From the Acube website:
- emulates four floppy drives
- adds write support to harddrive and floppy disks
- allow increase of the CPU speed from 7.09 to 49.63 MHz with a 4kb zero waitstate cpu cache
- allows usage of long floppy file names
- allows usage of directories on the SD card
- allows unlimited number of files by directory
- support for 2 HDF files
- fast firmware boot
As some one who has two Minimig's a standard 1 with 2MB of RAM and PIC plus an expanded one with 4MB of RAM and ARM addon board the real differences are as follows latest version of the PIC and ARM software.
ARM upgraded features
- support for large hard files (100MB is about the largest usable size with the controller PIC)
- much faster hard disk emulation (PIC harddisk emulation is about as fast as an old 80MB as found in A600)
- Better Floppy disk emulation compatibility (use 2x Floppy on PIC for best compatibility).
The way I see it the my 2MB Minimig with PIC is like my A600 with factory fitted 2.5" 60MB hard.
My 4MB Minimig is like an A500 with GVP harddisk and RAM upgrade.
So if you want to play WHDLOAD games get the ARM addon board if not the standard PIC will do fine.
Additional note: ether way get the 4MB model as its far more flexible.
You can enable or disable the extra ram and configure the chipram, other memory split from the config menu then then reboot to have the change take effect which is grate for getting fussy old games and software to run. Changing kickstart version also works in the same way.
