FPGA Replay Board

[kamelito]

Did you try the arcade games on the fgpa arcade website? Can you have them all in a SD card alongside the Amiga core? Is there a procedure how to install them?

[Faranheit]

@Sysop:
1. The FPGA Arcade board can handle 2 HDF hardfiles of 3,99GB maximum size (FAT32 limitations),
2. Kickstart file must copied at the root of the SD Card and you can install at least Workbench 3.5 (standard or Classic WB 3.5) on any of the 2 HDF hardfiles using the the ADF virtual floppies of the Workbench or WinUAE,
3. The FPGA Arcade board can handle up to 4 virtual drives at 2 differents read speed.

You can have a look at our video showing it in action on our website HERE with the 'Watch Video' button or HERE with the 'Watch Video' button.

Prices INCLUDES french VAT for informations.

@Kamelito: DVI / VGA adapter (not cable) works fine with the FPGA Arcade board and we have succesfully tested Rise of the Robots, Hybris, Canon Fodder 1 / 2, Lemmings, California Games, Super Stardust .... on the old firmware, and also Classic Workbench 3.5, Dopus 4.x, DPaintIV, Delitracker, and overall WHDLoad games

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

[Methanoid]

Had a strange thought... How does Replay cope with Widescreen monitors? Does it keep 4:3 aspect and use bars down side or stretch screen?

[Casey4147]

I have Amiga Forever from Cloanto on my PC, as well as an old A1000 (working) and A600 (not), either of which I'm seriously considering cannibalizing with an FPGA Arcade board.  Question - would the Kickstart & Workbench files provided by Cloanto's Amiga Forever work with the FPGA?
 
 
 

@Sysop:
1. The FPGA Arcade board can handle 2 HDF hardfiles of 3,99GB maximum size (FAT32 limitations),
2. Kickstart file must copied at the root of the SD Card and you can install at least Workbench 3.5 (standard or Classic WB 3.5) on any of the 2 HDF hardfiles using the the ADF virtual floppies of the Workbench or WinUAE,
3. The FPGA Arcade board can handle up to 4 virtual drives at 2 differents read speed.
 
You can have a look at our video showing it in action on our website HERE with the 'Watch Video' button or HERE with the 'Watch Video' button.
 
Prices INCLUDES french VAT for informations.
 
@Kamelito: DVI / VGA adapter (not cable) works fine with the FPGA Arcade board and we have succesfully tested Rise of the Robots, Hybris, Canon Fodder 1 / 2, Lemmings, California Games, Super Stardust .... on the old firmware, and also Classic Workbench 3.5, Dopus 4.x, DPaintIV, Delitracker, and overall WHDLoad games
 
Thanks, Lionel 'Braver' et Laurent 'Faranheit'
Amedia Computer France

[Hattig]

Had a strange thought... How does Replay cope with Widescreen monitors? Does it keep 4:3 aspect and use bars down side or stretch screen?

Good question - there's not much you can do about classic software that assumes a 4:3 display, especially all those PAL titles that really made good use of the extra vertical resolution that PAL gave.

Maybe the non-overscanned 320x200 NTSC stuff won't look odd - that's 16:10.

[psxphill]

Had a strange thought... How does Replay cope with Widescreen monitors? Does it keep 4:3 aspect and use bars down side or stretch screen?

I imagine for PAL it outputs a 720x576 screen and it's up to you to tell your TV how it should be displayed. 720x576 is the resolution of PAL 4:3, the pixels aren't square so you can't calculate the aspect ratio using just the resolution (Pixels are 1.066:1 i.e. slightly wider than they are tall, not sure if NTSC is the same).
 
OCS Amiga's couldn't output "square pixels".

[Darrin]

Had a strange thought... How does Replay cope with Widescreen monitors? Does it keep 4:3 aspect and use bars down side or stretch screen?

Depends on how I set my monitor.  If I set it to 4:3 then I have bars down either side, and if I set it to HFILL or JUST then it stretches it.

[Darrin]

I have Amiga Forever from Cloanto on my PC, as well as an old A1000 (working) and A600 (not), either of which I'm seriously considering cannibalizing with an FPGA Arcade board.  Question - would the Kickstart & Workbench files provided by Cloanto's Amiga Forever work with the FPGA?

I'm not sure if the core was written to work with Cloanto's KS files as well, but if you rip the KS ROM images from within Amiga Forever then you end up with non-encoded images.  Personally, I just suggest you download them from the Internet.

I own just about every KS from 1.2 onwards via real Amiga computers and I can't be bother ed to "rip" something that I can download in a couple of seconds.  I already own the physical thing it so what difference does it make at the end of the day?

