Pre-assembled Minimigs - Cmonnnnn!

[Crom00]

Guys,

I've been through all the scenarios described in this thread. At this point the only thing hold me back is the lack of a BOM. I mean a complete Bill of Materials with part listing right down to capacitors and resistors listed.

No one will give us accurate costs without that.
If anyone has a list send it to me, I will forward to factory and we can move forward.

The whole reason for me contacting factoires in China is their experience with this kind of product, and speed.

I may just ask the factory to go ahead and spec out the parts as they see fit based on the data on Dennis' site to move things along.

[Crom00]

Belial6 wrote:
Have you tried contacting Dennis directly for the BOM?

Yes, yesterday and I can imagine he's quite busy from reading his posts.

There is a Holiday in China this week so they're all off giving them some time to digest all the data I sent, and us some time to assemble a BOM.

I'm going to have to send them my Cloanto Amiga forever CD so they can get up to speed with Amiga, being they're gonna be the first to actually build anything in years.
 :lol:

[Crom00]

To borrow from OJ...

IF I DID IT...

or more like when I do it... we're trying to structure this so that there is NO risk.

 After cost analasys we will review. If it makes sen$e to tool, we will ask the factory to roll out a few boards to see for a QC check.

We will take it from there. If the boards don't work, we'll sell them as modern art on ebay...LOL!

Regardless those Amiga.org members that have contacted get first dibs on a production run.

All of this provided the get a complete BOM.

[Crom00]

alexh wrote:
IF the copyright owners know they are owners, and IF they know about MiniMig (I know that is a lot of IF's) as soon as someone started to make any serious money they would come out of the woodwork for their slice.
 

Damn straight... the kicker is, it's not about who's right. It's about who has the most money to dump into legal proceedings.

Making and selling unprogrammed boards, perhaps as "general purpose FPGA boards" should be fine.
 

How would the end user go about programming or loading the emulated Amiga bits into the FPGA?
 

[Crom00]

mingle wrote:
There's a huge amount of interest in pre-assembled Minimigs, so I wonder why it seems to be so hard to get hold of one?
)

Need an accurate real world BOM Bill of Materials, I've spent a lot of time this week going back and forth between factories and you cant get from point a to point b without it. You can probably let the factory source a working version from the schematics but that will take time and development costs with risk that they may not be able to source all the parts.

Without a BOM you can print circuit boards till you're blue in the face, without , the IC's to populate it, the circuit board is a fancy piece of digital artwork.

You can hang it on a wall as a testament to the tenacity of the Amiga fantatical spirit.

But if you want the working model we all crave, need the BOM.

 :-D