Thanks Chris for making this video to promote the project. It’s been a long running project but it’s almost done now and I’m happy with the outcome. Thanks to everyone that has helped me achieve this 😊
BIG fan of FPGA recreation of chips. I use J-CIA's and J-CPU in my C64, FPGA recreations of the CPU and CIA's. This will be the future of chip replacement and will keep our machines alive for probably longer than the both of us ;)
This is great. I'll be in line for one of these when they're available. I have an accelerator and I have scsi probs. I have done so many other things (yes upgrading the scsi and buster chips) to try to fix yet still have voodoo freakin' scsi. Maybe this'll be the fix. Sounds promising.
Very cool to see somes are devoted to keep alive those precious ancient machines :) like the C64 with the VIC chip Kawari!! and others :) Make Amiga great again !
Plug and play is the way. I've just started to get into programming FPGAs, hopefully I'm smart enough to bring my ideas to fruition and make something worth while for the Amiga. Love your videos, keep them coming.
Here’s hoping that the Agnus comes as FPGA version as well. I had a Denise (A500+ kind of re-build in ITX) board built, with mistakes, then got it by another builder in Sweden to repair/fix the issues, and well somewhere in the build process the 1 MB Agnus got damaged. It was hard enough getting the 1 Meg Agnus, and finding another is harder. Seems if sold it is extreme prices..
Great stuff 👍🏻 Just a shame that the Buster 13 with Dave Haynie are not progressing 😔 I wonder if the same people who have done this maybe able to get it done? 🤔 Cheers 🍻
Very good job. It's fantastic to see peoples worked on 'vintage' machine and the best Amiga And for Europe. French here with my A3000 SCSI internal don't work ans I don t know if is DMAC or the SCSI chip. I used the SCSI on WarpEngine board.
Holy cow. Now I can ditch the extra scsi cards and just use the onboard. This is fantastic news for all 3000 owners. I only have one 3000 left with a BFG and scsi cards. Now I can ditch the scsi cards.
I have been praying for the full chipset collection to be recreated, wasn't paula and/or denise already recreated in FPGA suitable for replacement in real hardware? when the remaining are out and about this will be fun, specially if them FPGAs used are not fully used and have spare LEs etc (don't care about pins that much after all) after all that means we can add hardware features :P
NIice! I will not be doing much with my Amiga's until early next year when I plan on taking them apart for some planned PM and to address misc issues but that's next years project. I have to wrap up on a couple other projects which has taken me away from my Amiga's. While the purists don't have much good to say about FPGA, the day will come when the FPGA will save their Amigas so I am excited about FPGA projects. Lets face it they only made so many chips and those chips will all fail at some point so FPGA replacements is essential to keeping our Classic Amiga Hardware working.
About 10 years ago, I wondered if Amiga custom chips would ever be implemented in FPGA chips. Everyone thought I am crazy. I was thinking about WinUAE, which emulates Amiga chipset. I wondered if it would be possible to transfer that emulation into FPGA as standalone custom chips.
Every time I see an Amiga I can't help but shake my head over the potential that Commodore squandered. The Amiga was years ahead of anything else on the market when it was released. Imagine how different the world of computing would be had Commodore not bought the Amiga corporation and bungled the Amiga into oblivion.
The world would've turned out broadly similar to today. The underlying computer technology is not the problem we have with computers. People are the problem.
We so badley need this to happen to the Agnus and CIA chips. I know there are some plans to do so but nothing seems to be happening with either for some time. Both those chips are so expensive now and with the case of the Agnus not available new, add to that that every one wants the 2mb version. Supposedly there were plans for a 3 or 4mb Agnus as the hardware addressing could theoretically take up to 8mb. That would be great to see and could be achieved via FPGA
It would be cool if they would start making pizza box style Amiga cases again, but based in the US so shipping isn't a ton of money like the Checkmate cases
A few years ago, I tested various combinations of setups: Ramsey 04 + SDMAC 02, Ramsey 07 + SDMAC 02, Ramsey 04 + DMAC 04, and I didn’t encounter any issues with SCSI. However, I was using the SCSI chip WD33C93A 00-08. Changing the Ramsey and SDMAC chips did not affect the data transfer speed in my case :)
This is for compatibility with the new series of accelerators that have come out in the past several years. All the original stuff would always work but being 30+ years old now they’re all turning into hen’s teeth.
