Contaced a Factory in China about producing a run of fully populated Mini-migs

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Crom00 wrote:
power supply or abs plastic case.

I think power supply and plastic case is something most users can provide easily. A populated SMD board is however the key.

Crom00 wrote:
Imainge a container loaded with Min-Migs held at customs because of a lawsuit. Ugghhh...

One could setup operations outside of jurisdiction where Amiga Inc wants to sue. Or simple just put pressure directly on Amiga Inc directly to not persue.

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Interestingly Mattel sorry for 'design flaws'

Ofcourse they are sorry. They want to continue business with China :-D ,That excuse just smells political pressure all the way.

@little:

No you don't, I remember someone hacked an USB port into his (unaccelerated) A1200 and it worked albeit it did not reached the maximum USB 1.1 speeds, but IDE would be just as slow.

How will a game for A500 OCS that expect say an Amiga keyboard, and not an usb one interface?, Some hardware will have to translate, and the m68k will be 100% busy with the game software.

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Now a Taiwan outsourcing is something China certainly will frown upon :-)

Btw, seems .ch support both Burma & North Korea..

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The DCM can be used to accomplish 8 MHz or whatever other computers need without any hardware modifications. Just take a look at clock_dcm.v
AGA is 32-bit asfaik.

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@ChrisH:
When I visited a manufactor working for Ericsson I saw that they had been supplied with a testrig such that every board could be verified to be working.
So maybe there should be a daughterboard just to test the Minimig hardware wise.

@JimS:
Maybe you could send your "systest" disc to Dennis such that we can know if Minimig pass?

@little:
Hardfile and write ability should be possible if there's enough code memory.
2M is needed, 4M cost more. Better to get SDRAM working, which will give 32M :-D

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Well socket seems nice, but are a EMI liability, require board space, more complications than simple soldering it right on.
And most 16-bit computers didn't make use of that many MB. The left over will likely be used for kickstarts or ram discs etc..
Don't forgett all ideas needs to be put into reality. and then murphys law come into play and you will want to keep things very simple.

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Interesting products that Poisonmart have. I heard Fraudmart promise unusual customer satisfaction on their products :crazy:

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That requirement translates into using DRAM (3.3V-EDO, SDRAM, DDR1, DDR2).

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Within Europe, some local supplier for the discretes. And say Olimex for the pcb. One might get the cost down.

The ONLY reason I started with digikey was due they are a Xilinx FPGA distributor + their parametric search. And they happens to have m68000 aswell.

The tricky components are FPGA & m68000.

Anyone that can optimize the component sourceing will contribute to make more minimigs a reality.

If you have Linux ISE >8.x installed you can try these automatic build files (Makefile):
http://filewebhosting.com/download.php?file=476Minimig1.tar.bz2
(ISE GUI seems to love to crash)

If you do try the minimig verilog compile, please post which cpu type, cpu frequency, memory size, memory type, operating system you used. And how much realtime that was needed.

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There is no write function in the PIC18 firmware whatsoever. I read it..

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@amigadave:
Writing to ram disc is likely to work. It's writing to external storage that is a dead end.
And this is because the amiga implementation will run kickstart (or whatever) that will itself take care and execute  any write operation to ram (wich is r/w).

@Crom00:
"Looks better on 4:3 VGA than 16:9 widescreen 22" monitor due to the stretched   pixels."
Maybe there should be a video mode where side borders are added such that the aspect ratio become correct. Infact the extra space could be used for an permanent OSD.