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

[AJCopland]

asian1 wrote:

My concern:
1. According to Freescale 68K is no longer available. All new products and design should avoid this product.

2. Possible lawsuits from Amiga Inc, Acer, Gateway.

Is it possible to create all-in-one Structured ASIC or Easic (e-beam) based on Minimig design?

1. The 68k 3.3v is still in production and is still used in
a lot of products, just not so many desktop/consoles, see: Freescale 68000

2. I wish someone would actually dispell this idea that someone could be sued for the MiniMig hardware, there is NOTHING that is owned by anyone that the hardware could be sued for using. For the actual binaries it might just be possible but even then I don't actually see a legal mechanism since reverse engineering IS LEGAL.

You're idea of producing an ASIC based on the MiniMig at the moment is probably an easier legal target than we currently have as the MiniMig hardware at the moment is just a reprogrammable device.

Andy

[AJCopland]

alexh wrote:

AJCopland wrote:
You're idea of producing an ASIC based on the MiniMig at the moment is probably an easier legal target than we currently have as the MiniMig hardware at the moment is just a reprogrammable device.

I'm not sure that is true. The Amiga OCS patents have expired and that was the protection of the ideas about making a chip with these capabilities. The original chips themselves are no longer protected Wikipedia:Mask_work

Cheers AlexH I hadn't realised most of that. Now is anyone on here one of those legal types? :-D

Andy

[AJCopland]

PM sent, anything to help get this production moving!
I'm still waiting on parts for my first home built one so it'll be interesting to see which one gets done first! :-D

Andy

[AJCopland]

Crom00 wrote:

All I know is I just boxed the thing up becuase I'm finding myself PLAYING the games for too long instead of testing one and moving onto the next game, or getting other work done. Highly addictive...

Now thats a nice thing to hear :-D

[AJCopland]

@terminator4

Wow, what a vitriolic set of posts. For a reference I'm from the UK and I'd actually say that the common perception is that most things manufactured in the USA is a piece of c**p. Then again many also think that things made in France are a piece of c**p, or Italy, or Spain... well you get the idea. It's just a manifestation of the Not-Invented-Here mentality and whilst it's sad to see the places around you losing jobs it's also true that we could be doing more to keep them rather than just whinging that it's not fair!

In fact most of goods made in China are of a pretty high standard. Certainly as good as anywhere else in the world.

You want yours made in America or Taiwan. Then go to the lengths that Crom00 is going too with his production run. He's sourcing factories, prices, components and forking out for initial test MiniMigs.

As MiniMig is OPEN SOURCE so if someone else wants to make one THEY CAN. There is no copyright there to protect!!!

Andy