Mini-Mig Bill of Materials

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The 68k is discontinued at Freescale.

Huh? I checked a few days ago and they were still in production (dunno if you havr to buy a thousand pieces), the ones that got the axe were the (68k) dragonball procesors; which makes sense since coldfire is much better.

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The board could be argued to be a plain FPGA developer board.

We sure talk a lot, but I have yet to see a real development community, maybe when everybody with verilog skills has a minimig they can open a closed message board to discuss any improvements and share code.

The only other thing that comes near being Amiga specific is the m68k and joystick ports.

near? I would say "far". The m68k was used on the atari st, the apple classic macintosh, the sharp x68000, the sega genesis and all of the above except the apple macintosh used the same de-9 joystick ports.

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That sort of socket is probably very expensive.

If a socket is to be included wouldn't it be better to use them for the RAM chips? So if someone later on want's to upgrade the RAM on their system it would be just a matter of changing the chips. I remember once adding two chips to the sockets my cirrus logic video PCI board. two MB is ok for basic emulation, to run some applications on the amiga eight mb would be better and for emulating other hardware up to 128mb would be required. Am I dreaming to much? :lol: