What's the point of the MiniMig?

[AJCopland]

Not because we must, but because we can :-D

Plus its an ace little Open Sourece system to tinker with and perhaps expand beyond the OCS/ECS chipset with things that people wouldn't have bothered with back then. Triangle rasterising comes to mind. :lol:

Andy

[AJCopland]

Oh they will, indeed doing things like that is one of the cores reasons why I like the idea of the MiniMig.

However thats at the "running" stage and I'm still waiting for parts so that I can get to the "walking" stage. I.e. a complete and functioning MiniMig v1.1

alexh wrote:
One of the "points" of MiniMig doesnt seem to be getting exploited.

I am suprised that there has been no ports of other "opensource hardware" to a MiniMig board yet? Tobiflex's Amstrad CPC core or Mike-C's VIC 20 or Sinclair ZX Spectrum

[AJCopland]

alexh wrote:

HenryCase wrote:
I mean is the h/w they normally run on fairly similar?

Yup. All the standard I/O are there. Just Analog Audio in is missing.

Couldn't you erm.. cheat in the same way that the MiniMig cheaps and simply pretend it was loading from tape just as MiniMig pretends its loading form disk using ADF files on the MMC card? The internals shouldn't care where the stream of binary data was coming from as long as it was getting that data in the format that it expected.