Fpgaarcade.com Website Review

this site is about recreating gaming and computing hardware from the past in modern programmable devices, known as fpgas. an fpga contains. a very large array of logic which can be configured by the user to perform just about any imaginable logic function.. they save all the has*le of making your own custom ic, and are a lot less time consuming than wiring up 100,000s of standard logic parts.. in modern devices we can fit complete systems, including processors, and they are cheap enough to allow mas* production.. it’s not emulation, it’s recreation…. and it’s open source. a core can be thought of as a hardware model that closely recreates the hardware of a specific home computer (amiga, c64…) or arcade machine (pac-man, phoenix…) and runs on the on-board xilinx fpga. beyond the hardware, the replay also includes a comprehensive framework library and firmware to aid developers with core implementation and reduces the maintenance burden of supporting future replay hardware versions. the replay also provides ample opportunity to expand the hardware with various daughter boards for specific applications such as the 68060 here’s a list of recommended parts and where to get them. unfortunately the replay board is out of stock and discontinued, but fear not, the replay 2 board is in the making and will hopefully be ready q1 2018. (this version will also include usb ports for hid. expansion slot for jamma expansion board, mc68060+ethernet board, etc.. high quality video output including dvi and an*logue output. although this project started out for recreating arcade games, i wondered back in 2003 if it was possible to implement a complete home computer system. the available fpgas were much smaller in those days, but a complete vic20 still fit. now we have a large number of platforms ported, including 16bit systems such as the amiga and atari st. the focus is always on implementing the original hardware as accurately as possible, but optional improvements are available too,