Contaced a Factory in China about producing a run of fully populated Mini-migs

[amigadave]

I would be interested in this opportunity to get a fully assembled Minimig v1.1.  Please keep looking into this possibility and tell the Chinese manufacturer not to paint any parts of it with that lead based paint that they like to use. :lol:

[amigadave]

I would volunteer, but I am waiting for the Royal Mail to deliver my MiniMig to the USA.   :boohoo:

[amigadave]

@RW222,

You wrote:

".....But not meaning to threadjack, just saying...."

Wow, what a huge three paragraphs of jacking you wrote that has little to do with MiniMigs.  I think perhaps you should have saved that for another forum thread in the correct forum title.

Anyway, to get back ON TOPIC, I will buy a fully populated v1.1 MiniMIG from the first person that can produce one.  (Even if it is produced in China, Tibet, Egypt, Indiana, Tijuana, or my neighbors backyard)

Let me know when they are available.

[amigadave]

@sir_inferno,

Don't you lick all your PCBs before you start soldering? :lol:

Tastes like Commodore chicken lips!    :crazy:

[amigadave]

Tomas wrote:
@terminator4
Maybe you should also look at the faults of your own country?
USA still tortures people, USA still have death penality, USA still has a huge deal of homeless people, USA invades countries for oil.
USA is also losing more and more freedom in the name of so called terrorism.
I am sure 99% of all x86 pcs has at least some components made in China.

The AmigaONE was a failure simple because of bad choice of chipset. Take for example the via 686b chipset... It had already proven to have alot of bugs on the x86 platforms, but still they choose it? It surely had nothing to do with those who assembled the board.

And who the heck could afford a minimig if it was produced here in the west? It just simply is not possible, unless you do a production run of tens of thousand boards, which is not possible in the amiga world.

I had to look back a page to see what prompted this attack on the USA by Thomas.  I am glad I did not complete my first attempt at a rebuttal to his post above before reading terminator4's messages (which I don't agree with, except for a few points, but I don't think that political crap belongs in this thread).  People in the USA are not all like terminator4, or George Bush.  It saddens me to see that so many other people from other countries dislike US citizens now, and think we are all like George Bush, or that we approve of the way in which the war in Iraq was started.

I could write much more in defense of the majority of US citizens, but this is not the time or place for such a long rebuttal.

[amigadave]

freqmax wrote:
There is no write function in the PIC18 firmware whatsoever. I read it..

Does this include writing to a RAM_Disk?  I know that won't help with saving games, unless the Minimig is left ON and the user just wants to shut down a game to do something else on the Minimig, and then return to the game without rebooting.

[amigadave]

whiteb wrote:

Darrin wrote:
I didn't think that would be a problem.  I assumed that there was something in place to make the Amiga think that the ADF selected was a real floppy (df0), so it's not the "Amiga" side of the logic that's the problem, but rather the software that "emulates" a "floppy" on the MMC which needs to be expanded to support a write function.  Correct?   :-?

Well, i am not an authority in this field, but the kickstart rom's already recognize an ADF being inserted, and will auto boot from the ADF, if the boot block on the ADF allows it, so it definitely sounds like code on the pic job.  What needs to be investigated, is that the current code, is around 37KB already, is there enough room left on the PIC ?

Not having a working MiniMig yet to test, what happens when the adf of a Workbench disk is selected?  Can writes to RAM then be performed?  Does a disk icon for the Workbench adf disk show up and when opened does it show remaining space up to the Amiga floppy capacity of 880kb?  Maybe these are stupid and uninformed questions, but please educate me.