FPGA Replay Board

[ElPolloDiabl]

It's good news they are almost ready.

Also, I can't wait till you reach the 200mhz mark. It would be like having the next generation of Amiga 4000.

[Antiriad]

We have been testing with caches off to try to eliminate one more layer  of potential issues, but the last thing I seem to remember from Mike was  a peak was around 106MHz 020+.  There can be improvements though from  there.  Mike is in the process of actually dramatically slowing down the  entire chipset because that is one of the issues with some games not  working... they bang on the custom chipset bus, expecting the operation to  act as a throttle mechanism.  Right now, there is no throttle!  Mike has  a provision in the OSD (on screen display, which the menu system) for  selecting 68000, 68010, 68EC020, and 68020 CPUs (and there is also the  chipset type there).  I am hoping we can add a 68040 mode w/MMU and  FPU.  There is plenty of space left in the FPGA for that - fortunately,  it's a big FPGA that's used in Replay.  There is also PicassoIV RTG  support.

I am distributing only to North America.  Purchases  outside of North America can be made through one of Mike's  distributors.  I do ship my products world-wide, and mark them so that  there is no (or very little) duties that are due.

Any news on the pre-order list from cbmstuff? Some of us in the US are trying to get hold to some of these boards.

Thanks

[Heiroglyph]

At what point can US buyers pay and expect to receive a board in a reasonable time frame?

The only reason I don't have one is that I didn't feel comfortable with the timeframes and the "if you ever emailed me, you're in the queue" nature of orders.

[JimDrew]

Until the Amiga core is completed to at least get rid of the current graphics glitch and CPU instruction emulation problem, I won't have any boards available.  Once I have boards, shipping is typically within 24hrs, that is how shipping is done with my other product.

[Gryfon]

I've been haunting this particular post and the FPGA Arcade forum for many years at this point.  It feels like Christmas is around the corner.

I'm very much looking forward to the Replay, especially seeing just how much effort Mike, Jim and the others are all putting into the Amiga (and other!) cores.

Thank you all for your efforts and patience.  We all look forward to the fruit of your labours.

Gryfon

[JimDrew]

I am just along for the ride.  This is Mike's baby.  I am not a FPGA guy  by any means, but I do know the Amiga hardware so I help where I can.

[Darth_X]

I used to avoid charges by getting them sent to work. The courier decides which parcels get inspected and they never could be bothered if it had a work address.
 
 The reason was it cost them too much money while the driver waited for someone to be found who could pay. Now you get a letter through the post and the parcel doesn't get released until you pay customs & excise direct.

Its handy if you work at a place that allows you to accept packages. I work in a grocery store, I doubt they'd let me accept packages ;-) heh!

[Everblue]

Are there any good recent videos of the minimig core running on the FPGA Arcade? Can't find much on Youtube, and certainly nothing recent.

Also, how well is the core running now?

[Darrin]

Are there any good recent videos of the minimig core running on the FPGA Arcade? Can't find much on Youtube, and certainly nothing recent.

Also, how well is the core running now?

Check out Mike's forum for the latest info.  I'm still using the old core because they keep tinkering with the code to improve it and squeeze out the best performance.  The result is that one day something works and the next it is broken, and then it is fixed again, etc.

Last time I checked it seemed to be the optimization of the hard drive and floppy emulation that was holding things up on the Amiga side.  There's also plenty of news there on how the other cores are progressing.

[mikej]

Last time I checked it seemed to be the optimization of the hard drive and floppy emulation that was holding things up on the Amiga side.  There's also plenty of news there on how the other cores are progressing.

Floppy (including SCP) and hard disk stuff all done - including direct block transfers to speed thinks up. RDB synthesis is missing still.
Main focus is on tweaking CPU/chipset access speeds and graphics glitches in AGA mode.
It should remain usable now as it was the disk stuff which was disruptive.

/Mike

[Darrin]

Floppy (including SCP) and hard disk stuff all done - including direct block transfers to speed thinks up. RDB synthesis is missing still.
Main focus is on tweaking CPU/chipset access speeds and graphics glitches in AGA mode.
It should remain usable now as it was the disk stuff which was disruptive.

/Mike

Cheers Mike.  So I should be OK to look at reflashing my board and using the new core?

[mikej]

Cheers Mike.  So I should be OK to look at reflashing my board and using the new core?

Yup. Remember to update the ARM firmware and the ini file as well.
/Mike

[Darrin]

Yup. Remember to update the ARM firmware and the ini file as well.
/Mike

Yeah, I'll need to look up those instructions when I get back from this latest trip.

[Dozer]

Not to be an ass.... but any ETA on when us "non-developers, but enthusiasts" can get our hands on this board?

"2015" is a valid answer to this question, I'm just looking for a ballpark here

[mikej]

Not to be an ass.... but any ETA on when us "non-developers, but enthusiasts" can get our hands on this board?

"2015" is a valid answer to this question, I'm just looking for a ballpark here

ASAP. I currently have over 100 boards in stock and I'm setting up a production run now.
I'll start shifting boards to distributors in the next two weeks.

[F0LLETT]

Hi Mike,

Im still unable to get this board working at all.