minimig just for gaming?

[gxenakis]

I am thinking about getting a minimig just for classic amiga gaming! I had an Amiga 600 in the old days, and I recently found out about the minimig and I am really excited about it.

I am googling the last 3 days about it and I am totally confused! :confused:

Do I need 2 or 4 mb version ?
Do I need arm or not ?

I read that minimig is facing problems with multi disk games. Also I contact amigakit and they informed that minimig with 4mb has hd support. That means I will be able to play whdload games?

I remember that my Amiga 600 had only 1mb ram and I was able to play rise of the robots! an 11-12 disk game!

thank you for reading this post.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Why don't you check out the FPGAarcade it's an AGA version of the minimig. Not out yet, but very shortly. I don't have a minimig but I've heard they are fine for A500 style games. The 4MB version is needed if you want to tinker with apps.

[runequester]

I am thinking about getting a minimig just for classic amiga gaming! I had an Amiga 600 in the old days, and I recently found out about the minimig and I am really excited about it.

I am googling the last 3 days about it and I am totally confused! :confused:

Do I need 2 or 4 mb version ?
Do I need arm or not ?

I read that minimig is facing problems with multi disk games. Also I contact amigakit and they informed that minimig with 4mb has hd support. That means I will be able to play whdload games?

I remember that my Amiga 600 had only 1mb ram and I was able to play rise of the robots! an 11-12 disk game!

thank you for reading this post.

To my knowledge, the basic minimig emulates 2 disk drives, so Beneath a steel sky might take a while..

For classic games, 2 MB is plenty fine for almost everything. It'll give you expanded sound in a few games. Im hard pressed to think of an OCS/ECS game needing more.
4 MB might be handy for running a more full fledged system.

[gxenakis]

So I could play any 2 disc game and that's all. No monkey island It is strange that I cannot swap disks!

Will I be able to save progress with virtual drives?

I read that ARM controller gives you the possibility to have 4 virtual drives. but it cost half the price of minimig!

I've google the FPGAarcade but there is no release date!

[ElPolloDiabl]

So I could play any 2 disc game and that's all. No monkey island It is strange that I cannot swap disks!

Will I be able to save progress with virtual drives?

I read that ARM controller gives you the possibility to have 4 virtual drives. but it cost half the price of minimig!

I've google the FPGAarcade but there is no release date!

Search on here for posts by mikej he updates the progress here.

[gxenakis]

now I am thinking about a minimig 2mb to have around while waiting for the FPGAarcade to come out! :hammer:

I could play most of the classic game and when FPGA comes out, hard core playing!

I think that minimig will help me also to get in touch again with all the tips and tricks custom boards require.

[kolla]

So I could play any 2 disc game and that's all. No monkey island It is strange that I cannot swap disks!

No no, ofcourse you can swap disks - but you only have 2 drives!

Will I be able to save progress with virtual drives?

Yes.

I read that ARM controller gives you the possibility to have 4 virtual drives. but it cost half the price of minimig!

True, but it's an excellent upgrade, you get a much faster and capable system.

I've google the FPGAarcade but there is no release date!

Also true, I expect a date to be more clear within a  2-3 months

[Hattig]

Considering that with the ARM board, I believe the 68000 can be clocked in excess of 40MHz (although I think the non-ARM version can get to 28MHz), you do get a very fast "basic" Amiga out of the box. Faster than a stock A1200 in terms of CPU power, albeit with OCS, not AGA.

FPGAArcade is the next generation of classic Amiga implementation, doing AGA.

Beyond that is Natami, but they keep on expanding their scope and getting lost in their "68050" CPU they're designing, although it should end up being a good core. Natami will require a more expensive board due to needing a bigger FPGA. It'll be what a classic Amiga would have been in around 1997 had development continued (and the 68000 series had stayed the CPU of choice).

Personally I'd love to do some Blitz Basic development on a Minimig (although I'm waiting for FPGAArcade), or create a cross between dungeon keeper and Doom.

[gxenakis]

Natami looks promising that I do not think that it will be released soon!

Also I am sure that FPGAArcade will be out of stock the first day! Another thing I noticed is that minimig was advertised as a A500/600 clone, but FPGAArcade is not! Confusing :angry:

[jj]

The  FPGAArcade was origanlly developed to run old games like 1942.  It is capable of running muliple systems.   But MikeJ has been in close contact with this community.