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enribar
msx freak
Posts: 196 |  Posted: December 22 2008, 15:39 |
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legacy
msx professional
Posts: 534 | Posted: December 22 2008, 17:11 |
haruka282 wrote on youtube.
This system consists of original designed renderer, and ALTERA NiosII procesor and some peripheral IP-cores.
This time, FPGA device uses ALTERA Cyclone(EP1C12Q240C8). The target board is 1chipMSX-kit.
Now detailed information is only Japanese.
I like to know more about this.
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RetroTechie
msx freak
Posts: 224 | Posted: December 23 2008, 02:20 |
One of those reasons why you should regard a 1chipMSX as *more* than "just an MSX in a small box". If you can't appreciate what a FPGA is, you shouldn't throw your money at it.
It's too bad (and non-logical) they already stopped building the 1chipMSX. If I had the capital (unfortunately, I don't), I think it wouldn't be a bad investment to do another production run of these babies. Considering it's an open design, and they're doing around 200 Euro's currently (the parts inside don't cost half that!).
Whatever the reason(s), it goes against all economic laws to first do all the hard work, and once you've done that, only produce a tiny number of products. Because it's exactly those first few that are hard / expensive to make. Once you have those, it is increasingly cheaper / easier to produce more of the same. Looks like some folks over in Japan didn't get that  |
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enribar
msx freak
Posts: 196 | Posted: December 23 2008, 09:00 |
I agree, and to me it's also totally non-logical the missing of an official website dedicated to the 1chipMSX... :-(
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FiXato
msx addict
Posts: 467 | Posted: December 23 2008, 10:14 |
This is pretty neat  |
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MicroTech
msx freak
Posts: 168 | Posted: December 23 2008, 16:00 |
Absolutely cool!... but is it z80 inside or NIOS inside  |
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tcdev
msx lover
Posts: 75 | Posted: January 17 2009, 14:29 |
The description says it's a NIOS-II, which is a 32-bit RISC soft core processor.
BTW this design would have nothing in common with the MSX/OCM except the physical OCM hardware.
Also, as for producing more OCMs... I agree but IMHO they'd need to put a larger FPGA in there to make it really worthwhile.
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dhau
msx master
Posts: 1384 | Posted: January 22 2009, 01:46 |
I don't think that even the first 5000 batch was ever sold, and don't forget the Basix epic fail. I don't think there will be any new OCMs.
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Leo
msx professional
Posts: 859 | Posted: June 14 2009, 16:39 |
There could be a bride between that nios engine and msx :
nios could draw 3D ina 64kb bank ram also visible by the MSX in the VDP Extra bank region ?
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