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Offline Everblue

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Re: I wonder how clone A is doing
« on: September 05, 2008, 04:34:19 PM »
To be honest, i am a 100 times more excited about Clone-A than a scandoubler, for the following reasons:

1. A brand new Amiga, that is a 100% copy of the A500. My Amigas can die in peace :)

2. It will be small, very small!

3. It has an inbuilt scandoubler anyway  :-D

I now that it wont AGA games but 99% of games are play are OCS. Clone-A is the reason I never got a minimig.
 

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Re: I wonder how clone A is doing
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2008, 05:08:40 PM »
Wow your minimig runs all A500 software perfectly, and it can save too?

I'm impressed!

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Re: I wonder how clone A is doing
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2008, 05:43:24 PM »
"If you have been keeping up with the new core developments for the MiniMig, you would know that writing to the adf image files is now possible so saving data, or in effect writing to the mounted virtual floppy disk has been fixed."

Alright I did not know that. Thats good. Its not that I dont like minimig, but when I look at the games compatability list its far from 100% Jens promsises (obviously he can promise one thing and deliver something else, but thats another thing altogether.

"I hate to even say this, and I am sure the Clone-A will be a great and amazing product if/when it gets here, but to be perfectly honest, if I were Jens, I would be looking very hard at the return on his investment of time and money to complete the Clone-A project and then try to calculate the cost to produce it, the demand from the community, and his anticipated return on said investment of time and money."

Hey dont try and discourage him :)

"With the MiniMig doing so well, will another A500 clone sell in the numbers needed to make enough money to cover the production costs?"

If the MiniMig is far from perfect and doing well, I imagine a perfect A500 clone to do FAR better.

UPDATE: I have just read the news (and the thread) on the new core update. Ok I am really impressed as many games now work.

One question - I have a 15" LCD monitor (1024 x 768 native resolution). What resolution will the minimig output at? I am asing this, because usually, if its not displaying a native res., it will look a bit blurry.