[kamelito]

Still no luck  I tried a DVI to VGA adaptor but got "Mode not supported" message from the TV. (my TV is a samsung UE4B6000) I've one similar to this one but as there's many, is this one the right one (enough pins)? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adapter_DVI_to_VGA.jpg  I also tried a composite cable like this one : http://zxbvlm.blogspot.fr/2013/07/6-feet-3-rca-composite-av.html  But if I switch the TV then the FPGA Arcade, I got the message "No signal". If I switch the FPGA Arcade then the TV I see a partial workbench screen (half black and half workbench vertically, the quality is bad) then 2s after the "No signal" message.  Any help is more than welcome. Kamelito  

Thanks for the response, how do I get and install the new core? I read that the cable said "HDMI to DVI" is this the problem? or HDMI to DVI also do "DVI to HDMI" it's this cable I've. http://www.amazon.com/BlueRigger-Speed-Adapter-Cable-Meters/dp/B004S4R5CK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374612958&sr=8-1&keywords=dvi+hdmi+bluerigger  Kamel

[mikej]

Still no luck  I tried a DVI to VGA adaptor but got "Mode not supported" message from the TV. (my TV is a samsung UE4B6000) I've one similar to this one but as there's many, is this one the right one (enough pins)? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adapter_DVI_to_VGA.jpg  I also tried a composite cable like this one : http://zxbvlm.blogspot.fr/2013/07/6-feet-3-rca-composite-av.html  But if I switch the TV then the FPGA Arcade, I got the message "No signal". If I switch the FPGA Arcade then the TV I see a partial workbench screen (half black and half workbench vertically, the quality is bad) then 2s after the "No signal" message.  Any help is more than welcome. Kamelito

Depends what modes your TV supports on the VGA input. Mail me directly.
Give me a few more days then we will roll out the new code and you can use some test core to see which display modes work.
Wire up the RS232 output of the board to your PC if you can.
/MikeJ

[kamelito]

Depends what modes your TV supports on the VGA input. Mail me directly.
Give me a few more days then we will roll out the new code and you can use some test core to see which display modes work.
Wire up the RS232 output of the board to your PC if you can.
/MikeJ

 Mail sent.  Complete TV spec. http://www.lcd-compare.com/televiseur-SAM40B6000-SAMSUNG-UE40B6000.htm

[Erol]

I'm lost on this thread, is this a FPGA Accelerator board being developed as a daughter board for classic OS?   can someone explain please.. ;-)


I know Lotharek created a Mist board for Atari/Amiga running on FPGA..
http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96

[mikej]

I'm lost on this thread, is this a FPGA Accelerator board being developed as a daughter board for classic OS?   can someone explain please.. ;-)


I know Lotharek created a Mist board for Atari/Amiga running on FPGA..
http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96

Look like it should take scan doubled 60Hz (which is the default) on VGA input. Odd.
/MikeJ

[ChaosLord]

I have found that a great many TVs and monitors have buggy instruction manuals.  The manuals say one thing but the reality is  the opposite.  Sometimes the tv is better than the manual says it is and other times it is worse than it says it is.

Can this TV be upgraded to a new version via its USB port?

Maybe they released a bugfix patch for the TV OS?

A lot of TVs have an upgrade feature.  Mine is upgradeable but I never dared to try it.  I don't want to risk blowing up my $2000.00 monitor/TV.

[freqmax]

If I switch the FPGA Arcade then the TV I see a partial workbench screen (half black and half workbench vertically, the quality is bad) then 2s after the "No signal" message.

Any picture of this ..?

Regarding the Samsung UE40B6000 it seems to lack the PAL modes:
Modes daffichage (VGA et HDMI / DVI)
- 640 x 480 @ 60, 72, 75 Hz
- 800 x 600 @ 60, 72, 75 Hz
- 1024 x 768 @ 60, 70, 75 Hz
- 1152 x 864 @ 75 Hz
- 1280 x 720 @ 70 Hz
- 1280 x 1024 @ 60, 70, 75 Hz
- 1280 x 800 @ 60, 74 Hz
- 1280 x 960 @ 60 Hz
- 1360 x 768 @ 60 Hz
- 1440 x 900 @ 60, 75 Hz
- 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
- 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

Perhaps 720x576p @ 50Hz is missing:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ece477/Webs/S12-Grp10/Datasheets/CEC_HDMI_Specification.pdf
"An HDMI Sink that accepts 50Hz video formats shall support the 640x480p @ 59.94/60Hz and 720x576p @ 50Hz video format timings." .. note that the supported formats doesn't include any 50 Hz ones.
Also listed under "6.3.1 Primary Video Format Timings".

Perhaps some code could be written that makes use of this:
"The DDC channel is used by an HDMI Source to determine the capabilities and characteristics of the Sink by reading the E-EDID data structure."

Ie if no 720x576p @ 50Hz format is available, then adapt some other..

[kamelito]

I managed to get a half decent WB screen (through VGA) by using the productivity screen mode which is 60hz. All others are 50hz, how can I have them all in 60hz instead of 50hz since NTSC is 60hz how do I switch to NTSC? I don't really recall how to do it except by pressing the 2 buttons during boot but as since I've no image it's worthless. I just need to have them to 60hz in the prefs. Is this something that you can set in the minimig core settings? If yes then I'm screwed since I can't display it correctly.  Just a thing about wireless kb and mouse, while I can  use the keyboard from many meters, the mouse is only working around a meter from the receiver be careful when you buy yours. (http://reviews.cnet.com/keyboards/dexxa-wls-dt-kybd/4505-3134_7-6295942.html)  Can anyone tell if my VGA adaptor is the right one?