minimig playing on it

[amazing]

today i was visiting Wizard66 cause he lives only about 15km away from me
he showed me the minimig he made and how the things a bit works
and i must say im impressed
the screen is very good and bright
and we played a bit Bubble bobble on it in 2player mode
i must say i dont feel any difference with playing on my a500 or 1200

good thing is u dont have to swap mouse cause thats on a diff connector ps/2

now im sure im gonna hurry and finish my minimigs cause its fun to play with it

Greetz Amazing

[weirdami]

cause he lives only about 15km away from me

But in the Netherlands, that means a 2 week stay, right? Gotta rest up from the trek? ;-)

[whiteb]

It is Depressing, waiting three weeks so far, and no boards.

[Illuwatar]

I can say the same as the tread creator. It works very well. I was testing out my Minimig with a lot of different games and it took most of them. 1.3 Kick is the one to use (with 2.04, several games failed that was working in 1.3). To mention some examples that I ran successfully: Turrican, Great Giana Sisters, Carrier Command, Speedball, Thundercats, Monkey Island, Blood Money, Ikari Warriors, Wizball... I also tried to lanuch ProTracker - it started, but there was no MOD-files at the disk image...

[Darrin]

Thanks guys for confirming what software is working.  I like the idea that you don't ahve to keep swapping the mouse and joystick over for games.

Can you sabotage "player 2" by moving the mouse when he's trying a difficult move on the joystick?   :-D

[freqmax]

Feel free to add successful runs of software at http://www.opencircuits.com/Minimig_Software_compatibility :-D

@Illuwatar:
http://web.comhem.se/illuwatar/project_pages/minimig/images/minimig03.jpg
What kind of port is it at the bottom of the pcb colored green and marked "LCD" at right ..?

[AndrewBell]

@Illuwater

Have you had any demos running on the MiniMig?
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[alexh]

Out of interest, has anyone else seen that several MiniMig screenshots show 1Mbyte of chip RAM and 512kbytes of fast ram?

I thought that it was the other way around.

And it's not only me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig

Not that it really matters.

Just wondering if it really does have that much chipram, or if a chip ID value was wrong or something leading to wrong values.

[AndrewBell]

alexh wrote:
Out of interest, has anyone else seen that several MiniMig screenshots show 1Mbyte of chip RAM and 512kbytes of fast ram?

I thought that it was the other way around.

And it's not only me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig

Can the user select whether to put kickstart into fast or chip? I imagine that feature would be included to improve compatibility.
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[alexh]

The kickstart lives at the address where it lives, it is in neither. It's not like the MAPROM feature of certain accelerators where it is copied to RAM to speed up access.

If you are asking if it is configurable to select from

512k chip / 1024k fast
1024k chip / 512k fast

I dont think so, not yet, and I dont know if it is even worth having that option.

[tonyyeb]

alexh wrote:
If you are asking if it is configurable to select from

512k chip / 1024k fast
1024k chip / 512k fast

I dont think so, not yet.

How does the 2mb of RAM on the board get allocated into fast and chip at the moment?

[AndrewBell]

alexh wrote:
If you are asking if it is configurable to select from

512k chip / 1024k fast
1024k chip / 512k fast

I dont think so, not yet, and I dont know if it is even worth having that option.

That was what I meant, even if I didn't type it  :-D

I vaguely remember some references to certain amounts of chip or fast ram causing compatibility problems when the A500+ went on sale, that was what made me ponder it. It's not something I think about much now, what with 128MB and WHDload.
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[alexh]

tonyyeb wrote:
How does the 2mb of RAM on the board get allocated into fast and chip at the moment?

It is hard coded in the MiniMig verilog source.

Looking at the source code MiniMig1.v and Gary.v MiniMig has 1Mbyte of ChipRAM and 512Kbyte FastRAM

I do not think this was a valid configuration in a REAL A500 without a Fatter Agnus, but probably the Fatter Agnus had other features not yet implemented in MiniMig.

[freqmax]

It's not "allocated". The HDL code simple define memory ranges and interpretate certain areas of the memory as a specific type of memory.

[tonyyeb]

alexh wrote:

tonyyeb wrote:
How does the 2mb of RAM on the board get allocated into fast and chip at the moment?

It is hard coded in the MiniMig verilog source.

Looking at the source code MiniMig1.v and Gary.v MiniMig has 1Mbyte of Chip and 512Kbyte of SlowFast RAM.

I do not think this was a valid configuration in a REAL A500 without a Fatter Agnus, but probably the Fatter Agnus had other features not yet implemented in MiniMig.

So does that make the Wikipedia page incorrect!?  :-o  Who'd have thunk it!