Why the interest in the MiniMIG?

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little wrote:

Minimig can set an example to Amiga Inc, especially when it's somewhat successfull

They do not care about succesful, they care about profitable and unless someone starts selling plug and play minimigs by the thousands that simply will not happen.

Problem is, by that point it would be too late for them to join in.  Cannot put the genie back in the bottle.

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KThunder wrote:
to me minimig is a symbol of sorts. like AROS, morphos, uae, pci stuff, usb stuff and numerous others we the amiga fans have kept our computer alive for years.
while the company has done practically nothing for us  we have kept going. the company could have dont this years ago, they could have made one with aga, rtg and ahi audio. but they are to interested in... actually i dont know what they are interested in.

but our amigas are dying. we like hardware, as fun as emulators are we like our miggies. but bad capacitors, dying psus and oxidation are taking them one at a time. plus those that are killed :madashell:

in one form or another amiga is a survivor

Amen!  This community is bigger and better than any of the companies that have carried the Amiga name, Commodore included.

If nothing else, the MiniMig has reawaken the love I have for this machine.  And for hardware tinkering in general.

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Steril707 wrote:
Is anybody here knowledgable in the field of FPGAs?

I wonder how Dennis was able to rebuilt the functionality of the Amigas' custom chips. Is there any official documentation existing  about Paula, Denise etc?

I guess i don't know enough about Emulation at all yet, but i think this whole Hardwarehomebrew thing is quite interesting, and i would to get into that a little bit.

So, whats a good starting point...?  :-)

I am.

And yes, Commodore released a complete set of docmentation called the ROM Kernel Hardware Manuals.  I happen to own a set myself.  The documentation is pretty thurough, and the errata is also well documented as well.

A good startng point is to buy a starter kit from one of the big FPGA companies, I recommend Xilinx myself.