How cheap are fgpas that could simulate an SNES or similar?
Any chance we standardize and commoditize fpgas so that it can be just another device on a laptop or phone that anyone could use? Like bluetooth or a GPU or gps?
This has to happen at some point but how far off from that are we now?
I assume there are different grades of fpgas and that likely complicates things but it is like desktop GPUs are way way better than phone GPUs... But both run opengl/vulkan and essentially the same code.
I know of FPGA based implementation of whole Amigas [1] and I do not htink they are particularly expensive. It is very likely that SNES reimplementations also exist already.
Edit: this [2] is a full system for 220 euros and in addition to Amiga it emulates a bunch of 8 bit consoles.
Any chance we standardize and commoditize fpgas so that it can be just another device on a laptop or phone that anyone could use? Like bluetooth or a GPU or gps?
This has to happen at some point but how far off from that are we now?
I assume there are different grades of fpgas and that likely complicates things but it is like desktop GPUs are way way better than phone GPUs... But both run opengl/vulkan and essentially the same code.