MiniMig with AGA

[Belial6]

Not to mimic the "Forget hardware, just run UAE" crowd, but why would we want to use a hard wired processor when we can use an FPGA?

[Belial6]

I don't know if you really are making a netbook, but I bet a lot of people would be really interested in a MiniMig motherboard that was sized and had the right connectors to just replace the motherboard on a cheap netbook.

People already pay ~$100 for a case, and ~$100 for a monitor + the cost of a keyboard and mouse.  If a MiniMig motherboard coud be made that could use the screen, keyboard and touchpad of a pre-existing netbook, I would buy a $250 netbook and throw the motherboard away.  The only missing piece would be getting it to take a joystick.

[Belial6]

I say it is a half dozone of one/6 of the other situation.  Whichever you have left over is what I will go for.  I could live without composit/svideo, and I could l live with the price increase.  I'd be happy to just be able to put an AGA Minimig in a standard case.

[Belial6]

Have you determined a price yet?  Have all of the first run boards been spoken for?

[Belial6]

I wouldn't get too worked up over the use of the word MiniMig.  Just as some might call an official (can it be official?) MiniMig an Amiga, I suspect that the term MiniMig will be used as common vanacular for any of the FPGA based Amiga compatibles.

I know, I look forward to the day when I can genericaly refer to this hobby's hardware as MiniMigs, and it's software as AROS.  I look forward to the day that 'Amiga' can be considered the old company that original built hardware fixed MiniMigs and wrote the original version of AROS.

[Belial6]

Pretty much.

I know I would like to see a project come around that was a USB GamePad/Mouse/Keyboard to PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse and 9 pin joystick adapter.  Even better would be to have headers that would take different adapters to output to different systems.

Something like what the X-Arcade does, but instead of having the interface permenently built into the controller, have it as an adapter so that we could use any controller, as well as mice and keyboards.

[Belial6]

Are you talking about the passive converters that only work with mice and keyboards that switch into PS/2 mode?

[Belial6]

I would still like to see a board where ALL of the connectors are cabled out, so that placement of the board in any case become extremely simple.

This board is a huge leap forward in making things easier though, so I am not complaining.  Not even a little.

I just have this nasty little habit of looking at what we have today, and thinking about how the next revision can be even better.

[Belial6]

OK, excuse my ignorance on this, as my electronics knowledge is ham fisted and brutish, so high frequency stuff would certainly be my undueing.

If cabling things out causes that much trouble, how is it that we can cable our screens out several feet from our motherboards without problems?  Often with adapters thrown in the mix...

[Belial6]

I get that, but when your already talking about a 3 to 6 foot cable, how much of a difference can an extra 3 inches make?

If cabling out the connector is going to make or bread a digital signal, there has to be more to it than cable length.  I am trying to understand what that is...