Minimig AGA 060 RTG

[espskog]

Correct. When using a daughter baord the FPGA on the main card does not have a CPU in it, so has more space for other stuff.

You can load the normal core as well then the daughter board is disabled.

That sounds cool. But will the other components of the daughterboard be disabled aswell as the 060 if I boot the "normal" core that has the 68020 inside or can I still access the usb+ethernet on the daughterboard ?

//Espen

[wizard66]

I wander how Yacube is doing with the RTG part for the Acrade Replay.
i'ts been weeks sins we have heard from him.
So Yacube feel free to update us with what your are doing right now :-)
Any progress?? are things working on the 020 core. (just curious how things are going along)

[espskog]

Me too I am super-eager to hear where in the project phase he and Mike is at the moment.

Some screen shots would be awesome

[amigadave]

Hi. Dr. Dave I could lend you my cased Replay for the showcase if you want. I would have to bubble wrap it a zillion times (to be safe..hehe) and ship it over to ya. Yet, it would take probably 3 weeks to ship (I just shipped my old MiniMig ITX_V2 to TX and it took like 25 days or so).

I ask for nothing in return but you'd have to pay shipping back to me. And to take good care of it at the show

Thanks for the offer. Please contact me via email. I will send you a PMail.

[mikej]

The man is on the way to deliver the first "production" batch from the factory here in China...

When I get them home I will start testing them and taking orders for these boards next week.

Pics to follow..
/MikeJ

[mikej]

I have them in my hand
/MikeJ

[freqmax]

I think this is the thread you are looking for: FPGA Replay Board

[Kesa]

I have them in my hand
/MikeJ

If you have them in your hand how can you type your post?   :roflmao:

[mikej]

I have two hand
/MikeJ

[espskog]

Are we talking about the daughterboards or the latest batch of replay boards ?

[ChaosLord]

That sounds cool. But will the other components of the daughterboard be disabled aswell as the 060 if I boot the "normal" core that has the 68020 inside or can I still access the usb+ethernet on the daughterboard ?

//Espen

That is a very good question!

[amigadave]

I have them in my hand
/MikeJ

Great news Mike!

I am ready to send my money to you for my board.  Just let me know when it is ready to ship.

What is the latest news about the daughter card design and firmware?

[espskog]

@Mike: Will the ethernet+usb on the daughterboard be available even when the 060 is not used (i.e. when booting a core with a soft-020 inside) ?

[_ThEcRoW]

I think that yaqube said that you could use the facilities in the daughterboard even if there is no 060 attached.

[freqmax]

At least mikej says so. And it computes with other facts.

[amigadave]

68060 chips are not that difficult or expensive to find, so I can't imagine too many people needing to worry about using this daughter board without an 060.  Finding the "Good" last revision 68060's that are capable of being over-clocked to 80MHz to 100MHz is harder, but I would imagine that even if you have to use one of the older, slower models of the 68060 and clock your daughter board at 50MHz or 60MHz, it will still be a good alternative to your A1200.

I already have my 68060 CPU waiting for this daughter board to become available, but it is not the last revision, so I am keeping an eye open looking for one of those, so I can run the daughter board at it's highest potential.

Edit:  I hope MikeJ and Yaqube will make the daughter board with a lot of extra RAM possible, for the few of us that would like to have >128mb of Fast RAM.  256mb, or 512mb would be nice if you are going to use the FPGA Arcade Replay to run Lightwave3D stand alone and some other RAM hungry Amiga programs.

I can't remember if MikeJ has integrated the ability to allocate more than 2mb of Chip RAM or not?  It would be nice to have 8mb or 16mb or more of Chip RAM that would allow some new larger screen resolutions with more colors, like what is planned for the Super AGA of the Natami, but the Natami has a new, faster blitter and I don't think that is available, or possible with the Replay (it's hardware does not exist except for on the Natami).