Minimig update: scanline emulation

[Darrin]

@ Boing4000.

Great work.  It's great to see several people working on the Minimig core.  I hope that when the ARM is released properly that this code in incorporated into that core too.

[Darrin]

kolla wrote:
Did the dual-floppy drive core release yet?

Only on the ARM expansion so far (quad-floppy support).

[Darrin]

boing4000 wrote:
Thx Darrin, Minimig will always be interesting to me! As long as the fpga has some space left, all functions can be reimported.
Scanline emulation dont take much space, so I belief it may still fit into the next core release :-)

I can try to make an A4000 keyboard work on Minimig, but this will be a fixed state without auto sensing or switching between ps/2 or amiga key code. Perhaps in time it could be switchable... somehow

Using an A4000 keyboard would be nice, but my A4000 came off eBay with no keyboard so I've always used a PC PS2 one with it.  I do have an A2000 and A3000 keyboard though.  :-)

[Darrin]

kolla wrote:

So the ARM expansion is available? :-)

It's close.  There's just a few beta boards out at the moment, but it certainly works.  It's plug & play too - just copy all the files to the SD card, remove the PIC with a screwdriver, pop in the ARM and switch on.  "Core updates" are now replacing a file on the SD card rather than buggering around with a serial cable.

For those with a soldering iron, you can short out 2 contacts to increase the speed of the hard file access.