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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: Dennis on July 25, 2007, 04:40:26 AM
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The Minimig sources have been released.
You can find them at http://home.hetnet.nl/~weeren001 (http://home.hetnet.nl/~weeren001). For the time being this will be the official homepage of the Minimig. Take a look and have fun!
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Fantastic!!! Now hopefully the community will contribute to this project!
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Congratulations! A very nice looking website and very informative. Dennis is wicked good!
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many thanks !
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Woot! Thanks so much, Dennis - looks awesome! :-o
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Nice work Dennis!
Good to see a homebrew project come to fruition.
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Yahooooooo! Fantastic!!! :-)
Thanks Dennis!
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Brilliant!
Excellent stuff!
Thanks Dennis! :lotsacoffee:
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Best. News. Ever.
Releasing the Minimig sources under the GPL is probably the best thing anyone could've done for the Amiga community. Many thanks from the lot of us.
Soooo... who wants to build these babies and make a few bucks? I want one!
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A big thank you from me!
A fantastic achievement!
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I have a guy in China who fabricates my PCBs for me so I can do a run of boards if there's enough interest.
I'll need to know what the general consensus is on PCB layout though. Does everyone want it as-is or in a slightly diffrent configuration (port locations etc). I'll need to translate the gerber into Eagle anyway so before I start I'll see what you guys think.
I can solder the parts here or the user can do that if they want, there will be a significant price difference obviously. The only thing I can't do is program the chips etc, though from what I have read, it seems the FPGA is programmed from flash, correct?
Just so we're clear, I'll only be charging for fabrication costs, labour and parts. Minimig is free so I'll not be looking to make a profit.
Let me know folks.
Joel
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Xenepp, I'd be interested to know the likely cost of an assembled Minimig in £ (or $ or €).
As to layout... well if the ports weren't soldered with sockets but pins with supplied standard PC leads (like 10 pin lead for mouse etc) then we could route the ports to wherever we wanted. I'd prefer mine at the back of a case.
And let me be the FIRST of MANY to ask (no, not for AGA) but.. "could the 68000 be replaced with a 14 or 28mhz 68000 or something like an 020??"
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Pin headers are good idea, like you say it'd allow flexability in placment if casing it up. Anyone else feel this way?
Regarding the CPU, I'd suggest not "upgrading" it. There are subtle diffrences with the 8mhz and 14mhz CPUs and would probably require alteration in FPGA program. You can try it but I'd say there'd be a great deal of unexpected results. It may not even boot. This is from what I have read anyway.
I can't really give a fixed price until I have sent the layout to my guy, but I'd expect a preassembled board to cost about £40 and the kit (PCB + parts to solder yourself) about £20.
Joel
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Xenepp,
I would like one. Probally fully assembled. Can you give an estimate on the cost of this?
Shawn
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Xenepp, at that price count me in.
Here's another idea...
At the same time as making the connectors mobile (ribbon attached), if you could change the shape of the board (from 120mm square) to say 88mm by 165mm (or a bit longer) then it would have the same sort of area but be able to be squeezed into anywhere a 3.5in HD could go. All those pretty external USB drive cases could be refitted as Minimigs. There is just about enough space to fit two 9-pin joystick ports, a DB15 VGA port, 2 PS2 connectors and a 5v in socket on a re-worked back panel.
Just an idea ;)
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Xenepp: I want one, too. Do you have a (very) rough estimate on the price?
Edit: nevermind, saw your reply now. Count me in.
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Xenepp (http://www.amiga.org/userinfo.php?uid=15646) wrote:
I can't really give a fixed price until I have sent the layout to my guy, but I'd expect a preassembled board to cost about £40 and the kit (PCB + parts to solder yourself) about £20.
Count me in for pre-assembled board! If the deal is a goer, then PM with paypal or such details :-)
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The estimate is very rough, once I've got the design over to my guy we'll have a much better idea.
Once I know how the majority it voting regarding design I'll get to work.
