Why the interest in the MiniMIG?

[Rob]

Minimig has lower power requirements compared to a Commodore Amiga or PC emulation.

Power consumption is something that is important in todays world, and something that I think most have not even considered about Minimig.

[vic20owner]

Nobody has mentioned the fact that the disk access is read only.  Is that still true? If so it seems pretty useless for anything other than just playing games.

And while I'm not sure I want yet another computer on my desk... I may eventually get one.. AFTER I see how the compatibility is.  Where's the compatibility list?

Where is all of this stuff?

[downix]

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.

[Plaz]

No it isnt.

Yes it is. And you contridict your self with your own statement. It was identical but had differences? There were large technical differences. Recreating (emulating) the Lorraine's TTL and wirewrap proto boards in maskable roms was a technical step forward.

Not true, the MiniMig is a re-interpretation of the OCS

We'd have to ask Dennis to know for sure, but I think it was his intention to imitate(emulate) not re-interpet.

After all the same people created both.

Well if we're going to be nit-pick today... no again. The Los Gatos/Lorraine team had personnel differences from the Commodore Amiga 1000 team. Jay Miner being the most obvious difference. Does that make a difference to us?

there is going to be translation errors,

And the first OCS chip set was perfect?.... Not.

Can we just agree that minimig is a clever clone and a technical advance and leave it at that?

Plaz

[alexh]

Apart from the "advance" bit.

[discostu28]

I'm personally interested in Minimig because of the ability to load adfs from flash media.  This makes it's easy to shift them from your computer to Minimig.  I don't think that's actually possible to do on a stock A500.  So, you're limited to sourcing second-hand games which could be something of a lottery as time ain't kind to floppies.

And, of course, the Amiga itself could die.  Some Amigas are over twenty years old at this point!

However, Minimig is not, and may never be a consumer-oriented item.  There is also Clone-A in the works, which may turn out to be a better solution for those of us who aren't electrical engineers.

I found my limit was modding my saturn...

[Steril707]

Hmm, i think i really start seeing the possibilities with the MiniMIG...

I wonder how this particular project might turn out in a few years from now.

Any predictions?