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How cheap are fgpas that could simulate an SNES or similar? Any chance we standardize and commoditize fpgas so that it can be just another device on a laptop o
by bhouston 7y ago
How cheap are fgpas that could simulate an SNES or similar?
Any chance we standardize and commoditize fpgas so that it can be just another device on a laptop or phone that anyone could use? Like bluetooth or a GPU or gps?
This has to happen at some point but how far off from that are we now?
I assume there are different grades of fpgas and that likely complicates things but it is like desktop GPUs are way way better than phone GPUs... But both run opengl/vulkan and essentially the same code.
- gpderetta 7y agoI know of FPGA based implementation of whole Amigas [1] and I do not htink they are particularly expensive. It is very likely that SNES reimplementations also exist already. Edit: this [2] is a full system for 220 euros and in addition to Amiga it emulates a bunch of 8 bit consoles. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig [2]: https://amigastore.eu/en/358-mist-midi-fpga-computer-with-midi-add-on.html https://amigastore.eu/en/358-mist-midi-fpga-computer-with-mi...
- krupan 7y agoThose are very good questions. I have a feeling that Intel is looking into this now that they have purchased Altera.