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Hey, I reckon most people have heard about how Mister FPGA would be pretty dang awesome if you could get one for a decent price... but intel sucks.
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Anyway, l thought i would throw this one out here:
I recently acquired a Sipeed Tang nano 20k, and i gotta say that it's pretty decent FPGA platform ($20 or $40 with accessories). The developers seem to be interested in promoting FPGA as a gaming platform and the 168k model could really potentially outperform the DE-10 nano if it gets some more love from the community.
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So far, I've tried NEStang and SNEStang on the 20k, and it's definitely worth picking one up. It's like "Tiny Little Super Guy" (no bigger than your thumb!)
Anyway, just throwin it out there.
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^^This package comes with a breadboard, sd card, cables and 2 Dualshock style controllers, you can also wire SNES controllers to the board, if you prefer. it has analog audio out too, but i didn't get it to work yet.
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^^ on the dev side, nand2mario has been doing a lot of work on the console side of development, NEStang and SNEStang work plug-and-play with the "20k nano".
You would need at least a 60k board to run GBAtang or MDtang, and it is more fiddly to set that up right now.
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Sipeed is releasing a new 60k board next month which has a pi-hat form factor, which should be pretty sweet, there are several retro computer cores which use a raspberry pi to handle file transfer, and the pihat will provide DMA support to access the Raspbery Pi 5's RAM by the FPGA.
github.com
github.com
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Sipeed also say they have 60k and 168k dedicated handheld gaming models in the pipeline. (sometime next year?)
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(20k, 60k, 168k refers to the number of logic elements on the FPGA)
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Anyway, l thought i would throw this one out here:
I recently acquired a Sipeed Tang nano 20k, and i gotta say that it's pretty decent FPGA platform ($20 or $40 with accessories). The developers seem to be interested in promoting FPGA as a gaming platform and the 168k model could really potentially outperform the DE-10 nano if it gets some more love from the community.
x.com
x.com
So far, I've tried NEStang and SNEStang on the 20k, and it's definitely worth picking one up. It's like "Tiny Little Super Guy" (no bigger than your thumb!)
Anyway, just throwin it out there.
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Amazon.com: Sipeed Tang Nano 20K GW2AR-18 FPGA Single Board Computer, Open Source RISCV Linux Retro Game Console, Onboard 64Mbits SDRAM BL616 Debugger, Support Multiple Display Outputs NES Emulator : Electronics
Amazon.com: Sipeed Tang Nano 20K GW2AR-18 FPGA Single Board Computer, Open Source RISCV Linux Retro Game Console, Onboard 64Mbits SDRAM BL616 Debugger, Support Multiple Display Outputs NES Emulator : Electronics
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^^This package comes with a breadboard, sd card, cables and 2 Dualshock style controllers, you can also wire SNES controllers to the board, if you prefer. it has analog audio out too, but i didn't get it to work yet.
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nand2mario - Overview
FPGA retro gaming and computing. . nand2mario has 31 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
github.com
^^ on the dev side, nand2mario has been doing a lot of work on the console side of development, NEStang and SNEStang work plug-and-play with the "20k nano".
You would need at least a 60k board to run GBAtang or MDtang, and it is more fiddly to set that up right now.
...
Sipeed is releasing a new 60k board next month which has a pi-hat form factor, which should be pretty sweet, there are several retro computer cores which use a raspberry pi to handle file transfer, and the pihat will provide DMA support to access the Raspbery Pi 5's RAM by the FPGA.
GitHub - MiSTle-Dev/NanoMig: Amiga Minimig ported to the Tang Nano 20k FPGA
Amiga Minimig ported to the Tang Nano 20k FPGA. Contribute to MiSTle-Dev/NanoMig development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
GitHub - MiSTle-Dev/MiSTeryNano: Atari STE MiSTery core for the Tang Nano FPGAs
Atari STE MiSTery core for the Tang Nano FPGAs. Contribute to MiSTle-Dev/MiSTeryNano development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
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Sipeed also say they have 60k and 168k dedicated handheld gaming models in the pipeline. (sometime next year?)
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(20k, 60k, 168k refers to the number of logic elements on the FPGA)
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