Minimig AGA 060 RTG

[Heiroglyph]

As I said before it's a simple frame buffer but in the future it will be expanded by a dedicated blitter engine. Everything has been made by me.

It may be a simple framebuffer, but I suspect that with the increased bandwidth it's far from slow compared to older hardware.

Awesome work BTW, I can't wait to get one.  Money is in hand, I just can't seem to get anyone to take it

[psxphill]

It's much easier to write a simple P96 driver than clone an existing SVGA chipset

Did you get the official SDK for developing drivers or did you reverse engineer one?

[billt]

Right now it's not a high priority. I tried to make use of the extra DDR memory bandwidth and I was surprised how easy it was to implement a simple frame buffer and write a driver for it.

As I said before it's a simple frame buffer but in the future it will be expanded by a dedicated blitter engine. Everything has been made by me.

I'm curious also why not a P96 driver for AGA direct. Is it still not able to perform well enough, even with all the good things that Minimig in a good FPGA offer with this DDR bandwidth etc?

[DaBest]

I want one....--->now<---

[amigadave]

I want a replay board!!!!!. can't wait!!!

Aren't there some available right now?  I thought that MikeJ still had some from the second production batch that he has not sold yet.  Maybe I am wrong, I have been away working in Hawaii, 21 miles North of Hilo, for the past 4-1/2 weeks, without any Internet connection, so I am probably behind in the latest Amiga news regarding the Replay boards.

I also want a Replay board and the 060 daughtercard.  If there are any Replay boards still available, I will probably ask MikeJ to buy one this week.  I want to have it running the Minimig core + AGA for my trip to the AmiWest 2011 Show this year.  It will be a great machine to run on the rear seat flip-down video screen while someone else takes a turn driving.

I know that the 060 board won't be ready for a while, but I hope most of the remaining work on the Replay core code will be finished before the AmiWest Show starts.  Or is the code for the menu finished already (I have not made it to the beginning of this thread yet, working backward).

Why do so many people use "Minimig AGA" to title threads about the Replay board?  Well, on to the beginning of this thread, reading the rest of it.

[Darrin]

Why do so many people use "Minimig AGA" to title threads about the Replay board?  Well, on to the beginning of this thread, reading the rest of it.

It's the usual confusion between cores and hardware.  The hardware is the "FPGA Arcade", but it is running a "Minimig AGA" core.  So, depending on how you look at it, "Minimig AGA" is technically both right and wrong.

[vidarh]

for the past 4-1/2 weeks, without any Internet connection

Scary... The last time I was without an internet connection that long was back in 1993, before I got my first 2400 bps modem for my A500...

Not sure I could survive that these days.

[DavidF215]

A Minimig with an 060 and RTG? This really could replace my old A1200.

[yaqube]

I'm curious also why not a P96 driver for AGA direct.

Because Picasso96 was created to support chunky and high/true colour graphics. The AGA chipset is not capable of displaying these formats. That's why.

[nikodr]

Because Picasso96 was created to support chunky and high/true colour graphics. The AGA chipset is not capable of displaying these formats. That's why.

I suppose custom chunky to planar conversions could make though a p96 possible?Nowdays with those fpga cores and and the faster speed they can achieve a chunky to planar could be no problem without any speed penalties.

[yaqube]

I suppose custom chunky to planar conversions could make though a p96 possible?Nowdays with those fpga cores and and the faster speed they can achieve a chunky to planar could be no problem without any speed penalties.

Nowadays FPGAs are big and fast enough to integrate chunky/true colour display (RTG card) and AGA chipset in one core.

[Cosmos Amiga]

Nowadays FPGAs are big and fast enough to integrate chunky/true colour display (RTG card) and AGA chipset in one core.

That's very good ! Hurry up, I cannot wait anymore...

I will come in Poland with a lot of vodka's bottles soon to celebrate this funny news, héhé !

[espskog]

It may be a simple framebuffer, but I suspect that with the increased bandwidth it's far from slow compared to older hardware.

Awesome work BTW, I can't wait to get one.  Money is in hand, I just can't seem to get anyone to take it

Yeah, that's a weird paradox in the FPGA-Replay world these days :roflmao:

[espskog]

The resolutions of the Minimig RTG card are programmable. You can define your own 16:9 modes with standard Picasso96Mode setting program. Initially (due to pixel clocks limitations) you will be able to define 1680x1050 resolution with refresh rate of 50 Hz. The support for 60 Hz refresh rate will come later.

We are all very glad to hear that 16:9 modes are possible to define

Is it long before you have a ARM FW or a Core we can beta-test ?
How is it going with the Daughterboard. Where in the process is that project as of today. We're very eager to send you guys money

[whiteb]

Aren't there some available right now?  I thought that MikeJ still had some from the second production batch that he has not sold yet.  

I would be up for taking one then, assuming that when the 060 board is released, it will be compatible with the older batches (Unlike some Peecee hardware).

Then again, do we have a comparison list of the changes/Differences between the batches ? (If there are any changes that is).

[DLH]

I am ready to purchase.
 
I travel 9-10 months out of the year and really need something small to haul around.
 
DLH