Where are all the Minimigs?

[Belial6]

Well, TobiFlex has created a 68000 FPGA CPU and ported the whole thing to the DE-1 FPGA development board.  So, it seem that all we need is for someone with some technical skill to compile the whole thing together in an end user usable package so that we can order DE-1, install the software, and start playing.

[Belial6]

Have you run MiniMig on the DE-1?

What Discreet FX wants is irrelevant to running MiniMig on the DE-1.  They don't make the MiniMig FPGA design.  They don't make TobiFlex's 68000 design, and they don't make the DE-1.

I am sure that there are a lot of people that would be happy with reduced colors to actually have a MiniMig.  Also, as I understand it, there is no reason that the DE-1 couldn't have a simple mod that would direct graphics to a port that could handle all of the colors.

[Belial6]

I'm not buying the copyright line.  If documenting a product gave you infinite monopoly power, no one would bother patenting anything.  They would just copyright everything.  The description of the Amiga is also just a list of facts.  You cannot copyright a list of facts.  You can copyright the presentation, but not the data itself.

Now, I don't know Verilog, but it seems very unlikely that the code is laid out in the same order as the book.  It is also very unlikely that it is truly a one for one translation.

For you to be correct, it would also have to be true that the use of reference materials for any other project, FPGA or not, is a copyright violation.  I'm just not buying it.

How about some links to actual rulings on the use of reference works being copyright violations, because right now you are sounding an awful lot like a troll.

[Belial6]

@Pyromania

Do you keep referring to the MiniMig as MiniMeg out of some kind of protest, or did you just read it wrong the first time, and never noticed that it is MiniMig?