I would vote for audio chips too. But only if this new machine solved the audio noise problems of OCM and Zemmix Neo 
otherwise it makes much less sense. Actually, the price of it is quite high, and noisy audio will for sure withdraw my interest (otherwise i would like to have one, later, having low budget at the moment unfortunately)
I would vote for audio chips too. But only if this new machine solved the audio noise problems of OCM and Zemmix Neo otherwise it makes much less sense. Actually, the price of it is quite high, and noisy audio will for sure withdraw my interest (otherwise i would like to have one, later, having low budget at the moment unfortunately)
Victor wrote to me of having changed several things: no resistor arrays were used for the audio signals but the Xilinx delta-sigma approach. Several hardware issues have been fixed.
if that delta-sigma is the same as used in MFR (which also uses Xilinx, but i'm not aware of the details, just a guess) - that should be a great sound then! if so, i'm interested of course 
damn, should raise some money... think, think...
Any ideas of what to do with the extra space in the FPGA of this machine?
More than ideas, some volunteers would be needed to make the missing components! 
if that delta-sigma is the same as used in MFR (which also uses Xilinx, but i'm not aware of the details, just a guess) - that should be a great sound then! if so, i'm interested of course damn, should raise some money... think, think...
Until we have a chance to test this pcb, we can't know exactly.
if that delta-sigma is the same as used in MFR (which also uses Xilinx, but i'm not aware of the details, just a guess) - that should be a great sound then! if so, i'm interested of course damn, should raise some money... think, think...
I can't think of anything sounding better than HDMI, digitally generated audio being carried over a digital connection.... Can it get any better? 
Any ideas of what to do with the extra space in the FPGA of this machine?
More than ideas, some volunteers would be needed to make the missing components!
That's for sure... I've developed the I/O based Uart that connects the ESP-01 to the MSX bus based on some suggestions and with some help from Victor, which later has resulted in the UNAPI ram driver for it (still in the finishing touches, I've got the hang on creating a custom firmware for the ESP module and perhaps I'll resort to implementing most of UNAPI functionality running on the ESP8266 processor, this has boosted TFTP transfer speed using Konamiman tftp from 7-8KB/s to 13-14KB/s, so I've been spending most of my free time on developing the ESP8266 Unapi firmware as it seems to make more sense than using ESP8266 AT Firmware that requires quite a few processing time from z80 to implement protocol and adapt stuff). The FPGA code is available so anyone can toy around and for sure good stuff will be merged back.
I think it will be a masterpiece! 