MiniMig with AGA

[Louis Dias]

2 more weeks!

:-)

But seriously, even without "feature creep" these things take time.  Considering Commodore bailed in '93/94, you'd think patience would be the order of the day in this community...  

FYI: In a few weeks this thread will be 2 years old!

[logikstate]

Sure, im as patient as anything... just wondering if there are any more snippets of info... like that video, or anything really.

2 more weeks!

:-)

But seriously, even without "feature creep" these things take time.  Considering Commodore bailed in '93/94, you'd think patience would be the order of the day in this community...  

FYI: In a few weeks this thread will be 2 years old!

[mikej]

Testing going well, no problems yet apart from the audio connector being a bit close to the DVI connector which means you can't use really fat DVI cables. I've mounted the jack at a slight angle which helps. Right angle audio plugs also works.

I never received the production video, I'll chase it.

I'll get a video of the board running some demos up ASAP.
/Mike

[Karlos]

^_^

[guest6931]

Can't wait to see the demo!

[Darrin]

Testing going well, no problems yet apart from the audio connector being a bit close to the DVI connector which means you can't use really fat DVI cables. I've mounted the jack at a slight angle which helps. Right angle audio plugs also works.

It's the little things like that which make you go "Doh!"  

I'll get a video of the board running some demos up ASAP.
/Mike

Great stuff.  Thanks for the update Mike.

[freqmax]

Didn't think of that (tm) ;-)

[logikstate]

Thanks for the update Mike.

Would be great to see some videos

[mikej]

"Didn't think of that (tm) ;-) "

Not quite true, the decision to move the connectors and fit everything on the back was not taken lightly, and was modelled quite carefully.

It is a pain but not a real problem, especially as you can use the RCAs on the other board, or a right angle audio plug.

The only cable I have which doesn't fit is the DVI to HDMI cable which is about 2cm wider than the DVI connector

[Darrin]

"Didn't think of that (tm) ;-) "

Not quite true, the decision to move the connectors and fit everything on the back was not taken lightly, and was modelled quite carefully.

It is a pain but not a real problem, especially as you can use the RCAs on the other board, or a right angle audio plug.

The only cable I have which doesn't fit is the DVI to HDMI cable which is about 2cm wider than the DVI connector

What about using a DVI-DVI cable off the board and then plugging a DVI-HDMI cable into that?

As you say, right-angle RCA jacks are hardly a show stopper.  I have a bunch of old ones and I'm sure Radio Shack has enough of them to stretch around the world.  

[freqmax]

There are hundreds of things to get correct, and check in the project. Some things are bound to screw up, that's project-life
On the next board revision the plug(s) may be relocated provided its possibe route and space to put a new connector.

[Belial6]

I would still like to see a board where ALL of the connectors are cabled out, so that placement of the board in any case become extremely simple.

This board is a huge leap forward in making things easier though, so I am not complaining.  Not even a little.

I just have this nasty little habit of looking at what we have today, and thinking about how the next revision can be even better.

[freqmax]

Cabling out DVI and other high frequency connections might be hard to accomplish without signal degradation.

[Belial6]

OK, excuse my ignorance on this, as my electronics knowledge is ham fisted and brutish, so high frequency stuff would certainly be my undueing.

If cabling things out causes that much trouble, how is it that we can cable our screens out several feet from our motherboards without problems?  Often with adapters thrown in the mix...

[freqmax]

Every impedance alteration or significant cable length causes a bump in the signal path and thus deteriorates the signal. The less, the better.

[Belial6]

I get that, but when your already talking about a 3 to 6 foot cable, how much of a difference can an extra 3 inches make?

If cabling out the connector is going to make or bread a digital signal, there has to be more to it than cable length.  I am trying to understand what that is...