22 February 2010, 21:28 | #41 |
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thats a lot of chip ram
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22 February 2010, 21:35 | #42 |
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I have WHDLoad running on my A600 and it's fine But my A600 has 2mb chip and 2mb fast ram installed... Which helps alot Some games still take a while to load though.
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22 February 2010, 23:01 | #43 |
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My old A500 had a fair amount of Ram as well (and an 020 accelerator)
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22 February 2010, 23:33 | #44 |
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i confirme it
whdload can run on 68000. but some interesting features are not supported (VBR relocation, mmu,...) and is better to have some extra-memory... of course games using 68020's code (or better) can't be run... |
23 February 2010, 08:37 | #45 |
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It's getting clearer, I think... I hope
Still what about screen handling? can it be, or will it be fixed? it's too pc-ish, at least for my eyes... On the other hand, if I want to buy a board, how can I do it to get the most out of it, with the less problems? (like an average user.) I don't want to have trouble with firmwares, etc. Or Acube delivers them with the latest firmware? |
23 February 2010, 08:55 | #46 |
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The FPGA on MiniMig v1.1 PCB from Acube is reportadly too small for Yaqube's new AGA core.
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23 February 2010, 12:10 | #47 |
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It just seems the Minimig costs far too much to even consider buying over a real A1200... It still seems to be in the beta development stages after reading all the pros and cons and to me it's not worth the money
And if people go on about it's small size then why not just buy an A600... it's small and has the keyboard + floppy drive built in along with a real ECS chipset. It's also easy to add a hard drive/CF card/ram expansion... All this will be cheaper to buy than a complete (but crippled) Minimig |
23 February 2010, 12:23 | #48 |
Has the Amiga bug again
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The new fpgarcade should make things more appealing with the selection of systems to choose from along with the enhanced Amiga capabilities over the Minimig.
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23 February 2010, 13:25 | #49 |
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Cool but too expensive.... You can buy a new A1200 for less! (okay maybe a bit more if you decide on a non-stock system).
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23 February 2010, 14:01 | #50 |
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Do we have a price?? I've not seen one mentioned? Link please if someone wouldn't mind!
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23 February 2010, 15:59 | #51 | |
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Price always was an issue with Amiga HWs, I clearly remember. in the golden era my Amiga 500 was available for 46000 HUF. 6 yrs later, my salary was 24000 HUF (!) Fresh hw, nice design, good features. and if once it will be available with direct order w/ all the features what an Amigan needs, it will worth the money. Awaiting the moment when there will be some additional connectors, like ethernet, and so on. Just that screen flickering issue...:P |
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23 February 2010, 16:15 | #52 | |
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New and unused (may have been around for 16 years but still new and untouched to me ) |
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23 February 2010, 16:28 | #53 |
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So more than a decade old but unused electronic components versus dozen of months old stuffs. I have a nice collections with original hw, but luckily mostly all operates in acceptable manner. Severe Amigas have been rebuilt by me, recently I'm working on 2 Amiga 500s. Dead A1200 DF0, dead A4000 sound, strange failure on my third A4000 mobo, etc. I'd like to see some refreshing air in this line, and Minimig is a good alternative.
Not perfect yet, but good. Till we can have Natami, for example. Hopefully it will deliver it's promises. |
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Then again why bother when we have WinUAE..... too many bloody options! |
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I was surprised to see some AGA games running, but apparently those games didn't use any 68020 specific instructions. I wonder how common that is? It's definitely an interesting project to watch.. (edit) also, the price bit.. Of course, there are no prices yet.. I have seen the number 200 Euros in a forum as a possible ("should be under" kind of quote). That sounds like a fair amount, but when you compare it to an accelerated Amiga 1200 with lots of RAM and VGA output, that's pretty comparable... desiv |
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Add to that, DVI output (So you can convert it to HDMI) for HDTV setup. |
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I meant a scandoubler for VGA for the Amiga. I don't consider that little dongle for going to VGA, but only to use the double modes as an upgrade.. :-) desiv |
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Also you will be able to attach a daughter-board if you want more power...eg a real 68030 or even a 68060. When they perfect the soft-cores, I think they plan to produce a new faster board with just the sorted softcores This thing gets more and more interesting. I think we might have something very 'Natami' like in our hands by the end of the year Last edited by NovaCoder; 01 March 2010 at 04:42. |
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You will most likely die of old age waiting for the Natami. Minimig v2 is more likely... although I would like to think one of us will win the lottery so we can self-fund an old ex-Commodore employee (Dave Haynie) to build something for us
Dave would probably build a new Amiga from the ground up for $500,000 call it the Amiga 500++ and just acts a drop in board |
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