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steve30 wrote:
I don't think MiniMig is really a replacement for Amigas though. It is a good project, but some of us might prefer to use proper amigas.

I must disagree, Minimig's design goal was to duplicate an A500 w/OCS chipset in FPGA.  As a result of Dennis' intention to release his work in some way as Open Source, that will allow others to pick up where he has ended and work on extending the code to include ECS, then perhaps AGA and who knows, perhaps a backward compatible AAA or 8mb Chip RAM design.  I think his work is one of the most exciting things to happen in the Amiga community in 15 years.  It opens so many possibilities.

Jens "Clone-A" project is similar, but he has not stated that it will ever be released as Open Source.  He is a hardware designer and sells his work to the rest of us.  I am looking forward to seeing Jens produce something similar to the C64 in a joystick for the Amiga, or an Amiga PDA or Amiga Laptop.  Who knows what he will do with his project.  In any case, we are living in exciting Amiga times again and I can't wait to see what comes of both these projects.

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guru-666 wrote:
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When all the second hand amigas run out.... then we have third hand amigas ( I think that already happend)
BTW don't you have 21 amigas? (and a massive winUAE/amigatholon) station  that should last you the rest if your life BRO!  Where do you stash them?

Yes, I am guilty of having 21 Amigas and just today I was working on installing AmiKit on the monster Dell XPS 700 tower.  I do have plans to cut down on the number of Amigas I keep, but I have to finish tweaking the ones I want to keep before I sell any that I don't want anymore.  I won't be selling that many, as I plan to keep a bunch of them networked together for rendering LightWave animations with Screamer Net and doing video editing, and of course I must keep one or two lower end models for playing all those old OCS/ECS games on.  After spending many of the last 8 years seriously adding to my collection, now is the time to really start enjoying them more.  I keep informed to what is happening new in the computer world, but it does not excite me as nothing really revolutionary has happened for a long time.  I don't intend to spend any money on new PC gear for a long time.  I'll just get by with what I have purchased over the last two years and concentrate on using my Amigas and hopefully programming for them for fun (certainly not for profit).  I might make a few bucks doing video editing, but won't count on it.  As for where do I stash them, I just moved into a huge house in the mountains that has lots of room.  As soon as I get settled in, I will unpack and set up as many Amigas as I can without the wife wondering what kind of nut case I am.  You all are invited to visit, just give me a week or two prior notice.   :-D