The very talented Arnim Laeuger has been working with our new Replay framework to bring his games to the Arudino Vidor 4000 FPGA platform (called V4 from here down)

The Vidor is a low cost FPGA board available here : https://store.arduino.cc/mkr-vidor-4000

To support the cores, the firmware which runs on the Replay1 board ARM can now be built for the SAMD21 within the Arduino IDE.

We have abstracted the FPGA framework and created a build system so that the same core can be built for the V4 and the Replay1 board, as well as the up-coming Replay2 board.

Here we have the Videopac core with KC Munchkin on V4

And here Colecovision Frogger on the V4, with Frogger on Replay1’s Videopac core in the small picture.

Ignore the configured time here, we had a bug….

We’ve started to put some binary releases here on github here, https://github.com/fpgaarcade

Our aim is to include every FPGA game we can find (including lots of my own stuff which never made it onto Replay1) into this new framework and publish it asap.

I have an original Replay1a board back for repair at the moment, so I thought I would take a picture of the family together.

R1a on the left. R1b next with the 68060 daughter board.

Top right the Arduino MKRVidor4000 we are targeting to be a low cost R1 replacement.

Bottom right the Zynq Ultrascale board which we are using to evaluating the SOC for R2. I’m currently designing a small expansion board which will let me test analogue and digital video out from the FPGA fabric.

Exciting times!

/Mike

We’ve sold all the boards in Europe. Jim Drew still has one or two in the US which can be shipped anywhere.

If you have a Replay1 board, this is your last change to get one! Ping me or Jim.

Cheers,

Mike

Took a quick break from the new Replay build system today and tested a batch of replacement 503 ICs.

They appear to work well, so I can ship the board back to it’s owner and get some desk space back!

You can see the new 40 pin module working on the board below. I’ve got some left in stock, contact me if you need any – as well as a wide selection of 28 pin replacements.

/Mike