Minimig+MorphOS (work in progress)

[SysAdmin]

News from agranlund via Morphzone


If anyone is interested, I thought I'd share the progress of my latest ongoing pet project for MorphOS.
While  UAE works fairly well on my Mac mini I bought a Minimig with the intent  of controlling it from MorphOS (as if it were a daughterboard).

It  is still very early days. So far all pieces can communicate and I have a  simple MorphOS application which controls the system and feeds it with  mouse/keyboard/joystick data.
(Thanks BSzili and Kelly Samel for help with Xbox360 controller code on MorphOS!)

Here is a movie of the work in progress:
http://youtu.be/PABMGhbiElY


The  goal is of course to eventually have the MorphOS host also do the file  serving to remove the need of putting disk images on the Minimig SD  card.
The long term goal is to be able to simply double-click an ADF  to have it launch on the minimig as a seamless experience just like if  it had launched in UAE


Cheers,
--Anders

[XDelusion]

This project is very cool! Also I think being able to launch a virtual system by double clicking a Hard Drive image would also be useful to no end.
 It has always boggled my mind why no one has attempted to put an Amiga clone on a standard PCI card with serial output ports (for midi) has never been done.

[Matt_H]

It has always boggled my mind why no one has attempted to put an Amiga clone on a standard PCI card with serial output ports (for midi) has never been done.

It was, but it looks like it never made it out the door.

A real shame. I remember being incredibly excited about Index Information's products, especially the Access, waiting for them to be released. Apparently, the Access *was* released, but that news didn't make it into the English-speaking parts of the world. If it had, I imagine the sales would have been phenomenal, easily providing the funding to complete the Inside Out and the Boxer.

[XDelusion]

Agh man, what a bunch of crap! That pains me to see those photos and to know that such a thing never made it to the masses.
And to think how many times I have been blasted in the past just for commenting on the idea that someone should do something like that.
Well at least it looks that there are a few here that see sanity in a project such as this. Forget emulation!

It was, but it looks like it never made it out the door.

A real shame. I remember being incredibly excited about Index Information's products, especially the Access, waiting for them to be released. Apparently, the Access *was* released, but that news didn't make it into the English-speaking parts of the world. If it had, I imagine the sales would have been phenomenal, easily providing the funding to complete the Inside Out and the Boxer.

[magnetic]

It was, but it looks like it never made it out the door.

A real shame. I remember being incredibly excited about Index Information's products, especially the Access, waiting for them to be released. Apparently, the Access *was* released, but that news didn't make it into the English-speaking parts of the world. .

IIRC The Access a1200 clone project was designed for a large commercial client looks like the deal never really went through. Kind of an stb kind of deal. I actually have used one of them Jason Compton was consulting on the project and he had one with him demoing it for devs at one of the usa amiga shows.

@ OP

Awesome. Pretty cool project. Though hopefully some day in this century the EAUE JIT will be done for os4 and we can have usable software emu on NG amigas.