[HN Gopher] Amiga Minimig Ported to Tang Nano 20k FPGA
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       Amiga Minimig Ported to Tang Nano 20k FPGA
        
       Author : riedel
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2024-05-26 17:31 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | riedel wrote:
       | I was watching Till Harbaums github in the hope to see this
       | happen: awesome! I will have to go shopping for a tang nano
       | immediately.
        
       | zokier wrote:
       | It is interesting to see where MiSTer community will be going,
       | the DE-10 Nano board that forms the core of the system is very
       | long on the tooth and also quite expensive for what it is. But
       | for ecosystem as complex as MiSTer shifting platforms is immense
       | task.
        
         | lexlash wrote:
         | Cheap clones of the DE-10 Nano ($99 target) are allegedly on
         | the way along with new boards that make different tradeoffs
         | with the pins. Should be interesting - there's a lot of life
         | left (PSX/N64/Saturn are all very recently added) imo but the
         | price and availability issues are unfortunate.
        
           | rbanffy wrote:
           | The MisTER family was always a bit expensive for the benefit
           | it provides compared to software emulators. It is a tool for
           | extreme fidelity, the kind of which you want when you are
           | driving original hardware, but that's a need few people have.
        
             | bluescrn wrote:
             | It's about reducing latency between input and output more
             | than improving emulation precision.
        
               | makapuf wrote:
               | Indeed. A CRT and noise making floppy disks are higher on
               | my point of view for amiga fidelity than bettzr than
               | cycle perfect emulation.
        
             | nxobject wrote:
             | IIRC, the platform was built off development/evaluation
             | boards that was primarily targeted towards the education
             | market, anyway.
             | 
             | It looks like the platform here is a low-frills one from a
             | company that isn't Altera, Xilinx, or Lattice. Good! I'm
             | glad there's some competition.
        
         | riedel wrote:
         | Getting from more than 200 EUR/USD down to less than 50 is a
         | big deal IMHO, but also just the availability of of the Tang
         | boards is so much better. This is at a point where it starts to
         | be fun again for an average hardware enthusiast to play around
         | again with different hardware emulations.
         | 
         | I own both a real Amiga 500 and a MIST box. While pure software
         | emulation might be great by now, it just deals so much more
         | real on hardware (with my old micro switch joysticks).
        
       | dist1ll wrote:
       | Sipeed's Tang FPGAs are really interesting. I've been eyeing the
       | Tang Mega 138k because of its 10GbE ports, especially considering
       | how reasonable the price is.
        
       | rbanffy wrote:
       | The FPGA emulation space is something I had high hopes for, but,
       | in the end, the desktop Alto, Lilith, Star, Symbolics, Apollos,
       | and TI Micro Explorers I was interested in never materialised
       | (and the keyboards/mice would add to the already substantial
       | price tags).
        
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