PCE FPGA

[elmer]

Kevtris may actually want to know this before losing his shirt in a HuCARD-only system that isn't going to sell anywhere near as well as something that can play CDROM2 stuff.

I really think it would be a good idea to do the CD section first.

I suspect that you're over-estimating the importance of the PCE community.

From what I see, the Analogue NT Mini is pretty-much only-selling in its current volume because Kevtris has released all those 8-bit cores for it.

If/when he creates his Zimba3K ... the flagship cores will be the SNES and Megadrive. It'll sell on those alone ... maybe even to a bunch of the folks here.

Sure, I totally agree with you about the CD, and I'm only going to be interested in it personally if it has PCE-CD support ... but the dedicated fans here are a very, very, small percentage of his potential audience.

He's not going to suffer any significant financial loss if he doesn't make us happy.

BUT ... I honestly think that he creates these cores for his own reasons and amusement.

I fully expect that he'll create a PCE-CD core at some point, for the fun of a different challenge if for nothing else.

I'll love to be able to think of a good way to show him *why* a PCE-CD core is essential ... but this community (or rather, a single member) already pissed him off once, so a letter-writing-campaign or something silly like that is just going to do more harm than good.

[SignOfZeta]

So I shouldn't have mailed him Michael Helgeson's head?

[elmer]

So I shouldn't have mailed him Michael Helgeson's head?

Unless he actually ever met Michael in person, Kevtris might just think that we're all crazy-enough here to "ISIS" some random SNES-fan that accidentally came by, in an attempt to win his favor! 

[spenoza]

Kevtris may actually want to know this before losing his shirt in a HuCARD-only system that isn't going to sell anywhere near as well as something that can play CDROM2 stuff.

I don't think he's doing a discrete system. I think he's doing a new core for the AnalogNT Mini. The idea is that you can just reprogram the FPGA at the heart of the system and transform it into a different machine. There's already several cores available. And I do think the HuCard library for the PCE is compelling enough to make that core worthwhile. Then if someone else wants to take that core and expand on it, they can talk to Kevtris and maybe a new project can emerge from that. But for now, he's just doing these for existing hardware.