Minimig PCB run - interest thread

[jahc]

To save bogging down the announcment thread, I've created this one to get an idea of what the majority of people want from the PCB.

I'm not sure about how many will be made yet, I guess if you post here that your interested it'll give me an idea.

I need to translate the PCB to a format my guy in china can work with so while I'm at it, I may as well configure it they way everyone wants.

There's been talk of making the ports (joystick, power etc) modular, i.e. on ribbon cables so they can be mounted however you like in a custom case, how does everyone feel about that?

I'm open to other suggestions like shape of the PCB for mounting in HDD cases (if possable). Just throw around some ideas and I'll amend this first post to collect them in a list or sorts.

A VERY rough idea of cost at this point is about £40 for an assembled PCB and £20 for the kit (PCB plus parts to solder yourself). I'd imagine assembled PCBs would be however be pretty limited

Buddy..... how far along is the project now? Are you still in the redesign stage for the port on ribbon cable idea? A progress report would be cool.

Me and my friend both want one. I will take it in ANY form. ANY formfactor.

EDIT: I'm only interested in a system that only requires a case.. I dont want to solder anything. Will many of these boards be assembled already?

[jahc]

Users have talked about putting a MiniMig in a real Commodore Amiga case. Is it possible to utilise its keyboard as well somehow? I'm thinking the easiest method would be building an adapter for the PS/2 keyboard port, and plugging the Commodore Amiga keyboard into that. That way, no changes to the MiniMig design need to be made.

The ports connected to the ribbon cables could match up to the port holes in the case, and the unused ports could be blocked off with a thin sheet of metal (just for neatness)..

Then the other issue is the disk drive. It sounds like too much trouble to add a disk drive controller to the MiniMig design. And I think many people will like being able to stick their entire games collection on a single memory card anyway.

I wonder if MiniMig cases could be made, based closely on real Commodore Amiga cases..