Why the interest in the MiniMIG?

[Plaz]

it's a hardware emulator, a totally new device in an "FPGA" all in one chip. It's not an "Amiga"

I disagree and agree with you.

Using your perspective of "hardware emulation" we could say that the first A1000 was simply a hardware emulation of this....Lorraine. The chipset inside the A1000 was just a hardware emulation of the original prototype that used TTL, eproms and wirewrap. I would concider the minimig's FPGA a logical technilogical progression to the outdated chipset in an A500 as the OCS chipset was to the proto boards of the Lorraine.

I do agree that I would not necessarily call it "Amiga". If you wish to reserve that title for hardware originally manufacuted by Commodore, that's totally ok with me. Calling it and Ami-clone would be much more acurate I think. There we agree.

Plaz

[Plaz]

No it isnt.

Yes it is. And you contridict your self with your own statement. It was identical but had differences? There were large technical differences. Recreating (emulating) the Lorraine's TTL and wirewrap proto boards in maskable roms was a technical step forward.

Not true, the MiniMig is a re-interpretation of the OCS

We'd have to ask Dennis to know for sure, but I think it was his intention to imitate(emulate) not re-interpet.

After all the same people created both.

Well if we're going to be nit-pick today... no again. The Los Gatos/Lorraine team had personnel differences from the Commodore Amiga 1000 team. Jay Miner being the most obvious difference. Does that make a difference to us?

there is going to be translation errors,

And the first OCS chip set was perfect?.... Not.

Can we just agree that minimig is a clever clone and a technical advance and leave it at that?

Plaz