Minimig status?

[kolla]

mikej wrote:
I can only really comment on the FPGAArcade board (Replay).
The board is being built now, should be finished by the end of the week.

It uses the same ARM processor as Yaqube so it will get harddisk support. Ethernet is being considered for the expansion board. It has 32MByte of DRAM and uses a 68K softcore - with an option of a real 68K on the daughter board for verification of the core. I will maintain the Minimig core for this board.

/Mike

Looks excellent - definetly the obvious step up from minimig - ethernet option would be superb :-)

Oh, and one thing I miss on the minimig, and would also be obvious use for Atari ST "simulation" - MIDI ports :-D

[kolla]

mikej wrote:
I was just looking at MIDI ports for the ST clone (and the ST core is a real clone). I think I could put them at the rear of the expansion (top) board as a not fit option, and they could be populated as an option. Trying to keep the cost down...

No problem, as long as there is a way to actually get MIDI ports without too much fiddling, I'm fine.

I tried to hook up a RS232-MIDI box to the minimig, but it turned out that it uses pin 9 and 10 on the 25pin RS232, these two are +12V and -12V, and they have ofcourse no corresponding pins on the 9pin RS232. What it uses the +12V/-12V for, I have no idea. :-)