Final Call for the MiniMig (at least from me)?

[Darrin]

As a Minimig-ARM-4MB owner/user I have to say that if you update your 2.0 board to incorporate all of these features then it would be one killer games machine.

Apart from the S-Video out and the nicer board design, there's not a good reason for me to upgrade to one of your boards, but you can put my name down for one anyway and I'll donate my old Minimig to my kids.

One question though, is there any way to incorporate a printer port so that the Minimig can use word processor software, etc without doing a serial link to a PC?

Regards,

Darrin

[Darrin]

The problem with adding more features requiring new ports one the MiniMig design it the FPGA - it does not have any more I/O left. That's why the FPGAarcade deserves it's place - it uses a much larger FPGA (both I/O's and gates), allowing for more fun stuff to be hooked up and implemented. For that kind of expansions, the MiniMig design is a dead end.

One possible way to solve just the parallel port thing could be through the ARM-controller. Let the ARM emulate a parallel port and hook up the physical port to the ARM through suitable buffers. That would require some serious work in both the ARM and the FPGA. Yaqube - where are you ?

Ah, cheers for that.  I was forgetting about the lack of I/O options.

The alternative is a serial cable to a PC and using software to mount the PC's printer.