FPGA Replay Board

[Retro_71]

My bank account is overflowing with a backlog of money that I have saved to purchase an FPGA Arcade Replay with 060/MMU daughtercard.

ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! waiting for mine with 060/MMU daughterboard... wonder how far down i am on the list....

[remowilliams]

Of which year? iirc I'm waiting since april 2011

Hehe, exactly.  Been since 2011 here too.  

[NovaCoder]

Come on guys, waiting a couple of years for an Amiga hardware project to be released is nothing unusual

[Faranheit]

Hi all

Just wait a little more time, we'll add the FPGA Arcade board and accessories on our website since Mike has just agreed for that point

In the meantime, don't hesitate to send us a mail at contact@amedia-computer.com or laurent@amedia-computer.com for reserving your product.

It's still possible

Thanks, Lionel 'Braver' and Laurent 'Faranheit'
Amedia Computer France

[Dozer]

Of which year? iirc I'm waiting since april 2011

I'm guessing you're getting yours before I get mine then ..

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:26:59 +0100
From: MikeJ

Done, I've added you to the list.
Best,
Mike

I'll be waiting, patiently, over here

[mikej]

I feel really bad now for keeping you waiting, sorry. I suspect you will all get them about the same time.

I will probably need to start shipping the hardware with the boot loader and supply regular minor sw updates in the field actually - the hardware is stable, tested and isn't going to change. Maybe I shouldn't wait for software perfection
/MikeJ

[arnljot]

I'm looking forward to being on the list But most of all paying for it, so the wait can really begin LOL

@mikej
I for one wouldn't expect it to be "perfected". What's important is that the firmware upgrade functions are solid, so that users can update as you get closer and closer to perfection

[Hattig]

Definitely looking forward to paying and receiving this, and building a nice shiny new Amiga / Atari / C64 / CPC / Arcade machine :p

[mikej]

An example of the new OSD - the Austrian coding team is slaving away ...

/MikeJ

[Kokos]

I know Mike has a lot to keep up with, however I'd like to kindly remind my question, if not to mike then to the community.. Thank you. :-)

One additional question..

Do you think it's possible that iControlPad 2 will work with USB variant of FPGAA?

If yes, do you think I'll be able to map any controller button I want? Example - let say I'm using FPGAA, running some ADF file, I use iCP2 as joystick, and I want to skip the intro where mouse or keyboard is originally required - can I use also iCP2 for this?

Thanks & cheers!

[mikej]

I haven't come across the iCP2 before. However, it says it behaves as a HID device, so there should be no problem mapping it into the Amiga keyboard/mouse controller.

The VNC2 chip contains the translation table. So yes, it would behave just like an original amiga mouse / keyboard as far as the system is required.
The design also convert inputs back into PS2 standard and sends these to the ARM, so you can control the OSD as well.

/Mike

[Kokos]

This is great. Thank you Mike! Cheers!

[psxphill]

The VNC2 chip contains the translation table. So yes, it would behave just like an original amiga mouse / keyboard as far as the system is required.

If it could also map them to joystick inputs as well as mouse then that would be awesome. As the mouse uses the joystick ports (at least for buttons, but moving the mouse also affects the joystick direction inputs) then I would hope it wasn't too hard :-)

[Darrin]

I will probably need to start shipping the hardware with the boot loader and supply regular minor sw updates in the field actually - the hardware is stable, tested and isn't going to change. Maybe I shouldn't wait for software perfection
/MikeJ

I've been hinting at that for about..... a year!  

I think you should take the Chameleon64 approach and issue the core, let people play with it and get some feedback on the bugs.

[AJCopland]

Yes, please don't wait to get it perfect, get it good enough and ship it!

[Faranheit]

Hi all

After Mike has given his agreement yesterday for an  exact point, you can now see the FPGA Arcade / Replay board on our  webshop

All can be found :
- HERE for a complete system,
- HERE for the board itself,
- HERE for the accessories.

In the board page, you'll be able to see a little video showing it in action (with the old firmware for the moment).
When we receive the new firmware, we'll post a new video

Thanks to Mike and Jakub for their awesome work !
Lionel 'Braver' and Laurent 'Faranheit'
Amedia Computer France