Minimig user feedback required

[tonyyeb]

If hardfile support was added (with maybe better file sorting / folder support) I would buy a Minimig.

[KimmoK]

Is the serial port of the minimig usable as A500 serial port?

(So one could connect minimig&A500 or two minis to play stunt car racer and other games over serial connection.)

[tonyyeb]

Oh my! Me and my brother used to do that.

[straycat]

Thanks Darrin - just seen the link in this thread

[straycat]

Thanks for the link Yaqube, I'll check it out!

[straycat]

KimmoK wrote:
Is the serial port of the minimig usable as A500 serial port?

(So one could connect minimig&A500 or two minis to play stunt car racer and other games over serial connection.)

I haven't used the serial port for games, but I'm guessing it works - I've used it for Amiga Explorer - see my site: http://www.loftcat.org.uk/minimig/help.html ("Saving files on your Minimig" - the page needs updating as we now have write support!)

[yaqube]

@mahen

1) subdirectories support (not necessarily alphabetically sorted)

Possible but not present in the upcoming release.

2) second floppy disk

Already done.

3) a better compatibility (I spotted some issues, for instance : in the shoot them up level of Jim Power, parallax scrollings are not displayed properly, or in demos like Arté/Hardwired/Desert Dreams)

I have fixed some small incompatibilities in the CPU and blitter timings but there is still many others to fix. This won't happen soon.

4) would it be possible to add an option to map the joystick to arrow keybs / numeric pad (as in UAE) : this would be useful with defective pads, or to use the Minimig with the X-Arcade joystick (PS2 joystick on which the keyboard is plugged)

Possible and should be implemented in the future.

5) some other GFX filters maybe ? (like scanlines)

I have thought about this already. Scanlines are easy to implement so might be added soon.

6) an option (without the need for jumpers) to set the CPU to 14 Mhz

There is an option to set the CPU speed to turbo mode. The CPU is clocked at 28MHz and now I'm working on the sideband memory interface to allow it to run at full speed (no waitstates). This should work on Minimigs with 55/45 ns memory chips but hasn't been tested yet.

7) an option to speed up the floppy accesses

Already done but the PIC and CPU speeds are limiting factors. Although using the ARM and CPU turbo mode the floppy transfer rate is doubled.

[ about what I wrote in another thread : would it be possible for the minimig to output a more standard screen resolution, like 800x600 instead of 720x576, not to get some distortion with some screens, like mine ]

I tried to implement this but left it since it requires some kind of a genlock to sync with the line frequency. Maybe I will think about it again since I've been toying with an idea of similar flicker-fixer for my A4000 (the Picasso IV built-in FF doesn't work very well with most of  LCD monitors).

[whiteb]

Good to see you are still working on things Yaqube

In Minimig's present state, with current hardware/board design, the only thing that *REALLY* needs to be added, is double floppy image support to sut down on the image swapping.

The other thing I owuld like to see, but due to the closed nature of Caps/SPS will not likely see it, is IPF support.

[Illuwatar]

I would be happy if you could make the AD724-corefix available so I can use it with my Mini-ITX MiniMig. I also plan to put 10ns SRAM on some of my MiniMigs, so that memory optimization could have an option for that too.

[detz]

At the mo, I use my Amiga (Well, an emulated one via WinUAE) so for me to be interested, it would need either hard drive support, or at least emulated via CF card or similar (would that be a relieble way of doing it? Ie would that be suitable for multiple writes etc?) So basically this, and the ability to output high (at least 1280x1024) screenmodes to a monitor, and I'd be able to use a minimig to replace the PC I use to run winUAE.

[alexh]

yaqube wrote:
The Picasso IV built-in FF doesn't work very well with most of LCD monitors.

How do you mean?

[Atheist]

NOT that the Minimig isn't really, really great, but for it to be ULTRA useful....

The Minimig, for me to buy, I'd want the full 8 Megs fast, 2 Megs chip ram. And also; 2 telephone jacks (RJ25?) with 56K modems. That way you can make a lan, of sorts, AND it could be a BBS/information terminal kiosk type device. (Imagine if it had a colour screen???)


The impossible?

Expand chip ram to 4 or even 8 megs!

Another thing, does Bluetooth work with it? (I don't know all the in/out puts.)

Does it have a NTSC flicker fixer?

I mean, this could basically replace my A2000!

I don't know all the connectors on a Minimig, but could this work?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/30170
:-D :-D :-D :-D

[tonyyeb]

@Atheist

You are joking right?

[Atheist]

Hi tonyyeb,

I don't see a joke in what I wrote. Which part is making you laugh?

What's easier to carry around, wield and plug in, a telephone wire, or a 25 pin RS232 cable?

[tonyyeb]

Ok, now I know you are joking.

[Atheist]

I'm not joking about any of the things I've listed that I'd like in a Minimig.