MiniMig with AGA

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it's not impossible, but difficult. but I believe it will be done eventually. there's already a project called NatAmi which progresses very slow (some also regard as vaporware).

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bloodline wrote:

AGA is poorly documented... Bug fixing would be a pain... But I expect there is probably still enough room left on the FPGA (AGA was a very limited upgrade from ECS)... I don't know how much is used right now?

it really depends on the FPGA you're talking. what I know is minimig + 68k core takes about %70 of the resources of the Altera DE1 board, which is an entry level board. Higher/Newer models have an order of magnitude more space. AGA will definitely fit there. 68020, I dunno, but it should as well.

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Palm wrote:

We´ve seen that quick, dirty and cheap solutions work well. Like the C64DTV. Not quite perfect, but cheap and available.

I don't think a quick dirty cheap solution will suffice for a AGA + 68020 machine. somebody needs to sit and think about it for a long time, it's not c64.

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Yep I guess if they sold them unpopulated it could work but I was thinking about the new price of 060's vs the new price of 030's.

what do you mean by 'new' ? I doubt any of the 68k line is being produced anymore ... So it'll have to be second hand no matter what ... :hammer:

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Does the tray fit in the Amiga CPU slot or connect to the A1200 trapdoor expansion?

:lol: you're kidding right :afro:

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030 is just a 020 with cache and on chip MMU (or no MMU in the case of EC variants).

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@kolla - No, the original purpose of the minimig was an A4000 clone, but Dennis had to start somewhere.

you're making this up. MiniMig was intended to be a A500 clone, nothing more, nothing less.

http://www.techtravels.org/amiga/minimig/weeren001/minimig.html

@MskoDestny - ...and at 220MHz I seriously doubt those traps would slow it down enough to even notice. The remainder of the coldfire's core is still 68K instruction compatable. The benefit I see is being able to select the CPU you want to emulate for maximum compatability and performance. Hell, make it a menu in the boot ROM. Before you load the library, select the CPU for this session.

Coldfire route had been taken before, and it ended in disaster. Not much sense in discovering the wheel again. But of course you're free to make your own coldfire based board and put the world to shame :afro:

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usb to ps/2 converters can be found for almost nothing everywhere ...