MiniMig the no bull thoughts on this device

[ChaosLord]

I agree.  Flight sims zip along on the Minimig with turbo mode engaged.

I never realized that a plain old Minimig had high speed chipram!

Did anyone post bustest results of a 4MB Minimig in turbo mode?

As a game designer I like to know how fast the chipram is.

A lot of games could benefit from faster chipram.  Such as Dune 2, Stunt Car Racer and a lot of others.
 

A Minimig with 4MB and ARM is like taking an A500+ and attaching:  68000 Accelerator, RAM card, HD interface with hard drive, 4 floppies, KS3.1 & 1.3 on a ROM switcher, Flicker Fixer and a PS2 mouse adapter.

The only thing you really lose is the parallel port, so anyone who wants to do some printing will need to rig up a serial link between the Minimig and a PC/Mac.

Without the PAR: port you lose Joystick Port #3 and Joystick Port #4 so when ur friends come over to play 4 player games, they can't.

[ChaosLord]

I think the CHIP in Minimig 1.1 is 2X AGA in some tests I performed

I run my WB in 728x283x4BPP PAL which would run poorly on the real thing...

:roflmao:  "poorly".  It would run completely horribly slowly on a real A500!  I know, I tried it a few times.

But with superspeed chipram that changes things completely!

It also means that certain games, which would slow down when a lot of enemies were on the screen, could now be played fast and smooth.

[ChaosLord]

So what happens when you try to get PAL on a PC TFT monitor ?

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IF Monitor = RIPOFF THEN
   NothingHappensHAHAHA
ELSE_IF Monitor <> RIPOFF THEN
   YouGetPicture
END_IF


[ChaosLord]

My ViewSonic monitor is a normal monitor.  This means it is not a RIPOFF.  This means it accepts PAL input signals.  And no it does not upscale it to 60 hz.  That would be horrible.  If some other model does that then yuck!  Don't buy it! (unless there is an option to turn that off).

Everything looks normal on my ViewSonic.  It actually looks better than my C= 1950 Multisync and my C= 1960 Multisync.

My ViewSonic displays PAL.  My ViewSonic displays NTSC.  My ViewSonic displays PC signals.  I have everything connected to this one monitor with a KVM switch.