Is Minimig scene dead?

[omnicron10]

C-one has minimig support with HD file support in the latest version.

http://www.c64upgra.de/c-one/

From the site.

Tobias Gubener has done it again: A new port of Minimig is available in the download section of this website. V2.0 is based on Jakub Bednarski's sources of september 2009. Features include:

    * emulation of four floppy drives (DF0: to DF3:)
    * emulation of two harddrives using two image files of up to 4GB each
    * FAT16 or FAT32 supported for the CF card
    * long filenames for ADF images allowed
    * max. memory 11.5MB: 2MB chipmem, 1.5MB slowmem and up to 8MB fast at the same time!
    * horizontal and vertical image interpolation in VGA 31kHz mode
    * scanline effect emulation like on Indivision flickerfixers

While some of these features cannot be used on the original Minimig hardware at all, others are possible using Jakub's ARM board as a replacement for the PIC chip. However, Tobias' implementation uses a different approach: A second instance of the 68000 processor replaces the ARM processor. This makes the C-One with FPGA extender the best-equipped Minimig on the market!

[omnicron10]

The whole idea of the C-One is to be able to run multiple cores.  This latest Minimig core is the core from the DE1 ported over.  Has some nice upgrades but the best thing are some of the fixes for actual Amiga compatibility.  A lot of software that did not run on the Minimig 1 core now work.  Having a HDF also is pretty nice but to do that they removed the IDE port support in this version or more accurately, did not add it.  They used the DE1 HDF support instead which I think will work out nicely.  So far the C64 core is great, amiga cores are as good as the minimig, and CPC is one of the best in existance!  It is a pretty fun system.

[omnicron10]

It is a bit expensive.  It has a C64 cart port, IEC port, two SID sockets, A1200 clockport (not used), FPGA upgrade port, PS2 mouse and KB, C64/Amiga DB9 joystick/mouse ports, IDE and Floppy headers and a few more things.

Nothing else compares in that regard.  The FPGA upgrade board (standard on new purchases I believe) has a core three times larger than the Minimig 1.1 board with more RAM.  

FPGA Arcade will be a nice board but it is not available yet and I dont see prices listed on the site.  I don't think it will be two cheap.  

There is a lot of potential on the C-one that is not being used yet.  Fun toy.