The Apple Lisa Inside an FPGA!

Some bad news.

JLC finished manufacturing the v3 boards on the 18th as expected, but it's been several days and they still haven't shipped. Normally they ship the day after manufacturing is done, but not this time, presumably because of the large size of the order. It's so late at this point that there's no way they'll be here in time for VCF. So if you were coming in the hopes of getting your hands on a board, then I'm sorry! They'll still be for sale online afterwards though.

Regardless, I'll absolutely have the two v2 boards set up at VCF for anyone to play with, so at least there's that, plus my presentation on the entire project.
 
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i saw a few of these boards while i was at VCF SW and i gotta say i am very impressed with your work. hopefully in the future we can have something like an FPGA SE/30 especially considering a lot of the original hardware is dying on those. (ask me how i know)
 
I see these have popped up over at JCM for $300?
Shown as 'out of stock'.
Just curious if that is the AlexTheCat price or the Joe's Computer Museum price?
I have to say that I'm still in either way, but I'm wondering if the 68KMLA imaginary pricing at $150 is closer to the pin than the reality pricing of $300 at JCM?

LisaFPGA – Joe's Computer Museum

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See below for prior discussion of updated pricing. FWIW, $300 does not at all surprise me, between tariffs (yep they're still a problem), component shortages, and an expensive 6 layer board. Been there, done that :)

terrier said:
OP updated the thread over on lisalist2 yesterday - he's hoping to have 50 boards at VCF Southwest for ~$300/each
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JLC just finished manufacturing the boards, so they should be shipped out pretty soon. Hopefully they'll be here by VCF; it's going to be really close!

I just added a neat feature that very few people will probably ever have a use for, but it comes in handy for me sometimes with LOS experimentation, as well as with Xenix's hard drive size limits. If you connect one of the pins on the GPIO header to 3.3V, then the FPGA will intercept any reads to address FCC030 and always return 88 instead of A8, making software think that it's running on a 2/10 instead of a 2/5. Pretty neat, right?

Quote from: bmwcyclist on May 12, 2026, 12:55:58 PMDid I miss where the price was posted?

Sorry, I completely forgot to respond to you! It's looking like about $300. I really wanted it to be cheaper, but the prices of chips have gone up quite significantly since my last order. Take the FPGA for instance. When I placed my first order back in November, it was $20 apiece, but now it's like $50. And many of the other chips have increased by similar proportions too. It sucks!
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Yeah, I promise it's not me trying to be greedy or anything! I genuinely could've achieved something around that $150 price a few months ago, but with increasing chip prices, it's just not possible anymore. I didn't realize how much things had gone up at the time when I made that $150 projection, but that's unfortunately just the way it is now.
 
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