FPGA Replay Board

[JimS]

That said, I can't plug my Emplant card into the FPGA Arcade (but I could always run Shapeshifter I guess).  

Isn't a 68k mac core for the replay in the works, making Shapeshifter unneeded?

[gaula92]

Isn't a 68k mac core for the replay in the works, making Shapeshifter unneeded?

I'd say it's the opposite, actually: isn't Shapeshifter working with the new core (as seen on youtube), making a 68k mac core unnedeed?
(For some reason, I find it quite funny! )

[gaula92]

I do not do bet or gambling, but one thing for sure if you ask me to hold my breath (seeing the record history in Amiga community with false promises) this is one with a risk too high for me to hold my breath.

I am not saying ALL promises have being false...there is some promises where they became true: Minimag, ACA and naming little view...but those are not severe upgrades to go jumping about. But ones something like UltimatePPC and Natami comes as a major change to the community and the raw meat is put in front of us behind glass...we can never seem to reach it. I hope FPGA Replay will not be that raw meat.

But the FPGA ARCADE is a reality. I have mine, waiting for the core upgrade wich is happening soonish. There's a lot of people who has one already. You're totally mistaken on where we are already
The only problem is, as far as I know, they're not mass-produced yet Minimig V1.1 style.
But I HOPE it will happen!

[spaceman88]

US customers that want to get on the waiting list, please click the link located in our NEWS page:

http://www.cbmstuff.com/news.htm

Thanks!

Jim

Can Canadians get on this list or is there a Canadian distributor?

[AmigaClassicRule]

Is it not possible that someone could own an A4000D and in the future FPGA Replay? I am sure the answer is yes.

[psxphill]

I'd say it's the opposite, actually: isn't Shapeshifter working with the new core (as seen on youtube), making a 68k mac core unnedeed?

A real 68k mac would be nice though, especially an original one.
 
You can run some ST software on the emulator for the Amiga too, but a real ST personality for the FPGAArcade would still be nice (and I have never owned an ST).

[JimS]

I'd say it's the opposite, actually: isn't Shapeshifter working with the new core (as seen on youtube), making a 68k mac core unnedeed?
(For some reason, I find it quite funny! )

Yeah, I see the humor there... back in the day, I thought it was a hoot to run MS-DOS, Amiga OS, and Finder "simultaneously" on my Bridgeboard-equipped A2000 running shapshifter. ;-)

[freqmax]

If you got FPGA with memory, video output, keyboard/joystick input and a PC to develop. And enough juice in these things, you can create anything within physical limits.

In essence your limits is FPGA matrix size and your imagination. So is XX possible?, yes provided you spend the hacky-hacky hours on it.

[vidarh]

Yeah, I see the humor there... back in the day, I thought it was a hoot to run MS-DOS, Amiga OS, and Finder "simultaneously" on my Bridgeboard-equipped A2000 running shapshifter. ;-)

I always love to freak younger geeks out by pointing out I had a machine with 6 CPUs back then (of course, only 4 of them actually in use at any one time - the 68000 and 8086 would usually be disabled) of 4 difference architectures:

 * 68000 + 68020 accelerator
 * 8086 + 80286 accelerator on the bridge board
 * Z80 controlling my SCSI card.
 * 6502 variant controlling the keyboard.

These days, the RAID controllers in our servers at work have PPC's in them, and many modern hard-drives have ARM cores in them, so we're up to 3 architectures still (and one of the reasons why x86 ranks so low in number of units shipped).

[freqmax]

The reason that x86 ranks and ships low is that the design is power hungry, inefficient and complex. It just sucks.

Funny thought.. one could implement a 80386 "sidecar" in HDL for an FPGA platform

[JimS]

I always love to freak younger geeks out by pointing out I had a machine with 6 CPUs back then (of course, only 4 of them actually in use at any one time - the 68000 and 8086 would usually be disabled) of 4 difference architectures:

You could make the same observation for the previous generation of machines too. My Atari 800 had a CPU in each of the four external floppies and the 850 serial interface. There's 6 right there. ;-) 7 if you stretch the point beyond elastic limits and consider Antic (the gfx chip) as a cpu. ;-)

[persia]

[freqmax]

And the point is?

[AmigaClassicRule]

And the point is?

I do not know myself...I am actually curious too.

[Darrin]

And the point is?

Buy low, sell high?  

[Darrin]

Is it not possible that someone could own an A4000D and in the future FPGA Replay? I am sure the answer is yes.

Absolutely.  And for what it is worth, I agree with you.  Since you want an "A4000" experience then you shouldn't think of buying an FPGA Arcade until the daughterboard is actually available to purchase.