While Ive kept a rough eye on them, Ive never really been particularly interested in the fpga based amiga clones, but after recent storms here that resulted in roof damage directly above my a1200 and water leaking into it Ive been giving thought as to how Id replace it.
After the problems I had getting ahold of a decent, good value a1200 + accelerator the (potential) accesibility of an fpga based amiga has started to appeal to me.
Could anyone give me a brief overview of the FPGA Arcade and minimig please? What sort of performance cpu performance is available? Also, Im led to believe that chipram can be beyond 2 meg for both? Being that Im interested in making games for ecs/aga this is of interest to me. I assume that some ram chipram bottlenecks are remvoed too and that 64bit reads are "fixed" because of this now? (not all aga machines shipped with fast enough ram to work stabily/reliably if I recall correctly?)
Is there any chance of incompatibilty between one fpga machine with more than 2meg chip
and another assuming software is written to address beyond 2 meg? Also, is UAE with more than 2 meg chip suitable for developing for these systems?
If Im not mistaken, there's currently only minimig available to buy, but fpga arcade isnt too far away? There's also a Minimig ARM based expansion if Im not mistaken?
Thanks in advance.
p.s. Im only really interested in ecs/aga which is why Ive excluded Natami. Im sure it'll be a nice machine, but amithlon is my choice for a powerful 68k/os3.x machine. SAGA is sort of redundant for my interests, so Natami is probably a bit overkill for me.
p.p.s. I appologize if there's a lack of clairty. 5.30am and Ive not slept yet