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Yesterday I got home from work and found 2 parcels waiting for me...
And
Not had time to test them yet but big thanks to supaduper for the FMV module. And Yes its been recapped already.

Now to remake your new riser to fit a FMV module at the same time as the TF360 ;)

theq wrote: 08 Jan 2020 16:48 Now to remake your new riser to fit a FMV module at the same time as the TF360 ;)

Yes the thought had crossed my mind

Nice!!! Those are rare!!!

terriblefire wrote: 08 Jan 2020 17:44

theq wrote: 08 Jan 2020 16:48 Now to remake your new riser to fit a FMV module at the same time as the TF360 ;)

Yes the thought had crossed my mind

I'd buy a board from you if you'd make a batch :)

I was looking at the circuit diagram for that FMV badger and racking my brains, could the FMV part be dumped and the STV8438CV be used as a 24bit display?
If you skip to about 13 mins into this vid, the FMV video is underlayed/genlocked under the CD32`s workbench



Presumably, possible that a 24bit background with the Amigas entire playfields/sprite capability over the top

My limited knowledge of hardware design could only come up with 2 banks of 1MB SRAM switched or not during the vertical blank but I would imagine impossible to implement.
the Amiga would see it as a 1MB chunk of RAM but it would be a framebuffer of sorts, 1 displayed while the other could be refreshed.

Please feel VERY free to ignore my ramblings, just needed to air a bit :oops:

Currently enjoying the most powerful Amiga I have ever owned in a french CD32 with TF330 that arrived couple days ago,
Thank you all involved in designing, testing and building (MrFire and MrGoose)

That chip looks ok but every time i come to think about this i go through the following thought process..

1. What chip could do the same job as the FMV?

2. Hmmm nothing exactly does it ... maybe there is an ARM chip that could do it?

3. No STM32 type chip can do decent video out but actually a rasperry pi could and it could sample the amiga via the camera port... .

4. Hmmm.. how about just put a SODIMM slot on there and let a PiCompute to ALL the work.. and its really cheap.

Thank you for the response, shows the wisdom you have and I am lacking :oops:
With the Idea I was trying to avoid messing around with modern display technology and having something that `might` have been
possible with 1994 tech and using what CBM gave us.
Your method just makes absolute sense and saves the headache and money spent via mine!
While on the sort of subject, could the 060 do better with your video experiments if it had a display of its own rather than the via
the Amiga chipset?

juz400 wrote: 09 Jan 2020 20:39 While on the sort of subject, could the 060 do better with your video experiments if it had a display of its own rather than the via
the Amiga chipset?

I suspect a power amiga user with some actual knowledge of the OS could get more out of the board than i have.

3. No STM32 type chip can do decent video out but actually a rasperry pi could and it could sample the amiga via the camera port... .

4. Hmmm.. how about just put a SODIMM slot on there and let a PiCompute to ALL the work.. and its really cheap.

https://github.com/niklasekstrom/a314 this can overlay video to amiga with RaspPi