Minimig PCB run - interest thread

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Long time lurker here...

TheMagicM seems to have it right - the project is open source so those handy extras: IDE, clockport, fastram etc may well come in time.

The most important thing however (at the mo) is to get the design Dennis has produced modified (with the suggested fixes) to fit a standard mini/nano-itx case. This way everyone can easily and conveniently enjoy the open source nature of this little masterpiece.

Oh and my congratulations to Dennis btw for finally completing this after 3 years work. You are a saint to this community after a lot of broken promises and general cr*p they have received!

Oh and in regards to the sub-argument, "It's" can not be used for possession - I was assuming it was supposed to be some kind of pun (in that members sig).

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basman74 wrote:
This is my 1st post.  :-P

Now I have to confess that I've never owned an Amiga before (I own Z-80, 6502 and Intel-based PC's) but after reading every thread about the Minimig, I made two conclusions...

1.) Dennis is an absolute legend! From a fellow designer, a good job on the PCB artwork too!
2.) I am interested in owning a Minimig board too :crazy:


Cheers,

Valentin

So.. are you saying that the Minimig could well end up being your first Amiga? :-)

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**double post**

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Crumb wrote:
Of course it's just a dream as I guess Minimig will reach my dream Minimig v1.1 as maximum, but it will be ok anyway. Dreaming is cheap :-)

Dreaming of things like this can also be healthy, in certain doses.

I think your list is fairly good and realistic. Though I'm not sure how long AGA will take to impliment, considering how long it took OCS. There is more support though now it's out, and I do remember reading somewhere that AGA wasn't that big a leap over ECS.

Do we even need AGA for this thing I wonder - is Dennis even considering it?

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amigadave wrote:
It is great that Dennis built in a scan doubler so modern monitors can be used.  Some members are asking for composite output so TVs can also be used.

Talking about that (and I don't mean to sound ungrateful) I would have thought Composite/S-Video would have been a necessity on this thing, considering how console-esque it is.

Anyone know how easy this would be to integrate.. or even standard Amiga-RGB for us Scart users?

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techie wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think it was Jens intention to create replacement custom chips for the Amiga from the Clone-A project :/
(though admittedly my memory may be a bit off about this)

From what I remember reading in the article from Total Amiga a few months back, it sounds to me like the aim of that project was more along the lines of a Amiga in a joystick and/or a mini-itx board with scan doubling/flicker fixing built in.

You're correct it was never the ultimate goal to replace the custom chips, but it WAS one of the stages.

I remember at one point cycle-accurate custom chip replacements were being showcased in an original A500.

This is how the move forward to recreating and improving the original Amiga chipset is being done!

Both the Minimig and Clone-A projects are interesting and serve different purposes. However the fact of the matter is we have only one completed so-far and that is Dennis' Minimig.

I'm sure Jens will come through though - one of the few good guys left.

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tonyyeb wrote:
Any idea when we can expect delivery on the assembled units? I know Dennis is making changes to the PCB but possibly before christmas, after christmas? And any further update on the cost of an assembled unit?

It looks like v1.1 is on hold for now until Dennis has done the updates. It could be soon but if not we can only assume he's busy.

The original poster is doing a run of v1.0 PCBs though.