First ebay Minimig sells for £214 (305 EUR / $428 US)

[amigadave]

Wow!  A bit higher than I had thought it would go for, but I am happy for the person who put it together.

Yes, how ironic that Amiga Inc. comes out with its lame announcement of a pending announcement (again), right on the heels of the community actually producing something real and tangible.  Yeah I know it is only a remake of an OCS A500, but it is just the beginning of something bigger and better.

I am hoping the Open Source and Amiga Communities will soon surpass anything that Amiga Inc. can come up with.  That will truly serve my sense of justice, after Amiga Inc. have left us with nothing for so many years, we can then do the same to them by making our own Next Generation Amigas via Maxi-Minimig version 5.0 (due out in the first quarter of 2010).

[amigadave]

alexh wrote:

amigadave wrote:
making our own Next Generation Amigas via Maxi-Minimig version 5.0 (due out in the first quarter of 2010).

Bagzie calling it "MegaMig". A MiniMig with a 100MHz 68060, 128Mbytes of SDRAM, 16-bit AHI compatible audio and 24-bit RTG graphics.

Sounds great to me, when and where can I buy one?

Seriously, I hope that just such a design is completed in the not too distant future.  It must also have ECS minimum, 15kHz & 31 kHz, and preferably, AGA.  Then we can start working on AAA on our own with full backward compatibility for MegaMig-II.

[amigadave]

wizard66 wrote:
2e and 3e Minimig completed in 8 hours a unit.
So practice is helping.
Now I have to wait for parts from the US(DigiKey)
Building 6 more Minimig's
Also I wil make one Minimig for a guy in the UK (PCB and Spartan and memory he will send accros the nordsea)
Mebay I'l make some more but time wil tell.
The cost of 180 euro's was whitout the houseing, but all minimig's I sell wil have one

Housing ebay:http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250181224669&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=015

Pics I sell just to help out anybody that wants to make a minimig, There is no sense in everybody have to buy a prommer...

ebay pic18:http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250181204059&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=015

So back to soldering I say ;-)

Nice work and great idea to offer the pic18 pre-programmed.  What would the total cost be for one of each, case and pic18, including shipment to the USA (California zip code 92314 to be exact)?

[amigadave]

by koaftder on 2007/10/29 21:02:21

I'd say someone with some basic skills who is familiar with smt stuff should be able to put together a minimig in about an hour.

I only took me about 5 minutes max to lay down the fpga, and thats the hardest component on the board. As small as the leads may be, you still don't need any magnification or special tools to get it on there.

Maybe with your eyes no magnification is needed, but with these 51 year old eyes I will absolutely be using magnification!  :lol: