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Originally Posted by chiark
I love the misterfpga, it’s incredible. “byte Mavericks” mentioned above is me, and I’ve created a small board that drives the Amiga keyboard leds too...
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Ah cool! Thanks for publishing your version of that firmware - it works a treat, and we recently adjusted the MiST firmware with a minor hack so it works on MiST too (MiST only supports USB Boot Protocol which is basically what the Arduino keyboard library uses - but it doesn't signal that it's bootp capable to the computer.)
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Originally Posted by VladR
As for the price, according to digiKey, it's $170 right now:
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That's just for the base DE10-nano - you need more than that - for Amiga you need an SDRAM module (32 meg is enough for Amiga, 128 meg is needed for more advanced cores) and you'll want an IO board for audio, too.
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Now, with MiSTer - do I just buy a board myself and flash it myself with USB Blaster ?
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It has a built-in USB blaster, but you won't need that unless you start developing cores. It has a minimal Linux OS which boots very quickly, and that OS is in charge of loading cores from SD card.
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I'd hate to find out 3 months later that if I only spent , for example, $30 more I could have had a FPGA board with, say, 2x gates/logic!
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That depends on whether there's anything useful you can do with that 2x gates / logic!
As of right now, the Amiga core can be a cycle-accurate 68000, or it can be roughly equivalent to very fast '030. It's not likely to be a useful point of reference if you're targetting '040 / '060, even once the host-side emulation stuff works.