FPGA Replay Board

[Kremlar]

Silly me :insane: didn't know it was easy to adapt DVI into VGA. Never done it before so I didn't know.

FYI, it's easy to adapt DVI-I which has both digital and analong signals on the same conenctor. DVI-D is digital-only and is not easy to adapt to VGA.

[cunnpole]

There's more info here: http://www.fpgaarcade.com/dev/drupal/?q=node/5 and several hundred pages back

[psxphill]

and another 33% tax to the Exchange Rate Powers That Be.

That isn't how currency exchange rates work. The euro is stronger than the dollar. I imagine that during manufacture mikej is paying for parts etc in different currencies and if the euro wasn't as strong then he'd have to put up the euro price of the replay board.
 
You do pay a small amount for currency conversions, which I agree is a little weird when you're using electronic forms of payment.
 
It's also a little annoying that every day the price you will need to pay will change. The dollar might strengthen against the euro next week or it might weaken.

[Darrin]

@Fahrenheit

Whew!
Thanx for the infos!
I was really scared for a minute there :nervous:

Note to self: Replay connects to VGA with simple adapter.

Note from experience:

Watch out for cheap adapters.  When I got my board I picked up a couple of DVI-VGA adapters (just the port) off eBay which I tried with a regular VGA cable (attach adapter to board, attach VGA cable to adapter and monitor).  The result was a blank monitor.  I fired off an email to Mike stating that I thought the board might be broken and inbetween bouncing some emails back and forth I visited Walmart and saw a straight DVI-VGA monitor cable.  I bought it, took it home, connected it and immediately got a perfect picture.

Meanwhile those port adapters have refused to work with any cables on any machines (PCs included).

[freqmax]

Did you measure the connectin diagram of the non-working vs the working ones?

[Darrin]

Did you measure the connectin diagram of the non-working vs the working ones?

No, I threw them into a corner and let them gather dust.  

[espskog]

Of course, existing board owners who have been waiting for the daughterboard will be first. I can't promise 060s at the moment though (well, I can but not the final mask set).
/MikeJ

NIce. What would be the difference between the final mask and the one you can supply with the daughterboard ? What would be a guesstimate for shipping daughterboard ?
//Espen

[broken]

There's more info here: http://www.fpgaarcade.com/dev/drupal/?q=node/5 and several hundred pages back

Looking at that same spec's page, I see:

P22 DVI output (HDMI + analogue video for SCART/VGA)

Does this mean I can also get 15KHz analog RGB output via the DVI connector since it mentions Scart?

I use a Sony PVM with all my stuff and it would be great to also use it via 15k RGB with a FPGA Replay board. Or build a cable and use it with a Commodore 1084s and etc.

[mikej]

Looking at that same spec's page, I see:




Does this mean I can also get 15KHz analog RGB output via the DVI connector since it mentions Scart?

I use a Sony PVM with all my stuff and it would be great to also use it via 15k RGB with a FPGA Replay board. Or build a cable and use it with a Commodore 1084s and etc.

Yes - I use a DVI to VGA adapter on the board then a "standard" VGA to Scart.

[ChaosLord]

@broken

Some 1084S monitors have a VGA connector on the back.  I suppose all the ones from the last production run had them?

[ChaosLord]

Are the other nonAmiga cores compatible with the 060 daughtercard?

Like lets say I want to try out the Atari 2600 core and play some great oldsk00l Activision games (yes Activision used to make awesome games).  Would my "Atari 2600" function correctly with a big bad monster 060 card bolted on top?

Does any Atari 2600 core even exist?

If not then please substitute ColecoVision or C64 in the above paragraph.

[Methanoid]

ChaosLord,
Who has quoted you this?
There is no pricing for the daughterboard yet. Please mail me privately.

If you are outside the EU then you will pay no VAT - although you may pay import duty.
The guide price for the main board (from me) is expected therefore to be 199EU (without comp/svhs) or 229-239EU with. Exact pricing is dependant on import duty and final manufacture cost, and may vary between runs with exchange rate.

I would make this 270 USD for the base board + shipping.
If the board is from one of my resellers, they then charge for integration, cases and support etc so the price will be higer.
/MikeJ

The price he was quoted might be because he has clearly signalled his intense desperation with all the "me me me" and "don't care how much, get me on the list" type posts :-)

[bloodline]

Are the other nonAmiga cores compatible with the 060 daughtercard?

Like lets say I want to try out the Atari 2600 core and play some great oldsk00l Activision games (yes Activision used to make awesome games).  Would my "Atari 2600" function correctly with a big bad monster 060 card bolted on top?

Does any Atari 2600 core even exist?

If not then please substitute ColecoVision or C64 in the above paragraph.

Does that even make sense?

What part of a VCS2600 was even remotely 68k based!?

[Hattig]

Does that even make sense?

What part of a VCS2600 was even remotely 68k based!?

I think he just wants verification that other cores will not be operationally affected by the presence of the '060 board.

I don't see how they would - the core would not be configured to interface with it, so there would be no problem. However if that other core made use of its own daughterboard there could be trouble, unless the daughterboard identifies itself to the FPGA and the core can then ignore non-matching daughterboards.

[freqmax]

@MikeJ, Perhaps some simple means to identify the FPGA mainboard and daughterboard might be a good idea to avoid feature electronic mayham

Ie some small jumpers or serial eeprom (or shiftregister with jumpers).

[ChaosLord]

If I use an Atari 800 core there is only 1 game I would want to play on it.  That is M.U.L.E. with all 4 joystick ports at a M.U.L.E. party.  The C64 version has much better music but 2 of the players must use the keyboard during the auctions.  Letting everyone have their own joystick on the Atari 800 is much kewler.


We would plug in all 4 joysticks into the Replay... woops... there are only 2 joystick ports....  Ok so obviously the Atari 800 core, being highly professional and containing all needed features, would look to the daughterboard for the other 2 joystick ports.

My Elite 68060 daughterboard should supply joystick ports 3 and 4 because a bunch of Amiga games use them... but it does not... so the Atari Core just starts sending out a bunch of signals that make no sense to my 68060 daughterboard and everything would then go berzerk.    This is what I am trying to avoid.