Joel
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Well if U want to know what people think then list some options somewhere (forums?) and ask for people to give straightforward Yes/No answers.
eg
Do you want fixed connectors (yes/no)
Do you want ribbon connectors (yes/no)
Do you want re-sized board (yes/no)
Do you want a blue PCB (yes/no)
just examples.. personally a purple PCB!! hehehe
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Count me in for a pre-assembled board, no matter the price.
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Good idea, I'll start a new thread I guess so it doesn't bog this one down.
Joel
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I've got a psp screen from a dead (landed in a glass of milk) psp. I'm sure I can find a suitable keyboard so perhaps I might go for a minimig/screen +KB etc. and put the whole thing into a nice case styled to look like a copy of the Necronomicon. Why? just for fun I guess.
...and WELL DONE DENNIS, you deserve the praise.
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Any more questions regarding the PCB fabrication should go here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30516
Joel
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Congratulations. Creating this is an amazing achievement! :):):)
I do wonder though... maybe GPL wasn't the best way to license it. If companies were allowed to make profit from it, then they would be mass produced and we could buy them cheaper? Just a thought.
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@beakster2
maybe GPL wasn't the best way to license it. If companies were allowed to make profit from it, then they would be mass produced and we could buy them cheaper?
And what exactly in GPL prohibits making profit?
Wikipedia: GPL - common misconceptions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl#Common_misconceptions)
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Great work !
Thanks Dennis!
:-)
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Amiga, only Dennis makes it possible !!!
:-o
:banana: :banana: :banana: :bow: :bow:
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This is só... so... w00t! :-)
/me wants one!
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Whatever the price is, I want one pre assembled !! Will pay cash.
vteyssier@wanadoo.fr
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Well, if you have some extra cash, these two bounties could use some to spur on a developer to free us all from The Name.
ROM Phase I (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=23)
ROM Phase II (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=24)
Dammy
TeamAROS (http://www.teamaros.org)
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Thank you so much Dennis!!!!
:bow:
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@Piru
Just wait until someone request MorphOS source code be released under GPL. Maybe you will give a different answer? ;-)
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@Darth_X
Just wait until someone request MorphOS source code be released under GPL.
Ambient is GPL with exception for non-GPL linking (workbench/icon/wbstart libraries).
Some fonts are GPL, with font embedding exception.
Maybe you will give a different answer? ;-)
No, not really. :-)
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I have created a Minimig wiki:
http://www.opencircuits.com/Minimig_Project
My hope is that it will help people to accumulate knowledge in this matter such that one doesn't have to read long.. threads to find information.
Especially now that there are several.
No login required, works almost like wikipedia.
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I go on holiday for one week and its the week that this all comes true! AWESOME! :-D
Well done Dennis!
Andy
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We have a small run of original (Minimig ver. 1.0) bare PCBs.
The only change is the silk screen just to identify the source for quality control.
I stress that these are suitable only for the serious electronics dudes, experimenters and people interested in 1st wave prototypes. They will involve smd work and so are not for the faint hearted!
We are expecting them in next week. As soon as they arrive we will post a link to a paypal shopping cart.
Pricing will be;
£11 - Shipped U.K.
£13 - Shipped Europe (Airmail)
£15 - Shipped USA (Airmail)
We will also try to source the original ST memory and make those available as well.
Any profit will be donated to the TeamAros Kickstart II (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=24) bounty! :-)
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The only change is the silk screen just to identify the source for quality control.
Fixing the bug on the board probably would have been a good idea.
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This is definitely awesome news and a shot to the arm the community could really use.
Thanks Dennis.
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then it would have the same sort of area but be able to be squeezed into anywhere a 3.5in HD could go
I'll second that. :-)
And put me up for an order when it's time to go.
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I need one that is Amiga compatible.
That means a PAR: for connecting my 4 player adapter. And software switchable NTSC/PAL like a real Amiga. And it needs a hard drive so I can run Deluxe Paint 5.