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Re: So, is MiniMig worth buying?
« on: June 05, 2008, 10:26:33 AM »
Hi Phantom,

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Phantom wrote:
I'm considering to buy a MiniMig, but I want to know from people that bought it already if it worth the money. I read some reviews from the net, but I hope that users from here have much more to say. Appreciated. :-)


Personally, I think you would get better value for money buying a general purpose FPGA development board.
The S3-400 on the board (IMHO) will not leave you lots of room for expansion.

The Altera DE1 at $150 can easily run Minimig with a 68k softcore, with room to spare.

The Digilent Nexys2-1200 with and SD adapter and PS-2 ports would be another inexpensive target. I'm working on a port to this particular board at the moment.

If you just want a modern A500 equivalent, and have no interest in tinkering, then the normal Minimig is still worthwhile.

Hope this helps,
Red
Redskull @ Digital Corruption
A500, 4000/060-75MHz
WinUAE on Windows7-X64Ult
Minimig DE1
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