long is your 'e-mail list', how many pre-orders do you have at the moment?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2217 on: January 23, 2013, 01:00:39 PM »
@mikej:
ive seen fpgaarcade testers complaining about compatibility earlier in the thread. i wonder if your fpga core is based on minimig, since there is an effort to fix the minimig core to maximal compatibility, led by boing4000 here:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=593283#post593283
its a german forum but you might contact him for assistance.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2218 on: January 23, 2013, 01:40:10 PM »
Hi ;)

Effectively, there are still some compatibility issues with the current firmware, but don't forget that this one (the only one beta testers have) is dated from more than one year !

Boing4000 is doing a great work on the Minimig's core but only Mike can let him working on the FPGA Arcade board's firmware.

I'm also waiting from Mike the new firmware version for testing it anf putting some new videos of it on my personnal webserver HERE.

Thanks to Mike and Jakub for their awesome work on this wonderful board !
Faranheit
Mike is on the final line for production and tests.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #2219 on: January 23, 2013, 02:54:01 PM »
The main part of the Amiga core is Minimig derived, but rapidly diverging.
I have had some contact with Boing4000 and will incorporate any fixes which are common.
/Mike
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