Minimig AGA 060 RTG

[amigadave]

I want a replay board!!!!!. can't wait!!!

Aren't there some available right now?  I thought that MikeJ still had some from the second production batch that he has not sold yet.  Maybe I am wrong, I have been away working in Hawaii, 21 miles North of Hilo, for the past 4-1/2 weeks, without any Internet connection, so I am probably behind in the latest Amiga news regarding the Replay boards.

I also want a Replay board and the 060 daughtercard.  If there are any Replay boards still available, I will probably ask MikeJ to buy one this week.  I want to have it running the Minimig core + AGA for my trip to the AmiWest 2011 Show this year.  It will be a great machine to run on the rear seat flip-down video screen while someone else takes a turn driving.

I know that the 060 board won't be ready for a while, but I hope most of the remaining work on the Replay core code will be finished before the AmiWest Show starts.  Or is the code for the menu finished already (I have not made it to the beginning of this thread yet, working backward).

Why do so many people use "Minimig AGA" to title threads about the Replay board?  Well, on to the beginning of this thread, reading the rest of it.

[amigadave]

Every time I see this thread rise to the top of the "Front Page" of any Amiga website I get excited and hope to see that a price and date when orders can be placed has been posted.  Then I get disappointed to see that it is only some discussion about square pixels and displays.

What is the latest info MikeJ, about when the second batch of production (the next 50 boards) will be scheduled for manufacture & assembly?  Is it going to be in the next couple of weeks, or is there still some kind of materials delay, or wait for assembly scheduling that is the hold up?  Maybe I am out of touch and the boards are already assembled and only need to be tested, or have one or two final hand assembled items installed on them before they can be tested and then shipped out to buyers.  I don't know, as I have been traveling and without Internet connectivity off and on for the past 6 weeks and might have missed some forum postings in that time.

[amigadave]

MikeJ got a seriously delayed FPGA delivery, dunno about other components but they are proberbly ok. The PCB is done asfair. The remaining task ought to be assembly and testing. I guess he will send components and pcb for assembly as soon as he have the oppertunity.

The price is approximatly 200 EUR asfair. Delivery maybe within a month.

I think you are correct, as I remember now that the boards were done and he was only waiting for the delayed parts to arrive.  Now he has to wait for an assembly slot, as he stated that his small production run must be fit in between larger production jobs, or the price to run his would be higher than it is.  I am sure MikeJ will let all of us know when he is able to get his small production run scheduled for assembly and then there is the testing phase.  What I am unsure of, is the number of hand assembled parts that MikeJ must put on each board AFTER the assembly run is completed (if any) and how much testing he does on every board.

I will remain patient and wait for the good news of when I am able to send him some money.  I still have a v1.1 Minimig PCB and all the parts to assembly it sitting here in my home waiting for my soldering iron to heat up, but that project will most likely become a gift for my Grandson in the future when I finally complete the assembly and testing of it.

Keep up the great work Mike, we all are looking forward to your great design and results of your continued hard work in developing the firmware and menu software.

[amigadave]

If I can get my Replay board delivered to me before Oct. 20th, I will have it with me at the AmiWest 2011 Show in Sacramento, California.

I have heard that some AROS guys might show up at this year's show and I have been trying to convince the Natami Team to send someone with a working prototype board to the show as well.

How many of you would try just a little bit harder to make it to this year's AmiWest 2011 Show if you could not only see an X1000 booting OS4, but could also see my demonstration of MorphOS2.x beta running on my 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook, the FPGA Arcade Replay Board, the latest AROS build on x86 & 68k, and a working prototype Natami board running AmigaOS3.x?

It is going to be a great show, even if not all of the above show up to display their stuff, so do what ever it takes to get yourselves to Sacramento over the Oct. 21st to 23rd weekend.  In addition to all the great gear and software, it is a hell of a lot of fun!  Hope to see many of you there.

Edit:  P.S. Paul Rezendes (aka Acill) will be there showing the latest development of AmigaOS3.x running on his iPhone (and/or iPad).

[amigadave]

Hi. Dr. Dave I could lend you my cased Replay for the showcase if you want. I would have to bubble wrap it a zillion times (to be safe..hehe) and ship it over to ya. Yet, it would take probably 3 weeks to ship (I just shipped my old MiniMig ITX_V2 to TX and it took like 25 days or so).

I ask for nothing in return but you'd have to pay shipping back to me. And to take good care of it at the show

Thanks for the offer. Please contact me via email. I will send you a PMail.

[amigadave]

I have them in my hand
/MikeJ

Great news Mike!

I am ready to send my money to you for my board.  Just let me know when it is ready to ship.

What is the latest news about the daughter card design and firmware?

[amigadave]

68060 chips are not that difficult or expensive to find, so I can't imagine too many people needing to worry about using this daughter board without an 060.  Finding the "Good" last revision 68060's that are capable of being over-clocked to 80MHz to 100MHz is harder, but I would imagine that even if you have to use one of the older, slower models of the 68060 and clock your daughter board at 50MHz or 60MHz, it will still be a good alternative to your A1200.

I already have my 68060 CPU waiting for this daughter board to become available, but it is not the last revision, so I am keeping an eye open looking for one of those, so I can run the daughter board at it's highest potential.

Edit:  I hope MikeJ and Yaqube will make the daughter board with a lot of extra RAM possible, for the few of us that would like to have >128mb of Fast RAM.  256mb, or 512mb would be nice if you are going to use the FPGA Arcade Replay to run Lightwave3D stand alone and some other RAM hungry Amiga programs.

I can't remember if MikeJ has integrated the ability to allocate more than 2mb of Chip RAM or not?  It would be nice to have 8mb or 16mb or more of Chip RAM that would allow some new larger screen resolutions with more colors, like what is planned for the Super AGA of the Natami, but the Natami has a new, faster blitter and I don't think that is available, or possible with the Replay (it's hardware does not exist except for on the Natami).

[amigadave]

btw, when a new minimig will be available to purchase?

This thread should be changed to FPGA Arcade Replay w/060 & RTG, as I don't think it has anything to do with the original Minimig.

The new FPGA Arcade Replay boards are being finished up right now with final assembly and testing and if you want one, just contact MikeJ to see if he has not already promised all 48 of the current batch to other people.

I don't know when he will be making the next batch, or if he will be increasing the number of units that will be produced in the next batch.  It probably depends on how fast these sell and what the demand for more is.