Re: Cinelabs CCPU on an FPGA Demo at CAX2012 This Weekend

Tom,

Yes, that's the plan. This board is a prototype and prototypes are
generally not meant for production, which is the basis for the comment you
read. They are intended to prove the design works, and/or make it easy to
identify and correct problems with the design. This prototype has obviously
proved the design works having run through now two full weekends at CAX on
different games, provided a lot of other useful information and was the
basis for the next rev board, which is intended for production. As for the
next obvious question, timing, you have to remember this is an "as time
allows" project, and will be completed as time allows. Generally I put free
time into projects, so you don't see a lot of updates, but people are free
to inquire, and they do.

HTH

Thanks,
-Mark

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Tom Cloud <robot_tank@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mark, thx for the reply. Will these be produced someday? I read a
> comment on KLOV to the effect that these boards are not meant for
> production...?
> Just curious... I did see the AA there in attract mode with the FPGA
> humming away. Pretty cool.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Cinelabs Info <cinelabs.info@gmail.com>
> *To:* vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> *Cc:* robot_tank@yahoo.com
> *Sent:* Friday, July 27, 2012 11:40 AM
> *Subject:* Re: VECTOR: Cinelabs CCPU on an FPGA Demo at CAX2012 This
> Weekend
>
> Tom,
>
> I figured not everyone might have seen it last year, as there was no
> annoucement, not even a small one like this. For that matter, not
> everyone may even be aware that the working FPGA board was demoed last
> year.
>
> The pre-production proto wasn't ready in time for the show, so yes,
> this will be the same board, reconfigured to run AA.
>
> -Mark
>
> On 7/26/12, Tom Cloud <robot_tank@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'll be there on Saturday. Mark, is this the same board you were demoing
> > last year in the Tailgunner 2 cockpit?
> >
> > I'll be wearing a Donkey Kong inspired shirt with Aliens movie sprites on
> > it.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Cinelabs Info <cinelabs.info@gmail.com>
> > To: vectorlist <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 6:18 AM
> > Subject: VECTOR: Cinelabs CCPU on an FPGA Demo at CAX2012 This Weekend
> >
> > All,
> >
> > If you are going to visit California Extreme this weekend
> > (7/28-29/2012), I plan to demo the FPGA based CCPU board. Murphy and
> > the backage handlers willing, it will be driving an AA cabinet.
> >
> > If you have any questions, I'll be wearing a red sparkfun t-shirt on
> > Saturday.
> >
> > Hope to see you there!
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> > P.S. How many other (list members) are planning to be there?
> >
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