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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: dandelion on June 28, 2015, 03:42:14 PM

Title: How useful is the Minimig as an actual Amiga?
Post by: dandelion on June 28, 2015, 03:42:14 PM

After hearing about the Minimig Mist, I started wondering about how useful the original Minimig would be as a fully fledged Amiga computer. From a bit of research, it appears it can access a hard disk file so it could potentially give you a Workbench environment. Has anyone had any experience of trying to use the Minimig as a serious Amiga system, rather than basically an ADF jukebox? For example, I was interested to see it has a serial port and like the idea of using it as a dial-up BBS system.

Title: Re: How useful is the Minimig as an actual Amiga?
Post by: kolla on June 28, 2015, 03:59:02 PM

It's as usable as any Amiga with 3.5 MB of RAM. Mine has a customized version of OS3.9, and I have used mine for DPaint and various music software, and hooked it up to Internet with AmiTCP and PPP over bluetooth nullmodem connection to a Linux box. Or just used VLT or Term, downloading stuff with zmodem commands.