Minimig released for real!

[straycat]

According to the website today the Minimig has been released!

http://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/index.php

[Krusher]

Someone made a booboo and released the info a day early  :-D

[IslDreamer]

Please pardon my ignorance, but I just returned to the Amiga scene a couple of weeks ago.  What exactly does the Minimig offer? What OS and software can be run on it?  What kind of case would it fit in? :-?

[Jiffy]

Check this.

[IslDreamer]

That helped, but it's still a bit too technical for me.

Will this run OS4 Classic?  If it's emulating an A500, is it powerful enough to run the newer OS? And how would you use older disk-based software?  

[WotTheFook]

No, it just is a reverse engineered vanilla OCS A500.

[redrumloa]

IslDreamer wrote:
That helped, but it's still a bit too technical for me.

Will this run OS4 Classic?  If it's emulating an A500, is it powerful enough to run the newer OS? And how would you use older disk-based software?  

No OS4, that requires a PowerPC accelerator. Think of the minimig as nothing more than a really small and flexible Amiga 500, nothing more, nothing less. Games are played from a MMC flash card, using disk images (.adf). Many older games have been released into the public domain as ADF. If you own an original floppy, it will not work on the minimig. However finding a backup in ADF form online is quite easy.

[Darrin]

Shame there's nobody in the USA selling them.  I've emailed Acube to see about ordering one.

Actually, I emailed them last earlier this month for a price and git a replt and then emailed them again to ask about cases and how to pay and got nothing but silence.  I've emailed yet again and hopefully I'll get a reply...

[IslDreamer]

Thanks guys, that is very helpful.

So what's the advantage of something like this vs. running classic games and software in an emulated environment like WinUAE/AmigaForever? At least in the latter, you can emulate much higher-end machines.

I guess I fall into the camp that really appreciates and looks forward to running the classic machines (I just bought an A4000D a couple of weeks ago), but I expect any new hardware to help move the platform into the 21st century. (If only the warring companies controlling its future would get out of the way).

[HenryCase]

IslDreamer wrote:
So what's the advantage of something like this vs. running classic games and software in an emulated environment like WinUAE/AmigaForever?

Geeky coolness of the hardware, and encouraging future commercial Minimig development. Also, not really an advantage but, the Minimig can be expanded to emulate other computer and consoles systems (especially those based on 68k processors, lots of systems with this processor).

[Andeda]

How many of you are going to buy one from acube?

[MaDDuck]

Ahhhh....

But the million dollar question:

While running an interlaced screen outputting to the VGA port, can we still get the eyeball-itching interlace flicker???

and can a HDD be added to make it runnable as an Amiga instead of just an .adf player?

[Krusher]

The Minimig has an onboard Flicker Fixer / Scandoubler

There's no IDE port yet so no, you can't hookup a harddrive.

[MaDDuck]

Krusher wrote:
The Minimig has an onboard Flicker Fixer / Scandoubler

There's no IDE port yet so no, you can't hookup a harddrive.

awesome!!
So the flicker will still be there then?

oh well....

[Krusher]

MaDDuck wrote:

Krusher wrote:
The Minimig has an onboard Flicker Fixer / Scandoubler

There's no IDE port yet so no, you can't hookup a harddrive.

awesome!!
So the flicker will still be there then?

oh well....

Actually, no flicker since Minimig has an Amber implementation.