amiga2000-gfxcard

It’s amazing to see this and the similarities to my Amiga VA2000 graphics card that I did many years later, but I swear I didn’t see this before. VA2000 did HDMI output and some very basic 2D acceleration. It’s now sold out. I just completed the PCB design for ZZ9000 (firmware is in beta already), a bigger follow-up based on ZYNQ and using the ARM cores for some graphics and general purpose acceleration. It will be open sourced as well. Do you think there is demand to spin an open HD framebuffer+ARM card for other platforms as well? ZZ9000: https://shop.mntmn.com/products/zz9000-for-amiga-preorder VA2000: https://github.com/mntmn/amiga2000-gfxcard

> What can’t you do with 50$ SoC that you can do with FPGA in same price range? Among other things... Timing-accurate reproduction of vintage platforms, for maximum compatibility with original software and peripherals [1] [2] [3] [4]. Modern full-power desktop processors can do some of the earlier/slower ones, but virtually no SoC-type chips, even the ones in flagship smartphones, have the performance to keep up. The software architecture is like splitting the difference between an HDL simulator and a traditional computer/console emulator, so you can probably guess how slow it is. Conversely, modern peripherals compatible with the original hardware ([5] [6]) can also benefit a great deal from FPGA, since many modern capabilities and densities are only available in chips with more complex interfaces than the flat system bus typically used

Sources & Background https://github.com/mntmn/amiga2000-gfxcard