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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: TheDaddy on July 17, 2008, 01:17:55 AM
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Hi everyone,
I have uploaded a video of the soon to be released enclosure for the minimig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yNsIaeQ4rQ
Thank you,
Loriano :-)
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Wow, nice advert and the case is sweet!
I've not been following your product development, only seen a few comments here and there. I'm really surprised and pleased by the professionalism of the finished product. Having only read a couple of comments here and there, I'd just imagined it would be a bog-standard metal case of some type.
Congratulations, it's a work of art.
Regards
Rich
PS - the advert says "available" - from where? And how much?
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I don't see why you had to wait until now to show something other than a closeup.
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How do I order one of these in Amiga Yellow?
More Seriously, very nice work. I like the way the logo appears. What color will the logo be on the finished product, because I thought that I saw one with a red logo and one with a gray logo?
Regards,
DiscoEd
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That's really impressive. If I had a minimig, I would want one of these cases.
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>>How do I order one of these in Amiga Yellow?
LOL! Hopefully this one should not yellow at all.
>>More Seriously, very nice work. I like the way the logo appears. What color will the logo be on the finished product, because I thought that I saw one with a red logo and one with a gray logo?
The colour of the logo/name is up to the buyer, it can be ordered in silver or red like int he video or in green, orange, yellow, pink, black, grey, brown, blue or green.
More photos on my site:
www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Thank you.
:-)
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>>That's really impressive. If I had a minimig, I would want one of these cases.
Thanks I hope you do get one, they are so much fun, when I take it around friends' houses they don't believe it's an Amiga until I show them State of the Art demo or Lotus Turbo Challenge 2...you should see their faces! :-)
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Hi,
>>I don't see why you had to wait until now to show something other than a closeup.
Until last week the only things I could show were those close ups as it was still being worked on, some of the ports position had to be altered but it's here now :-)
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A very good job Loriano! congratulations :-)
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Simply BEAUTIFUL !!! Awesome!!!! Masterpiece :)
:-o
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That is such a nice case!
If the NatAmi is released do you think you would creat one for that too?
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Fantastic case! Does anyone know of a US dealer that sells the minimig?
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@AmiBoy
Thanks for your comments.
I have tried to make it as professional as possible but also special, to start with there will only be 50 pieces made, maybe more if I get more orders.
Regarding the Natami; I have contacted the Natami team and they are interested, I have the sketches ready but it will depend on the sale of the Minimig enclosure.
I am having a lot of requests/interest for the A1200 replacement case which should take less time to create too.
Thank you,
:-)
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>>Fantastic case! Does anyone know of a US dealer that sells the minimig?
Thanks JC!
I am not sure who sells Minimig boards in the US, I know that Amigakit.com have some in stock, other than that I know of ACube (where I got mine from) and Vesalia.de
Thank you,
:-)
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@JC
AmigaKit does. Check out their U.S. store.
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Very impressive, TheTeaser..uhm..I mean TheDaddy :lol: You did just what the Minimig is all about:"Never give up, never surrender!" :-D
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We have Minimig in stock.
Very impressive work on the case- congratulations!
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Very nice design :-)
I like the simplicity of it. It looks very professional. I wish the case for my AmigaOne was this nice instead of my borring PC case.
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>>Very impressive, TheTeaser..uhm..I mean TheDaddy
ARGH! :laughing:
>>You did just what the Minimig is all about :"Never give up, never surrender!"
I have been talking to Dennis recently, he is pleased too, he made me realise that Minimig and this enclosure make the first completely custom Amiga in 15 years, so I added it to the video. :-)
Talking about the video, I had a hard time, freaking Windows kept freezing, it took me all day! :-)
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@amigakit
>>We have Minimig in stock.
I knew it, excellent!
>>Very impressive work on the case- congratulations!
Thank you. I hope I can sell the whole 50 pieces, recover my six months development costs and move onto something new and even more exciting.
:-)
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@Controller
>>I like the simplicity of it. It looks very professional.
Thank you. I wanted something clean and modern, on the lines of the mac mini but even more stylised but with a bit of character. Hopefully I got it right. :-)
Thank you,
:-)
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Actually, this case makes me want a minimig! :-D
Btw. since you are open for designing custome cases, there are always "caseless" systems around that one can design cases for, there is definetly a market for custom cases.
For example, I have a gumstick LCD pack http://www.gumstix.com/images/LCDPAck-assembly.jpg that is sold just like that without case, my plan is to build a micro-laptop, just need to find a suitable USB micro-keyboard and a good casing :lol:
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Is it just me or shouldn't this become a more serious product? If its so easy (Not to diminish the efforts made.) To do an FPGA of the old chip sets why not do an AGA chipset with a 68060 core cpu and ppc 603e built in? Then presto you have a base system that should be a couple hundred bucks and could in theory run OS4 have various cardslot types etc..
Personally I know, all amiga / hyperion wants is royalties.. So if you build it, sell it, pay them your good to go..
Am I wrong guys?
If a motherboard like what I described was available and worked for say 250 per bare board. Plus lets be sick and say 200 in royalties..
Plus 40% Margin.
So 650 ish for a mother board with basic cpu & os seat..
Would we buy it?
Personally next time I feel I have a few bucks to really spare I think Ill get a refurb a1200 and minimig from amigakit.. Just so I have one before its all really gone..
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Nicce! I love SMALL computers!
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Check out www.natami.net. They're supposed to get their assembled pre production board any day now.