+remowilliams Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Since a few people have asked me about it, I figured I'd start a separate thread. That is a minimig, (sitting on top of a Jaguar ) It is a modern FPGA based recreation of the hardware (custom chipset and otherwise) that would be common to an Amiga 500 type platform. This particular minimig also has the ARM expander board installed, which you can see in the picture. This minimig as configured provides some very neat things... - configuration through onscreen softmenu - PS2 mouse and keyboard interfaces - two DB9 joystick ports, one DB9 serial port - OSD selectable 15/31Khz RBG output (yes that means it can connect to a standard VGA capable monitor) and stereo sound - 2MB of RAM that is OSD selectable between chipmem and fastmem - compatibility up to Kickstart 3.1, Kickstarts selected through the OSD and stored on SD card. Action Replay 3 support is also available. - hard drive support through HDF file(s) located on the SD card - up to four virtual floppies (which can be set to 2x speed) that run from ADF images, also on the SD card and OSD selectable - very high compatibility with OCS/ECS support, OSD PAL/NTSC selectable - MC68SEC000 68K - normal (7Mhz) / Turbo (28Mhz) modes OSD selectable. In turbo mode the blitter is also accelerated In short, it is a very very cool 5 inch square little beast that allows you to experience tons of classic Amiga software in style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 May I ask the cost for a complete setup such as the one there? Does it come in that plexi case or do you just get the pare PCB? Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Wow, very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Rogue Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 May I ask the cost for a complete setup such as the one there? Does it come in that plexi case or do you just get the pare PCB? Stephen Anderson http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 or http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=minimig It's a lot of $ imo, but probably worth it to the hardcore miggy lover. I'm sure I would drop that much cash if there were an Atari 8bit bersion:roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 While I wouldn't say the minimig is cheap it is a fair price for what you get. Especially considering that if you had an Amiga 500 already and wanted to purchase just a scandoubler alone (so you could hook it to modern VGA displays) - that would probably run you in the $150-$250 price range. Then add up the price of an accelerator board, a few floppy drives, hard drive and interface, RAM expansion, etc... You get the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 It definitely is worth the price. Won't be getting one anytime soon though. I have had an ST for 2 years now and still haven't used it, even though I recently got an UltraSatan 2. Lack of desk space and time. Stephen Anderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 Lack of desk space and time. That's one of the great things with the minimig, being so small it doesn't need to fight for its desk space. I saw one minimig user that actually mounted his to the back of an LCD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 (edited) Any chance of an a1200/a3000 version, or is that in the pipeline Or can the existing hardware be upp'd to a1200/a3000 compatibility Looks good though Edited December 4, 2009 by carmel_andrews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feralstorm Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Any chance of an a1200/a3000 version, or is that in the pipeline Or can the existing hardware be upp'd to a1200/a3000 compatibility Looks good though I think there are some working on an AGA-chipset-based (Amiga 1200/4000/CD32) system like the Minimig, though I don't know if the current Minimig FPGA hardware can be used for it. There is also the Natami project, which has a goal of making an updated-yet-compatible system (updating the original hardware line, as opposed to the PPC-based machines like those that run Amiga OS4 or MorphOS.) http://www.natami.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I should really get one.... Need $$$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icbrkr Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Also, if you have a C-One, an updated Minimig core was released recently to take advantage of hard drive files on your CF card. I downloaded the latest core, but I haven't gotten it up and running yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubelindo Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 The ARM expander board is really needed? You have no HD without it? It's really cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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