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Re: Video Toaster working on Minimig
« on: October 20, 2007, 12:41:20 PM »
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alexh wrote:
In addition to the video slot, the Video Toaster also needed a Zorro II slot.

To make it work with MiniMig you would need to expand the RAM to 10Mbytes, add a 68030 CPU and implement the BUSTER chip inside FPGA, maybe use a larger FPGA for the extra I/O's that go with that.

Not feasible.


Perhaps feasible.  The original and Video Toaster 4000 both needed only an Amiga Video Slot and 1MB Agnus, not a Zorro II or III slot.  The original Toaster even works with a 68000 but it's dog slow.  A little fast ram helps as does more than 1MB chip ram.  The real accessory slots needed are powered ISA ones for TBCs and the like and some kind of mass storage device like a harddisk to store the Toaster software and OS (not possible to boot it from floppy, iirc).  The real key is going to be if the Minimig can sync to 15kHz NTSC, without which the Toaster can't start up.
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