by MikeJ | Feb 17, 2019 | News
The final complete R1 & 68060 DB to ship Well, actually the last (I thought) Replay1 shipped years ago, but I’ve had one sitting around which failed production test. When a core boots up, the ini file for that core tells the software which files to upload...
by MikeJ | Feb 12, 2019 | News
Here at FPGAArcade we’ve always tried to reproduce retro hardware for preservation as accurately as possible. When I did the first Pacman design years ago it was quite easy as there were only a few custom ICs. I built some analysis hardware you can find way back...
by MikeJ | Feb 11, 2019 | News
We’ve bought a number of Ultra96 boards which contain a similar FPGA to the target device on Replay2. This will kick start development, especially on the Linux side. I’m also designing a small add-on board with the video output devices we’ll use on...
by MikeJ | Feb 8, 2019 | News
Very rough CAD drawing to play with IO connectors Replay2 is now in PCB design. We are using a Xilinx Ultrascale+ MPSoC device which combines a fast FPGA and a 64 bit Cortex A53 cluster. The device is built on 16nm FinFET+ logic. The processor system runs up to...
by MikeJ | Feb 4, 2019 | News
So first, I must apologise for it being quiet here news-wise. The active development is mostly on Slack now, but I will try and post updates here more often. So, Replay2 stalled. The issue was the excellent price/performance of the DE10 board (used in the Mister...
by MikeJ | Nov 8, 2017 | News
Over the years there has been a lot of frustration about the lack of Replay boards. The main issue was the lack of quality control on components from China which caused a lot of rework effort. In retrospect, we should probably have thrown these away and built new...
by MikeJ | Nov 4, 2017 | Core News
A little over 34 years ago, Acorn Computers Ltd released a budget version of the BBC Micro, the Acorn Electron. For a time it was apparently the best selling Micro in the United Kingdom, although in more recent years the Electron seems to be overshadowed by its big...
by MikeJ | Oct 11, 2017 | News
We commissioned the decap and scanning of Alice, probably the most important custom chip in the Amiga. Thanks to John Hertell for the device, and to John McMaster for the decap and scan. Here is the image data in full :...
by MikeJ | Sep 11, 2017 | News
The layout for the Replay 68060 board is complete and has been sent for manufacture. It adds 128MB of local RAM, USB, Ethernet, RTC as well as additional Midi and LED IO connectors. The picture below is a quick mock-up to see if the components actually fit 🙂 ...
by MikeJ | Aug 1, 2017 | News
A new Amiga RTG driver was just released with some fixes. Download:...
by MikeJ | Aug 1, 2017 | Core News
A new Amiga core was just released with a fix on the RTG interrupt + new RTG driver that handle the interrupt correctly....
by MikeJ | Aug 26, 2016 | News
Still working on reformatting the archive, hopefully Christian well get some time to tidy up the PDFs. Here’s the unsorted ones I extracted. I’ve contacted the original tool vendor, just in case they will help us with the recovery process. ...
by MikeJ | Aug 25, 2016 | News
Well, summer is now over and it’s time to crack on with the FPGA work. I’m still busy repairing the last few boards, and work is well under way on the daughterboard and new production run. I’ve been chatting with a couple of guys over on atari-forum...
by MikeJ | May 8, 2016 | News
I’m starting the work on updating the website and servers. The developers SVN will be off line for a few moments today. /Mike
by MikeJ | Apr 29, 2016 | News
You may have noticed the forum is down. This appears to be a problem with the hosting company after an update. I have run a full back now and we are working on it …. … And it’s all ok again. Happy Friday!
by MikeJ | Apr 14, 2016 | News
The forum is really the place to see regular updates, but I thought it was time for a summary here. The Amiga code is pretty stable. Work is being done to add RTG interlaced modes and increase CPU performance further, but the main focus at the moment is on hardware....
by MikeJ | Feb 26, 2016 | Core News
I’ve released a new version of the Amiga core (https://github.com/FPGAArcade). New features : 48M XRAM mapped as Chip and all chipset DMA pointers support 64M addressing (optionally enabled in OSD / .ini file) CPU cache stable – 2 way I + D with full...
by MikeJ | Jan 21, 2016 | Core News
A lot of work has been done both on the CPU to increase compatibility, and the core to get the cache working and timing closure. The design is completely constrained and this results in a very stable platform Latest features: 2K Instruction plus 2K Data cache with...
by MikeJ | Nov 26, 2015 | News
Taking a quick break from the Amiga core development to ship some hardware. Workbench is full, this is the overflow storage! (These are all going to the distributors. If you were on the original list please email me. I also have boards at reduced cost for developers...
by MikeJ | Nov 21, 2015 | News
The latest Amiga AGA core is in beta with support for P96 compatible RTG. It also includes a hardware blitter engine which is used by the card driver to speed up window movements. There is still work to do increasing the pixel clock, but it’s nice to see...
