MiniMig the no bull thoughts on this device

[Darrin]

Where is a good place to get the ARM board from?
AmigaKit seems to have the MiniMig, and they do the 4MB upgrade, but not the ARM board.

aCube.

https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/6-minimig

[bbond007]

Where is a good place to get the ARM board from?
AmigaKit seems to have the MiniMig, and they do the 4MB upgrade, but not the ARM board.

says they have it in stock

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1132

[gaula92]

@Darrin: do you know if those 4MB Minimigs Acube is selling are 2MB ones with the piggyback 4MB mod, or do they have 4MB RAM chips on board?

[Darrin]

Frontier on the Minimig runs just as fast as an Amiga 1200 with a 030 running at 50mhz, I know this as I have compared the two side by side!
 
You'll love the minimig...  classic platform on modern hardware!

I agree.  Flight sims zip along on the Minimig with turbo mode engaged.

A Minimig with 4MB and ARM is like taking an A500+ and attaching:  68000 Accelerator, RAM card, HD interface with hard drive, 4 floppies, KS3.1 & 1.3 on a ROM switcher, Flicker Fixer and a PS2 mouse adapter.

The only thing you really lose is the parallel port, so anyone who wants to do some printing will need to rig up a serial link between the Minimig and a PC/Mac.

[Darrin]

@Darrin: do you know if those 4MB Minimigs Acube is selling are 2MB ones with the piggyback 4MB mod, or do they have 4MB RAM chips on board?

Sorry, I don't know.  I assumed they were piggybacked, but you might want to email aCube to check.

[AJCopland]

Cool thanks

[broken]

I'm ordering a Minimig in the next week or so and I am ordering it from aCube.

The 4 meg model is much cheaper from them rather than going through Amigakit. Plus they have the ARM boards where as I don't believe Amigakit does.

[ChaosLord]

I agree.  Flight sims zip along on the Minimig with turbo mode engaged.

I never realized that a plain old Minimig had high speed chipram!

Did anyone post bustest results of a 4MB Minimig in turbo mode?

As a game designer I like to know how fast the chipram is.

A lot of games could benefit from faster chipram.  Such as Dune 2, Stunt Car Racer and a lot of others.
 

A Minimig with 4MB and ARM is like taking an A500+ and attaching:  68000 Accelerator, RAM card, HD interface with hard drive, 4 floppies, KS3.1 & 1.3 on a ROM switcher, Flicker Fixer and a PS2 mouse adapter.

The only thing you really lose is the parallel port, so anyone who wants to do some printing will need to rig up a serial link between the Minimig and a PC/Mac.

Without the PAR: port you lose Joystick Port #3 and Joystick Port #4 so when ur friends come over to play 4 player games, they can't.

[bbond007]

I never realized that a plain old Minimig had high speed chipram!

Did anyone post bustest results of a 4MB Minimig in turbo mode?

I think the CHIP in Minimig 1.1 is 2X AGA in some tests I performed

I run my WB in 728x283x4BPP PAL which would run poorly on the real thing...

[bbond007]

Minimig with 4MB and ARM is like taking an A500+ and attaching:  68000 Accelerator, RAM card, HD interface with hard drive, 4 floppies, KS3.1 & 1.3 on a ROM switcher, Flicker Fixer and a PS2 mouse adapter.

I find its like having a A3000/25 speed wise its just annoying not having the 030 instruction set to go along with it

The 1.1 is a lot of fun, but I really need the fpga replay ASAP...

[ChaosLord]

I think the CHIP in Minimig 1.1 is 2X AGA in some tests I performed

I run my WB in 728x283x4BPP PAL which would run poorly on the real thing...

:roflmao:  "poorly".  It would run completely horribly slowly on a real A500!  I know, I tried it a few times.

But with superspeed chipram that changes things completely!

It also means that certain games, which would slow down when a lot of enemies were on the screen, could now be played fast and smooth.

[Darrin]

I find its like having a A3000/25 speed wise its just annoying not having the 030 instruction set to go along with it

The 1.1 is a lot of fun, but I really need the fpga replay ASAP...

Yep, the only limitations that affect me are the lack of AGA and the inability to run OS3.9.  However, I find the OS3.1 install of ClassicWB on my HDF more than satisfactory.

[bbond007]

Yep, the only limitations that affect me are the lack of AGA and the inability to run OS3.9.  However, I find the OS3.1 install of ClassicWB on my HDF more than satisfactory.

I really don't even use 3.9 on my 1200 with 060, so no major loss there.

really, the single biggest limitation with 1.1 is lack of option for ethernet.

also I'm kind of limited by the fact that my newer TVs don't work so well with 50HZ VGA PAL...

[Lord Aga]

Does Minimig output 50 or 60 HZ ?
Too bad about the parallel port really. No 4 player games...

EDIT:
Maybe my Hz question is a bit unclear.
Can Minimig be used with 60Hz TFT monitors ? Or do you need a 50Hz capable screen, like a LCD TV ?

[bbond007]

Does Minimig output 50 or 60 HZ ?

yes

50 for PAL and 60 for NTSC

[Lord Aga]

So what happens when you try to get PAL on a PC TFT monitor ?