Amiga in an FPGA : Minimig

[InTheSand]

Dennis wrote:
I was wondering if there would be interest in the community for this kind of machine?

Is the Pope Catholic?
Do bears sh*t in the woods?

Of course there will be interest!  :-D  Put me down as another interested person!  :-)

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

TH0072 wrote:
...here is a nice little card for $199:
http://www.xess.com/prod035.php3
No 68k CPU but....it's a million gates to play with.

Neat! Nice that it has integrated VGA and keyboard/mouse... And that seems like a reasonable price too.

If only I had the knowledge to create something good with it!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Would be nice!

I still can't understand why the Amiga One wasn't based on a standard EPIA mini-ITX board... Would have made so much more sense than the proprietary, expensive and now non-existant PPC-based "solution" that was chosen instead...

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Lando wrote:

InTheSand wrote:
Would be nice!

I still can't understand why the Amiga One wasn't based on a standard EPIA mini-ITX board... Would have made so much more sense than the proprietary, expensive and now non-existant PPC-based "solution" that was chosen instead...

 - Ali

Primarily I suppose because then people could just go out and buy their boards wherever they wanted, rather that being forced to buy only from Licensees, and so Amiga Inc would lose the License fees they got on every board sold.

Perhaps Amiga Inc could have made a security dongle of some sort and restricted OS4 sales to be bundled with the mini-ITX hardware only?

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

At the risk of igniting the flames further: both the vacuum cleaner and its OS would then both suck!  :-o

Actually, like 99% of the remaining Amiga users, I've never used OS4, just couldn't resist the opportunity for a crap joke!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Oliver wrote:
However, for a joystick Amiga, it's just for games, so wouldn't the incompatibility issues with an '060 be a bad bet?

Agreed... Wouldn't an '030 be better?

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Ouch! Even the '030s are expensive!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Plus4 wrote:
I was away a few days and missed 10000000 posts....

And at 36296 views (currently), it's got to be the most popular one on A.org...

At least the forum software didn't crap out when the view counter got past 32767!!!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Colin_Camper wrote:
The minimig would have no bearing on these type of projects.

But it'd still be cool to have the Minimig hardware emulate an ST as well as an Amiga - nice to have both!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

humppa wrote:
Something similar to this (MSX on a chip) would be cool.  :-D

Very cool!

Was almost tempted to pre-order one of those, but I'd rather have a Minimig!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

@Dennis: well done! Fantastic that you've been able to do this!

I hope an end product will surface that some of us can buy (with proceeds going to your good self of course).

 - Ali