Are you buying an FPGA Amiga?

[Darrin]

I already have a Minimig v1.1 with ARM, I'm waiting on the FPGA Arcade and I'll take a good look at the Natami when it is out.

Unfortunately I answered "I already own one" when I should have said "and I'll get another".

[Darrin]

"You look down and see a tortoise, Amiga. It's crawling toward you... " (maybe to obscure a quote?).

Since when has Blade Runner been obscure?  

[Darrin]

Alien to the system ? They existed before AGA. Heck they existed before ECS. RTG is so much better an experience than custom chipsets. As for superaga, it might be better than AGA(not hard) but I doubt it'll come close to an RTG system. As for new software, I wouldnt hold your breath minus a few showpieces.

Agreed.  While I might be running most of my games in OCS/ECS/AGA screenmodes, I couldn't life without RTG for Workbench, word processing, web surfing, etc which is probably why I tend to ignore my A1200s.

[Darrin]

I never bought one, but I was loaned a MiniMig from ACube to help develop new cores. However they sent me one with a PIC without TinyBootloader and so I couldn't reprogram it. They said they would send a replacement PIC but never did and it has sat on the shelf in the office ever since.

I wish you told me that.  I replaced my PIC with an ARM controller so I could have sent you mine.

[Darrin]

What advantage do FPGA Amigas have over UAE Amigas?

Simplicity, and you don't have to cart around a PC for starters.

I use Amiga Forever and a Minimig.  The Minimig "feels" like my real Amigas with regards to booting, responses and that lovely ability to attach "Atari" joysticks to the ports.  One look at UAE's configuation menu is enough to put you off.