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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: Amigamia on November 19, 2012, 02:55:20 PM

Title: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: Amigamia on November 19, 2012, 02:55:20 PM
Is it is possible to load the minimig core in the C64 DTV? If yes, has anyone tried? Just curious
Title: Re: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: Hattig on November 19, 2012, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: Amigamia;715699
Is it is possible to load the minimig core in the C64 DTV? If yes, has anyone tried? Just curious


The joystick? No, that doesn't use an FPGA IIRC, it's an ASIC implementing a variant of the C64 core developed by Jeri for the C-One.
Title: Re: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: CritAnime on November 19, 2012, 03:20:30 PM
Yeah it's a SoC so there is no way of altering it for use in this way.  Even if you could flash the eeprom the SoC only runs at 32mhz so I doubt it would be up to the job of handling everything.

That's not to say these are useless. With some soldering skills you can put an sd card in it and run c64 games off it.
Title: Re: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: psxphill on November 19, 2012, 05:09:12 PM
Quote from: Hattig;715700
The joystick? No, that doesn't use an FPGA IIRC, it's an ASIC implementing a variant of the C64 core developed by Jeri for the C-One.

Yeah, it's an ASIC. It's impossible to reconfigure it. They wouldn't have been able to do an fpga design that cheap.
Title: Re: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: Amigamia on November 19, 2012, 06:13:22 PM
Quote from: psxphill;715716
Yeah, it's an ASIC. It's impossible to reconfigure it. They wouldn't have been able to do an fpga design that cheap.


I see! Thank you all for your replies.
Title: Re: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: RobertB on November 19, 2012, 06:33:24 PM
Quote from: CritAnime;715703
...only runs at 32mhz...
25 MHz.
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With some soldering skills you can put an sd card in it...
And a keyboard and a disk drive serial port and even a mini-display.
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...and run c64 games off it.
And programs like GEOS.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Grou
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
Title: Re: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: CritAnime on November 19, 2012, 06:53:23 PM
I always that it was 32mhz. I stand corrected on that :)

But the dtv is, as we pointed out, very flexible. Didn't the guy who made the c64 laptop embed one into the case to act as a floppy drive?
Title: Re: Minimig Core in C64 DTV
Post by: kedawa on November 20, 2012, 12:16:15 AM
Is it possible to connect a chameleon cart to the DTV?