PlaysWithWolves Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Yeh but those products hide the FPGA tech. In other words, they are "consumer ready"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Well yeh. "Average" consumer-ready things like STB, and automotive have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninja_gaiden2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Wow, that was quick! So that probably means that they've gone back to the previous BeagleBone Black design. It'll be interesting to see if they've ditched the expensive FPGA and just decided to focus on the Unity steam-games-on-a-cart collector crowd, or if they're still trying to be all-things-to-all-people. It's hard to believe that they'll go with Woita's desired FPGA system and just concentrate on targeting people like me ... at this point I suspect that most of us old-folks would rather just wait to see what Kevtris comes up with. Agreed. it looks like a steam-in-a-cart machine is in it's infancy, not the FGPA machine we desired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsdee Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 More relevant for us in Retroland, the XRGB-Mini Framemeister is an FPGA inside, the Retron5 has a tiny one to handle the multiple cart connections, and the Everdrive/SD2SNES are FPGAs inside. There's quite a bunch around 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StopDrop&Retro Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Agreed. it looks like a steam-in-a-cart machine is in it's infancy, not the FGPA machine we desired If that's what it takes to get the console back to $150, then they have a chance. The average consumer and their potential backers neither know nor care about FPGAs, it is not a selling point to them. It is a selling point to us but our group is more inclined to support Kevtris and would only use the RVGS' FPGA to compare and ridicule against Kevtris' console. Maybe it'll hurt the RVGS to take out the FPGA after it was teased in the first campaign, but even so a $150 console will sell much more than a second attempt at a $250-300 console that's lost all of its good will. More relevant for us in Retroland, the XRGB-Mini Framemeister is an FPGA inside, the Retron5 has a tiny one to handle the multiple cart connections, and the Everdrive/SD2SNES are FPGAs inside. There's quite a bunch around Wow. I never knew that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninja_gaiden2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 But can they buy back goodwill with promo codes for Retro magazine? (honestly, this thread is way more entertaining than anything they could hope to produce) ..... I put my name down to see what the free RETRO magazine looked like, because I genuinely hoped that it would hold interesting retro gaming content. Ironically enough page 2 of socal Mike's magazine features a full page OUYA advertisement 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 It may have been mentioned 100 pages or so back, but a finished open FPGA box called MiST already exists and is shipping: https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/wiki http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96 It already supports quite a few machines, with more cores being ported all the time: NES, Atari 800, 2600, 5200, ST, ColecoVision, SMS, PC Engine, Amiga, C64, Apple II, Genesis... Unless they get Kevtris on board, I'm holding out for a Zumba 3000. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Unless they get Kevtris on board, I'm holding out for a Zumba 3000. Is that the version of kevtris' hardware that only plays DDR clones? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AE35 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I think it is time for me to come clean. I am the new member on the Retro VGS team. As some of you may know, I have a background in ***tech, which primes me for replacing John Carlsen. I will be in charge of hardware development and I will also head the department that is poised to make sure that games are fault free. I have earlier worked on several projects, including work on a small thing. The new motto is: "YOU are going to buy it all day long" See you on KS! Nicholas 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsdee Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Unless they get Kevtris on board, I'm holding out for a Zumba 3000. Nothing stops Kevtris from compiling and releasing cores for it without giving out the source. I'm sure several people would pitch in to get him a board if he was willing to take that route. But I guess its more fun to design one own's box, and in any case its good to have diversity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaysWithWolves Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I think it is time for me to come clean. Go home, Nicholas! You're drunk! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Is that the version of kevtris' hardware that only plays DDR clones? Typo: Zimba/Zumba 3000/4000/5000 whatever... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AE35 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Go home, Nicholas! You're drunk! LOL, okay then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 As some of you may know, I have a background in ***tech, which primes me for replacing John Carlsen. I dot understand the censorship. Should that say "asstech"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
some_canuck Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Typo: Zimba/Zumba 3000/4000/5000 whatever... Zuffa? Zingo? Zombo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Zuffa? Zingo? Zombo? I like Core 3000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I like it too. Better than Zimba 3000 - that sounds like some sort of exercise equipment or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AE35 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I dot understand the censorship. Should that say "asstech"? Not at all I have a degree in biotech, the only way to shoehorn it into a electronics project was to remove 'bio'. Smokes and mirrors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AE35 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I like Core 3000. Core 3000 sounds awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Not at all I have a degree in biotech, the only way to shoehorn it into a electronics project was to remove 'bio'. Smokes and mirrors. Ah, but are you an "aggressive hands on engineering manager from Silicon Valley?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AE35 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Ah, but are you an "aggressive hands on engineering manager from Silicon Valley?" I meant "smoke and mirrors"...*embarassed smiley* Yes, as a matter of fact I am! Also, I just finished an iron man to show the corporate world that I mean BUSINESS!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdownita Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 (edited) Typo: Zimba/Zumba 3000/4000/5000 whatever... zuzzurullone 2016 seems more like it [and then the year changes as needed] Edited October 16, 2015 by phoenixdownita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StopDrop&Retro Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I hate the name Zimba 3000, it sounds like a race they would have if NASCAR went to Africa. He already has the best name for a console- The Kevtris 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leods Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 The Kevtris Zimba Field Programmable Gate Array 3000 Multi Videogame Simulating Machine TKZFPGA3000 for short. Still a better Name for a System than naming the third xbox console an xbox one. And Don't even get me started on the WiiU. Even Retro VGS and Zimba 3000 are not that bad if you just look at what These companies have been doing... Now "Kevtris" sounds totally rad. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
some_canuck Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I hate the name Zimba 3000, it sounds like a race they would have if NASCAR went to Africa. He already has the best name for a console- The Kevtris "kevtris" is kindof a misnomer though... can't really call a system that while having a game on said system with the same name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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