Why the interest in the MiniMIG?

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Dave Haynie got one of these and started to play with it :-)

Well just send him one ;-)

I think the primary reason for Minimig is hardware decay. The number of working Amigas are finite. And they will become fewer by the day.
Imagine trying to replicate an Amiga without a working one to compare & test with..

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Amiga OS could be useful as a handheld. Or in embedded context. After all there's plenty of software. And it doesn't need MMU.