I just read in Amiga Future new Minimig- plus coming out

[mcbone]

I just read in Amiga Future new Minimig- plus coming out

The planned minimig+ fpga board.

it get 32 mbyte ram, two sd-card readers, 8 mbyte chip ram, Dragonball -supervz processor and AGA core, of coures, will be a big improvement over its predecessor.

inside Amiga Future photo of it...


 and their new raspberry pi out to

[polyp2000]

I just read in Amiga Future new Minimig- plus coming out

The planned minimig+ fpga board.

it get 32 mbyte ram, two sd-card readers, 8 mbyte chip ram, Dragonball -supervz processor and AGA core, of coures, will be a big improvement over its predecessor.

inside Amiga Future photo of it...


 and their new raspberry pi out to

Sounds fantastic - any benchmarks?
and where do i send my money?

Also - it looks like thats what the mysterious File #3 is on their homepage :http://www.acube-systems.biz/

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[wawrzon]

doesnt look like its any soon, but then there is mist and fpga-arcade should be available some day for wider audience, i think performance wise this all remains on similar level, so no need to hold your breath.

[Duce]

Onboard ethernet?

[polyp2000]

doesnt look like its any soon, but then there is mist and fpga-arcade should be available some day for wider audience, i think performance wise this all remains on similar level, so no need to hold your breath.

I'm interested in the role of the Dragonball - i was under the impression that it couldn't be used as a drop-in replacement for a normal 68k chip due to differences in the instruction set. If this is the case - how have they circumvented that ? If not - then how come no-one has designed an accelerator around one yet? Its an interesting design and although it might not be that nippy its definitely a step forward and the addition of the AGA core makes it a very interesting proposition indeed. (Partly the reason I didnt get an original Minimig was that this was missing).

[matthey]

I'm interested in the role of the Dragonball - i was under the impression that it couldn't be used as a drop-in replacement for a normal 68k chip due to differences in the instruction set. If this is the case - how have they circumvented that ? If not - then how come no-one has designed an accelerator around one yet?

Dragonball should have good 68k compatibility on the Amiga. I believe the MOVE from SR instructions was made privileged and addressing may need to be 32 bit clean but these have been assumed since an early stage of Amiga development (although programs like M$'s AmigaBasic didn't follow the standards and probably fails). The ISA enhancements should be very compatible (old 68000 software knows nothing about them). The biggest problem with Dragonball is it's weak in performance despite clock speeds up to 66MHz. It's a specialized processor designed for low power consumption. The TG68 fpga CPU is giving 68030 performance at a similar clock speed in the fpga Arcade. The Phoenix fpga CPU may give 10x or more the performance of the 66MHz Dragonball in an affordable fgpa. IMO, Dragonball is not competitive in 68k performance for an accelerator and it's no longer in production. The advantage it has is that it is cheap.

Its an interesting design and although it might not be that nippy its definitely a step forward and the addition of the AGA core makes it a very interesting proposition indeed. (Partly the reason I didnt get an original Minimig was that this was missing).

Most AGA software needs the 68020 ISA. MiniMig was an important step in Amiga fpga development but the next generation Amiga fpga hardware is the way to go for 68020+AGA compatibility, IMO.

[gunni]

I just read in Amiga Future new Minimig- plus coming out

The planned minimig+ fpga board.

it get 32 mbyte ram, two sd-card readers, 8 mbyte chip ram, Dragonball -supervz processor and AGA core, of coures, will be a big improvement over its predecessor.

inside Amiga Future photo of it...


 and their new raspberry pi out to

Minimig plus sneaked into acube's page in a press release last December:
"About ACube Systems srl: ACube Systems srl is the designer and developer of the Sam440, Sam460 and AmigaOne 500 computer systems, as well as the Minimig and now the Minimig Plus."
http://acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=news[url]
I think there have been a couple of previous threads about it on here too.
No indication of a release date yet then?

Minimig+ thread - [url]http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67142