Minimig PCB run - interest thread

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alexh wrote:

If Dennis wanted to make any money from this he would have. He could have made and sold boards... THEN at a later date release the JUST the binary FPGA file.

There was an opportunity for him to make money from this and he chose not to AND provide the source.

He is a great man for doing that. A better man than myself I fear.

I for one would like to contribute to him, if I bought a MiniMig capable PCB.

Well deserved money is never to be ashamed of earning it, at least not a reason to be any worst (or do you think only bad people deserve to make money :-P), nor anything stopping Dennis or anyone else for that matter to make money with it. In the end Dennis might make money, direct or indirectly from it, or at the very least I hope to be so as it he rightly deserves it!

On a side note I think both bounties #23 and #24 would fit perfectly towards MiniMig goals, presenting an Open Source solution completely free from (sc)Amiga IP.

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mongo wrote:

IDE would be cheap and easy to add. Really not much point in using a Zorro-II SCSI card.

Given a machine as Minimig what would you use an IDE drive for? At least when against a 2Gb USB pen, where you could fit almost any games and change it on the fly and cheaply.

It would add space also...

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No pain, no game... ;-)

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it's as in 'AROS roots'... I was told that it would be it's as opposed to its by an US speaker, but I had that very same doubt as you.

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Thanks... there's nothing worst then having a bad formed sig... like walking on naked

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@Dr_Righteous:

Ok, let's get off the USB track of thinking here folks. For all intents and purposes MiniMig is an A500 clone. USB will not work worth a flip in this current code / CPU state, nor in the near future.

Didn't knew my A500 had a MMC flash card! :-P

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@bloodline:

Since there are numerous opensource PCI controlers for FPGA's coupled with the fact that PCI devices are cheap, plentiful and diverse... PCI would be far more sensible than ZII. Again AROS would be able to provide PCI drivers.

I seriously think this is out of MiniMIG's scope. What value would have a 68000 machine expandable? Expandable to do what with that raw processing power?

MiniMIG will allow to run Amiga games and probably faster in a  little case, now you start to add space, and 'functionality' based on a 68000 processor and you're stretching to far, IMO...

BTW, I hope people interested in MiniMIG also help him untie from current and future IP {bleep}-slapping through AROS kickstart replacement, this way it could be presented to the rest of the world and not just to a selected few.

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I am ready to buy at least one, if not two boards. Preferably the original size of 12cm square.

Then sir, you might as well get what you want! ;-)

At the same time contributing for the openness of it by directly contributing to the Team AROS Kickstart II bounty.