Hey, how exactly is a rainbow made? How exactly does the sun set? How exactly does the posi-trac rear end on a Plymouth work!? It just does. It just does.
Do Dave and co. have the original designs/code to help speed up reimplementation of the chips using contemporary tech in their personal archives? Not sure if there would be IP issues at this point though.
amiga fell to the extensions, they should have designed a new machine not using the same platform back compat. mos comdr made dmac trash i c. now it just works (tm)(r). cool.
Thanks Chris for making this video to promote the project. It’s been a long running project but it’s almost done now and I’m happy with the outcome. Thanks to everyone that has helped me achieve this 😊
Chris, great to see another Amiga custom Chip re-engineered. Now all we need is a re-engineered 2mb Agnus.
Fantastic video Chris =D I can see you are as excited over this as I am =D I really need to get that 3000 board up and running so I can take a look!
Very glad this exists. I really hope more of the Amiga custom chips can go this way. As they become more and more rare.
BIG fan of FPGA recreation of chips. I use J-CIA's and J-CPU in my C64, FPGA recreations of the CPU and CIA's. This will be the future of chip replacement and will keep our machines alive for probably longer than the both of us ;)
Getting closer and closer to the possibility of building an Amiga with all brand new parts!
This is great. I'll be in line for one of these when they're available. I have an accelerator and I have scsi probs. I have done so many other things (yes upgrading the scsi and buster chips) to try to fix yet still have voodoo freakin' scsi. Maybe this'll be the fix. Sounds promising.
Very cool to see somes are devoted to keep alive those precious ancient machines :) like the C64 with the VIC chip Kawari!! and others :) Make Amiga great again !
Plug and play is the way. I've just started to get into programming FPGAs, hopefully I'm smart enough to bring my ideas to fruition and make something worth while for the Amiga. Love your videos, keep them coming.
I think this sort of stuff is truely wonderful. Will have to get a couple for my 3000's. Thank you all and Dr Chris.
This is a gamechanger! :) Great work på the team! (and thanx for showing it)
O.M.G.. - now all we need is a superbuster 11 fpga ("12").
"B-sac B-sac" - no kicking pls
Absolutely amazing stuff👏
Hi Ya & best wishes. SuperB! Thanks for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea!!!
Nice to see a Happy Chris, you deserve it after all the grief you give yourself fixing other peoples equipment, enjoy.
this is awesome news i have a 02 based AA3000+ that this will help
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you.
Wow, so nice, and also nice to see you so happy that it worked first try🎉good for you
Hi Chris, Thats a nice thing. Nice to hear from you. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
Here’s hoping that the Agnus comes as FPGA version as well. I had a Denise (A500+ kind of re-build in ITX) board built, with mistakes, then got it by another builder in Sweden to repair/fix the issues, and well somewhere in the build process the 1 MB Agnus got damaged. It was hard enough getting the 1 Meg Agnus, and finding another is harder. Seems if sold it is extreme prices..
Great stuff 👍🏻 Just a shame that the Buster 13 with Dave Haynie are not progressing 😔 I wonder if the same people who have done this maybe able to get it done? 🤔 Cheers 🍻
I am so happy for you. I have never seen you so happy.
I get that way every time I bring a machine back to life
Now we need to fix the chip errors on the AGA chips...
Very good job. It's fantastic to see peoples worked on 'vintage' machine and the best Amiga
And for Europe. French here with my A3000 SCSI internal don't work ans I don t know if is DMAC or the SCSI chip. I used the SCSI on WarpEngine board.
very nice that it just works, I've seen the issues you've had with the BFG9000
Holy cow. Now I can ditch the extra scsi cards and just use the onboard. This is fantastic news for all 3000 owners. I only have one 3000 left with a BFG and scsi cards. Now I can ditch the scsi cards.
