Contaced a Factory in China about producing a run of fully populated Mini-migs

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At the very least the next feature added should be UAE hard file support.

I do not know if it is posible with minimig 1.1, but it is a two in one feature:

1. Ability to read from UAE hard files
2. Ability to write to floppies and hard files.

Also, since it seems it is getting harder to obtain the small (in capacity) RAM chips, could someone please tell me if it feasible to add bigger (in capacity) chips? 4mb should be the minimum IMHO.

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The Amiga's chipset can only address 2MB maximum.

I was thinking about 512 kb kickstart + 512 kb chip RAM + 3MB Fast RAM or any other combination that gave a total of 4 MB; instead of the actual 512 kb kickstart + 512 kb chip RAM + 1 MB Fast RAM.

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SDRAM working, which will give 32M

Better, how about 32 mb soldered into the minimig and a socket so you could add a 32 or 64 mb chip? :-D

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Chinese electronics firms have been known to copy and mimick items which have then been seen for sale at a vastly reduced rate.

That would be the best thing to happen to the amiga community in a decade, having low cost amiga clones. I just went to a local supermarket and for less than $20 USD there is a sega master system clone with 2 PSX controllers (without rumble or analog controls, but with db-9 conectors), a light gun, a game cartridge with several games and an AC/DC converter. I have no idea of the retail price of a mass produced minimig, but I would bet it will be in the $50-$99 range. My only fear is that there will be time to further improve the 1.1 design (so no extra/faster RAM or UHC124 or battery backed RTC will be added).

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I was just worried about someone making a profit from other peoples work.

Should I give you the phone number of your nearest dealer that sells x86 computers preloaded with linux? Those barbarians have yet to give a penny to linux torvalds, I am pretty sure you can vent your righteous anger upon those heartless capitalists  :lol:

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Has anyone verified that these PS1 Style db9 contollers work with Amigas?

I have not checked, but chances are they are wired like the Megadrive/Master System/MSX/x68000, so they are not 100% compatible with Amiga/Atari ST/C64 (+5 volts and Ground are in diferent pins). Changing the pins solves that problem, but only gives access to 3 buttons, to allow more buttons to work it would require to implement this diagram (which adds cd32 functionality for 6 extra buttons for a total of 9 buttons; the 10th button could be used to enable/disable autofire, I suppose)



Information gatthered from here:

http://dk.aminet.net/docs/hard/appe_v32.lha

edit: Here is a clear diagram of how to implement it:

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filenames are a MAXIMUM of 8.3 (Who remembers DOS ?)

FAT 16 has support for up to 255 characters filenames with LFN :rtfm:. What I would like to know is if the PIC program has LFN support :-?

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struct file2TYPE  {     unsigned char name[12];            /*name of file*/ ...

It seems to me there is no LFN support :shrug:

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Drifting for a moment into presumtion (dream)land, if (next year) there is a mass production of minimigs 2.0 and if it includes an interface that allows connection to the internet (rj-45, 802.11b or usb) would it be fast enough to surf the net? I read the other day about the Icab 2.9.9b web browser for the 68k macintosh and maybe they could get interested in porting it to amigaos 3.1? It needs 4.5 mb of RAM, so a minimig with 8 mb ram would be required.

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Uhm, and what does iCab 2.9.9b have that amiga browsers dont have?

You tell me

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sir_inferno wrote:

amigadave wrote:
tell the Chinese manufacturer not to paint any parts of it with that lead based paint that they like to use. :lol:

u planning on extensively licking your minimig?

It is the new fad, how many licks do you need to get to the center of your minimig? X_X The world might never know :lol:

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(China) got fixed currency exchange rates (not free floating like other currencies) making it hard to compete against.

Here in Mexico we had fixed currency for decades and we never were internationaly competitive like China is nowadays. Bottom line, do not blame it on "fixed currency", the USA is less competitive today than it was yesterday.

(China) is communist

China's political regime still is totalitarian, but their economic system has shifted from communism to capitalism.

disrespects human rights and labor rights

Do you realize the USA has been doing just that to illegal immigrants for decades?

toy recalls lately

Let me remind you that in recent months they have recalled from my local supermarket vegetables grown in the USA due to health concerns.