Acube Minimig price announced

[InTheSand]

Seems a fair price for such a (potentially) reconfigurable machine...

If someone could port the existing ST, Spectrum and C64 FPGA implementations to it, it'd make a great multi-purpose retro machine!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

The on-board 68K would certainly help with ST and QL emulation anyway!

And not forgetting the FPGA implementations of various old arcade machines too...

Would be great if those old 8-bit systems were ported over... I haven't plugged in a real 8-bitter for a while, don't want to risk damaging the hardware or having the machines blow up when I switch them on!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Ah, the good old "The Emulator" package! I paid GBP £50 for that brand new in early 1990! I still have it and the disk still works!

Great 68K implementation of BBC BASIC and the Beeb's basic screenmodes, but not much cop for running commercial BBC software!

Would be great to see a "real" Beeb implementation using the Minimig's FPGA....

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Ah! I also wrote my A-level project in BBC BASIC! Worked on it at home on the Amiga, then had to go from Amiga floppy to PC 3.5", then via a dual-drive PC to get it on to a 5.25" bendy, then I forget the final step for getting it on to a DFS-formatted disk!

Oh for the good old days!!!

 - Ali