Minimig worthwhile?

[murple]

If you want something that looks like an Amiga and runs non-AGA Amiga software but isn't an Amiga, and want to spend more money than it'd take to run UAE on your modern computer, then I suppose it's worthwhile. I think it's a really neat idea, and I'm impressed that someone built it, but I wouldn't buy one personally. If one was given to me for free, I'd probably use it for a week then never touch it again.

For me a big part of the Amiga experience is using the old hardware. Using an emulator (I've tried a few times) loses my interest after a day or two. When I no longer can use a real Amiga machine, I may fire up UAE for a game or two once every year or three, but pretty much at that point I'll be done with Amigas.

I guess my point is, nobody but you can say if it's worth your money to get one.

[murple]

beller wrote:

It's also the most portable Amiga.  Heck, you can take it to a friend's house with a couple of joysticks, and use their keyboard, mouse and monitor to play games.

I won't get into an argument right now about whether it's an Amiga or not, other than to say it's not

That said, while it is portable, I'd argue that a small laptop with UAE and some USB joysticks are even more portable, plus can run more things including AGA stuff.

The coolest thing about the Minimig is that somebody made it. I almost wish I wanted one because I like supporting geeks who do cool {bleep} like that... but I just don't want one.

[murple]

Dwyloc wrote:

Believe it or not my minimig plays a good number of games that just wont run on my highly expanded A1200 even with the help of whdload.  Some games just don't like BlizzardPPC cards very much not that have have any plans to ditch my Blizzard card.

You know that with most Blizzard cards, you can completely disable the accelerator by holding down the 2 key when powering on, right?