Minimig - I'd consider taking the plunge

[Ral-Clan]

I'd consider buying a Minimig too, but as far as I know you cannot yet attach any type of hard-drive (or other mass storage device to it).  There's only the SD card which can act like a floppy (or hold many floppy images).

As it is, (as far as I understand), the Minimig just does a pretty good job of emulating an ECS Amiga 500, but not much beyond that.

I've seen demos of an AGA Minimig - essentially a MiniMig A1200, but I don't think that's been released or perfected.

Too bad, because I certainly WOULD buy a Minimig if it had AGA, real or virtual hard drive support, RTG graphics support, more RAM and a 68030 or 040 emulated CPU.  Essentially a "big box" Amiga Minimig (A3000/A4000).

I was very impressed by the Minimig when it first came out (what, like five years ago now), and understood that a basic A500 Minimig was a great achievment, but I thought we'd be at the A4000 level with it now.

[Ral-Clan]

The FPGAArcade Replay board will have all of the features you want and more.

But the Amiga core to make this device the equivalent of an A3000 or A4000 is not ready yet?  Correct?

If it was ready I would most likely buy it.  I waited for years for a Natami with money in hand, but that never materialized.

I never believe any Amiga announcement until I see the hardware being demonstrated by a satisfied customer (not developer showing pre-release hardware) on YouTube.

Also, can all these Amiga FPGA solutions use modern VGA monitors?

[Ral-Clan]

The Replay board can drive VGA / DVI / HDMI but the monitor must be able to cope with the H and V frequencies the core is generating.
/MikeJ

So does that mean that if the screenmode used is, for instance, NTSC, the video output would be 15KHz and require a monitor that supports it - or would this device automatically scan-double 15KHz modes to 31KHz so that one would not need to hunt down old / hard to find monitors that supported low scan-rates?