I have been praying for the full chipset collection to be recreated, wasn't paula and/or denise already recreated in FPGA suitable for replacement in real hardware? when the remaining are out and about this will be fun, specially if them FPGAs used are not fully used and have spare LEs etc (don't care about pins that much after all) after all that means we can add hardware features :P
NIice! I will not be doing much with my Amiga's until early next year when I plan on taking them apart for some planned PM and to address misc issues but that's next years project. I have to wrap up on a couple other projects which has taken me away from my Amiga's. While the purists don't have much good to say about FPGA, the day will come when the FPGA will save their Amigas so I am excited about FPGA projects. Lets face it they only made so many chips and those chips will all fail at some point so FPGA replacements is essential to keeping our Classic Amiga Hardware working.
Wow! Supercool
This is freaking cool. I need to check what version DMAC is in my A3000...
About 10 years ago, I wondered if Amiga custom chips would ever be implemented in FPGA chips. Everyone thought I am crazy. I was thinking about WinUAE, which emulates Amiga chipset. I wondered if it would be possible to transfer that emulation into FPGA as standalone custom chips.
That’s awesome
Awww yis! New episode 💪
You know it's serious when the doc has the lab jacket on
Very Cool! :D
Every time I see an Amiga I can't help but shake my head over the potential that Commodore squandered. The Amiga was years ahead of anything else on the market when it was released. Imagine how different the world of computing would be had Commodore not bought the Amiga corporation and bungled the Amiga into oblivion.
Then Atari would’ve had it and ran it into the ground
The world would've turned out broadly similar to today. The underlying computer technology is not the problem we have with computers. People are the problem.
We so badley need this to happen to the Agnus and CIA chips. I know there are some plans to do so but nothing seems to be happening with either for some time. Both those chips are so expensive now and with the case of the Agnus not available new, add to that that every one wants the 2mb version. Supposedly there were plans for a 3 or 4mb Agnus as the hardware addressing could theoretically take up to 8mb. That would be great to see and could be achieved via FPGA
BUSTER12 next? 🤔
It would be cool if they would start making pizza box style Amiga cases again, but based in the US so shipping isn't a ton of money like the Checkmate cases
Shalom!!!
A few years ago, I tested various combinations of setups: Ramsey 04 + SDMAC 02, Ramsey 07 + SDMAC 02, Ramsey 04 + DMAC 04, and I didn’t encounter any issues with SCSI. However, I was using the SCSI chip WD33C93A 00-08. Changing the Ramsey and SDMAC chips did not affect the data transfer speed in my case :)
This is for compatibility with the new series of accelerators that have come out in the past several years. All the original stuff would always work but being 30+ years old now they’re all turning into hen’s teeth.
Awesome 😊 Do you have a Videopac or Magnavox Odyssey? I like it. It's a true survivalist 😊
Hey, how exactly is a rainbow made? How exactly does the sun set? How exactly does the posi-trac rear end on a Plymouth work!?
It just does. It just does.
👋🤜🤛🤝👏💥!!!
You should forward this to Dave Hyne as he was working with DeComp to release a new new chip for the A3000.
I talk to Dave all the time
Do Dave and co. have the original designs/code to help speed up reimplementation of the chips using contemporary tech in their personal archives?
Not sure if there would be IP issues at this point though.
Would this work on an A2091? If it did there would likely be no advantage though such as dma into 32bit ram since the A2091 is on the zorroii bus.
This has nothing to do with that Zorro true card it’s DMA and scsi compatibility for the 3000 and hopefully the 3000 tower
Does that robot work?
Yes
Just need to get a Amiga3000 first, and those are not cheap was 40 years ago and still cost insane amount.
That’s why I have such a high balance on Paypal Credit. There’s no price on happiness.
brr i thought this was a V4SA competitor when i clicked on the vid.. : ( still pretty cool though : )
if you believe rockstar !!!! DMA stands for : doesnt mean anything :)
So what about the Agnes replicas for OCS and ECS boards? those obese chips are getting expensive.
The same team making this one is in the works on that one also
amazing how the Amiga community has endured.
Жмякни 'Лайк' под видео сейчас!!!
Yes please!
amiga fell to the extensions, they should have designed a new machine not using the same platform back compat. mos comdr made dmac trash i c. now it just works (tm)(r). cool.