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Re: Minimig status?
« on: April 01, 2009, 09:56:50 PM »
I can only really comment on the FPGAArcade board (Replay).
The board is being built now, should be finished by the end of the week.

It uses the same ARM processor as Yaqube so it will get harddisk support. Ethernet is being considered for the expansion board. It has 32MByte of DRAM and uses a 68K softcore - with an option of a real 68K on the daughter board for verification of the core. I will maintain the Minimig core for this board.

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Re: Minimig status?
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2009, 11:20:27 PM »
I was just looking at MIDI ports for the ST clone (and the ST core is a real clone). I think I could put them at the rear of the expansion (top) board as a not fit option, and they could be populated as an option. Trying to keep the cost down...

 

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Re: Minimig status?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 10:10:16 AM »
well, you have to start somewhere.
The aim when I started this was to fix some long standing problems I had with the Atari chipset - we can now sort out the "if only it had this"...

There is no reason why we can't enhance the Amiga chipset as well, but first we need to get solid compatible chipset - hopefully including AGA - but it might not be the way to go. We can probably do better now, but then we need to write drivers for the new hardware. How much software is there for the AGA chipset?

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