Who will be first??? Working MiniMIG v1.1

[amigadave]

CodePoet wrote:
@Amigadave

P.S. I am looking for someone that has SMT tools and expertise to install the SMT parts on my board so I can finish the rest of the project myself. If you have these skills, or know of anyone else that can help me, send me a PMail, or post the answer here for others that may also need the help.

I have SMT rework tools here, dunno if I'd be of any help though heh, I'm in Sydney, Australia... Shipping your board here would cost an arm, a leg and a testicle

The testicle I wouldn't miss as they are both disconnected now anyway, the arm and leg are another story.  :lol:

Anyone else in the USA have these skills, or am I going to have to use the toaster oven method?

[freqmax]

Some people have started used the bread roster. Much smaller at least :-D

[whiteb]

Well, if it works, great for them....., but Some people have wives that like to use Toaster Ovens for food and *FREAK RIGHT OUT* if you use it for something like that.

[Plaz]

Dennis wrote:
I have updated my website with binary versions of the PIC code and the FPGA core. Also, I have put up some building tips.

Dennis

Awesome, thanks Dennis!

Plaz

[tonyyeb]

whiteb wrote:
Well, if it works, great for them....., but Some people have wives that like to use Toaster Ovens for food and *FREAK RIGHT OUT* if you use it for something like that.

Never mind the Wife! Get your Minimig done!

[Plaz]

Some people have wives that like to use Toaster Ovens for food and *FREAK RIGHT OUT* if you use it for something like that.

My wife uses our toaster oven every day...

"No honey it's fine. All I did was bake some *lead paste* in there last time." :lol:

I'd be sent out at the same moment to buy a new one.... or else.

Plaz

[whiteb]

Don't worry, getting it done.

[Crom00]

 I am surprised to hear there is no one in china already producing 68000 chips since I think I have seen some toys with "16-bit graphics" that resemble some sega genesis games.

Will pass this info along to the factories.

[freqmax]

whiteb wrote:
Well, if it works, great for them....., but Some people have wives that like to use Toaster Ovens for food and *FREAK RIGHT OUT* if you use it for something like that.

Well ofcourse you buy a seperate 22 EUR bread roaster. That your wife never sees :-D
I would never mix stuff used for food and electronics containing various heavy metals. ;-)

[whiteb]

 Somehow I have messed up my order.

My 15 pin (For VGA) is *NOT* a HIGH DENSITY.............

Its a normal density.

HIGH DENSITY is P/N 107-5303 (Farnell).

[alexh]

I am surprised to hear there is no one in china already producing 68000 chips since I think I have seen some toys with "16-bit graphics" that resemble some sega genesis games.

The chips are useless for MiniMig. Made by Radica they use a custom ASIC just like the C64 DTV. The 68k is deep inside the ASIC and it is unlikely that all the signals we need are on pins.

http://www.radicagames.com/playtv-legends-sega-genesis.php

Ben Heckendorn converted one into a hand held genesis, you see he mentions that it is only one chip (GOAC)

http://benheck.com/Games/Sega_projects/Exodus/Exodus.htm

Why he did this I dont know, as the Genesis/Megadrive has a great official portable called the Nomad!

The 68k remake inside the Genesis/Megadrive DTV must be pretty compatible... I wonder who created this? And (assuming it's not Sega) if they are willing to share the HDL ;-)

[AJCopland]

Ben Heckendorn converted one into a hand held genesis, you see he mentions that it is only one chip (GOAC)

http://benheck.com/Games/Sega_projects/Exodus/Exodus.htm

Why he did this I dont know, as the Genesis/Megadrive has a great official portable called the Nomad!

Because Nomads go for about £300 on ebay? and are also nearly as old as Amiga hardware is getting! :-D

Also they fall into the category of extremely rare as they never sold many of them in teh first place.

Andy

[little]

@alexh

Here are some links, I admit this is no definitive proof, but I think at last one of them oughtot have a 68000.

http://www.sz-wholesale.com/P/TV-GAME/TV-Game-------16bit-TV-game-1243.html

http://www.sz-wholesale.com/P/TV-GAME/TV-Game-------16bit-TV-game-1243.html

http://www.sz-wholesale.com/P/TV-GAME/16-bit-TV-game-1236.html

http://www.sz-wholesale.com/P/TV-GAME/TV-game-1242.html

http://www.sz-wholesale.com/P/TV-GAME/TV-game-1244.html

Oh, this is by no means an exhaustive search, there are tons of sites like that one :-o

[wizard66]

I have my first minimig running

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=365299#post365299

[amigadave]

Is there anyone in the USA that has bought all their parts for building a MiniMig that could send me the BOM and the names of the suppliers they used?  I am expecting the delivery of my v1.1 MiniMig PCB within the next 7 to 10 days now since the Royal Mail strike has allowed some shipments.

Thanks in advance

[Darrin]

wizard66 wrote:
I have my first minimig running

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=365299#post365299

Good work  It was nice to see that 2.0 boot screen.  Please let us know you're experiences with it and how the games play.   :-)