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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: jensl on November 16, 2008, 06:52:01 PM

Title: NES Famicom on the Minimig
Post by: jensl on November 16, 2008, 06:52:01 PM

A big hello to all Minimig owners.

I will point you to a  very nice person (friend) named Mr.KI from Japan.
He has made in his spare time a NES/Famicom core for the Minimig and is also doing some other interesting things.:)

You can read it here on his webpage:

http://www.geocities.jp/team_zero_three/FC/index_e.html#fc_on_minimig

Have fun.

I hope we will see more hobby projects from other talented persons in the future.:)

I have to work harder on myself to learn Verilog.:))


 

Title: Re: NES Famicon on the Minimig
Post by: tonyyeb on November 16, 2008, 07:28:06 PM

Cool! Nice little hack.

Title: Re: NES Famicon on the Minimig
Post by: Fransexy_ on November 16, 2008, 07:31:52 PM

I would love to see a MSX core with support for a MSX Game Reader (http://www.msx.org/MSX-Game-Reader.articlepage46.html)

Title: Re: NES Famicon on the Minimig
Post by: jensl on November 16, 2008, 07:50:25 PM

A core already exist, but somebody must port it to the Minimig. Maybe we should ask Mr.HRA!

http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~hra/note/onechipmsx/index.htm

Jens

Title: Re: NES Famicon on the Minimig
Post by: Dwyloc on November 16, 2008, 07:59:09 PM

@jensl

Thanks for the link, very cool project.

Title: Re: NES Famicom on the Minimig
Post by: boing4000 on November 17, 2008, 11:39:29 AM

Hi Jens,

could you please tell me where to download your NES core for the Minimig board? I dont read chinese well enough ;-)

Thanks for the great work
Sascha

Title: Re: NES Famicom on the Minimig
Post by: jensl on November 17, 2008, 12:07:25 PM

Hi Sascha,

at the moment it is a work in process.

He has all done self, so we have to wait if he has finished his project(s). I am sure that he will make the core public if the core is more perfect on the Minimig.

MfG
Jens

Title: Re: NES Famicom on the Minimig
Post by: boing4000 on November 17, 2008, 01:01:32 PM

Hi Jens,

no problem, then I will look forward to the release and then enjoy an native NES on Minimig :-)
PS: Are you (speaking) german?

MfG
Sascha

Title: Re: NES Famicom on the Minimig
Post by: FrenchShark on November 18, 2008, 02:02:58 AM

Hi Jens,

now I have to hurry up finishing the 1943 game porting on Minimig. I can feel the pressure :-)
I have started the porting already but I have been quite busy at work and fixing the house...
Xmas vacations will be a good moment to finish the porting.

I think we need to come up with a bootmenu feature on the Minimig that will allow us to select the FPGA image we want to start.

Regards,

Frederic

Title: Re: NES Famicom on the Minimig
Post by: boing4000 on November 19, 2008, 05:10:09 PM

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now I have to hurry up finishing the 1943 game porting on Minimig. I can feel the pressure :-)
I have started the porting already but I have been quite busy at work and fixing the house...
Xmas vacations will be a good moment to finish the porting.

Also sounds very interesting :-) Take your time and have fun while porting!

PS: I do have the Spartan3-StarterKit pacman source code on HDD... But until now I was not able to adapt the source to minimigs board layout. Perhaps it is more easy then I think...?

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I think we need to come up with a bootmenu feature on the Minimig that will allow us to select the FPGA image we want to start.

That would be an excellent feature !! :-) Should be possible something like that:
Standard bootup: Minimig1.bin (A500 Chipset - Minimig should basicly stay an Amiga)
Selectable corefile in OSD, reset FPGA and upload new core. OSD could stay the same. The loadeable images could also be named *.adf.
Perhaps general in some (selectable) subfolders that would make more files accessable on sd card. Root directory only handle some 200-300 files.