Help starting with Minimig v1.1

lolafg · 23 April 2010, 19:19

hello ,

just got my Minimig 4mb from Amigakit today , but now i need your help to start playing.

In my SD card i must put a firmware : minimig1.bin , ok but wich one ?

All the minimig1.bin i tried gave me...nothing so i'm blocked here , you must know that i'm discovering this machine and it is totally new for me...

Help me please , i'm really lost .

Thanks in advance !!

Allen1 · 23 April 2010, 19:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by lolafg

hello ,

just got my Minimig 4mb from Amigakit today , but now i need your help to start playing.

In my SD card i must put a firmware : minimig1.bin , ok but wich one ?

All the minimig1.bin i tried gave me...nothing so i'm blocked here , you must know that i'm discovering this machine and it is totally new for me...

Help me please , i'm really lost .

Thanks in advance !!

Hi there M8,

have you also got the kick rom on your SD card and the games you wish to play in ".adf" form>

lolafg · 23 April 2010, 19:53

At the moment yes for kick.rom but no adf.

Allen1 · 23 April 2010, 20:19

Your Minimig should boot up and allow you to select a game once you put some on the card, the games are all over the place and should be 880k in size for each disk. My Minimig is the rev 1.1 version and if you get stuck for the right bin file, I will PM you the one I am using (there is probably a newer version out by now though).

lolafg · 23 April 2010, 21:01

Will try again but would be cool if you could PM me the right one.

Thanks in advance.

FOL · 23 April 2010, 21:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by lolafg

hello ,

just got my Minimig 4mb from Amigakit today , but now i need your help to start playing.

In my SD card i must put a firmware : minimig1.bin , ok but wich one ?

All the minimig1.bin i tried gave me...nothing so i'm blocked here , you must know that i'm discovering this machine and it is totally new for me...

Help me please , i'm really lost .

Thanks in advance !!

Did you order an SD card with it?
If so, all you need is the kickstart rom, to boot.

If oyu didnt get the SD card from us, give me a shout and Ill try and get you the correct minimig1 file. Other than that I will have send it to you monday.

lolafg · 23 April 2010, 21:11

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Originally Posted by FOL

Did you order an SD card with it?
If so, all you need is the kickstart rom, to boot.

If oyu didnt get the SD card from us, give me a shout and Ill try and get you the correct minimig1 file. Other than that I will have send it to you monday.

hello , i didn't get the Sd card from you .

Allen1 · 23 April 2010, 21:49

PM sent

There are a couple of adf's in the zone, maybe ok to test things out.

lolafg · 23 April 2010, 21:56

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Originally Posted by Allen1

PM sent

There are a couple of adf's in the zone, maybe ok to test things out.

Pm replied but red screen saying : Incompatible PIC firmware!

FOL · 23 April 2010, 22:10

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Originally Posted by lolafg

Pm replied but red screen saying : Incompatible PIC firmware!

In the zone.

Heres a link to post that tells you whats in it.

http://www.minimig.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=272

lolafg · 23 April 2010, 22:16

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Originally Posted by FOL

In the zone.

THANK YOU IT'S WORKING NOW

FOL · 23 April 2010, 22:20

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Originally Posted by lolafg

THANK YOU IT'S WORKING NOW

Just dont expect the HDD to be fast, I have a test setup with a 20MB Boot HDD and a 3GB Games HDD. Takes forever to read dirs, So I just boot with no startup and cli whdload, still have to wait about 2 to 5 mins for it to load,

.

lolafg · 23 April 2010, 23:10

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Originally Posted by FOL

Just dont expect the HDD to be fast, I have a test setup with a 20MB Boot HDD and a 3GB Games HDD. Takes forever to read dirs, So I just boot with no startup and cli whdload, still have to wait about 2 to 5 mins for it to load,

.

Thanks again , will have to learn how to use the hdd...

I have an hdf file with Classic workbench for 3.1rom, i copied it to the SD card , enabled master hdd , selected "system.hdf"(my hdf file) , enabled ide A600 but couldn't boot on my hdf file , i'm surely doing something wrong , could you help me again with that ?

Thanks.

FOL · 24 April 2010, 11:33

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Originally Posted by lolafg

Thanks again , will have to learn how to use the hdd...

I have an hdf file with Classic workbench for 3.1rom, i copied it to the SD card , enabled master hdd , selected "system.hdf"(my hdf file) , enabled ide A600 but couldn't boot on my hdf file , i'm surely doing something wrong , could you help me again with that ?

Thanks.

They are tricky to get working.

You need to enable the hdf with an RDB, without the RDB it will refuse to work.

lolafg · 24 April 2010, 13:11

Thanks , but what is RDB ?

FOL · 24 April 2010, 17:09

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Originally Posted by lolafg

Thanks , but what is RDB ?

Rigid Disk Block. Its the bit of the drive that tells it what it is and how it works, where the filesystem lives etc etc.

In WinUAE, just create a new HDF, then select it as normal but press the Enable RDB button. This will make it have an RDB, then load workbench and partition it as though it were a real HDD.

lolafg · 24 April 2010, 17:38

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Originally Posted by FOL

Rigid Disk Block. Its the bit of the drive that tells it what it is and how it works, where the filesystem lives etc etc.

In WinUAE, just create a new HDF, then select it as normal but press the Enable RDB button. This will make it have an RDB, then load workbench and partition it as though it were a real HDD.

Thank you , will try that tomorow

lolafg · 04 May 2010, 06:48

thank you Fol , could get a workbench and whdload working !!
Next step ,install classic workbench !!

Thanks again for your help

23 April 2010, 19:19	#1
lolafg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tours/France Age: 52 Posts: 1,233	Help starting with Minimig v1.1 hello , just got my Minimig 4mb from Amigakit today , but now i need your help to start playing. In my SD card i must put a firmware : minimig1.bin , ok but wich one ? All the minimig1.bin i tried gave me...nothing so i'm blocked here , you must know that i'm discovering this machine and it is totally new for me... Help me please , i'm really lost . Thanks in advance !!

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23 April 2010, 19:53	#3
lolafg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tours/France Age: 52 Posts: 1,233	At the moment yes for kick.rom but no adf.

23 April 2010, 20:19	#4
Allen1 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Blyth England Age: 68 Posts: 786	Your Minimig should boot up and allow you to select a game once you put some on the card, the games are all over the place and should be 880k in size for each disk. My Minimig is the rev 1.1 version and if you get stuck for the right bin file, I will PM you the one I am using (there is probably a newer version out by now though).

23 April 2010, 21:01	#5
lolafg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tours/France Age: 52 Posts: 1,233	Will try again but would be cool if you could PM me the right one. Thanks in advance.

23 April 2010, 21:49	#8
Allen1 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Blyth England Age: 68 Posts: 786	PM sent There are a couple of adf's in the zone, maybe ok to test things out.

24 April 2010, 13:11	#15
lolafg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tours/France Age: 52 Posts: 1,233	Thanks , but what is RDB ?

04 May 2010, 06:48	#18
lolafg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tours/France Age: 52 Posts: 1,233	thank you Fol , could get a workbench and whdload working !! Next step ,install classic workbench !! Thanks again for your help

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