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Quote from the website:

ACube Systems is pleased to announce the availability of MiniMig motherboards based on the famous Dennis van Weeren project (version 1.1).

The fully assembled motherboard will be available mid-january directly from ACube Systems and later from other resellers too. The prices and bundles will be announced in the upcoming days.

The MiniMig features an FPGA re-implementation of the A500 chipset with a real 68000 processor onboard and connectors for real Amiga compatible joystick and mouse as well as a PS2 one and a VGA monitor that accepts 31Khz output.

To run the MiniMig it is necessary to copy on a SD memory card a 1.3 ROM that can be legally obtained from Cloanto's Amiga Forever package (www.amigaforever.com).

To order your MiniMig contact ACube Systems at info@acube-systems.com.

Let the myth live again!

http://www.acube-systems.com/eng/news.php?id=20

And yes, i want one !!!!!

The homepage seems to be down. But this is definitely relevant to my interests!

Also:

I spoke last year with Dennis at Codex/Horde party and the project is definitely cool as well as total madness. I hope it comes together with a book explaining the whole development process :)

MiniMilk > MiniMig

Do it yourself:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig
Original Homepage: http://home.hetnet.nl/~weeren001/

Finally a version where the assembly manual doesnt start with "warm up your soldering iron"

# Processor: 16Mhz MC68SEC000
# RAM: 2Mbyte 45ns SRAM
# VGA port

Where do they see an A500 ?

It's just the A500 chipset in FPGA, CPU etc could have been anything, last i heard he was looking into AGA too, maybe Dixan knows more on that though? it's just something i roughly remember reading on amiga.org months ago.

It has an FPGA.
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/prod_brief/MC68SEC000.pdf the processor.
The only bad part about it is the price and not having and USB port (even if it is supposed to be an amiga clone)

Also VGA output probably means no 50hz.

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Haha, this is awesome...
I'm totally buying one.

And perhaps using it to create an Amiga 500 laptop? :P

fpga hardware "emulation" rather than software emulation through WinUAE?

whats all the fuss about. if you want an Amiga laptop, buy a cheap laptop from eBay and install WinUAE.

and ok, so it has a real 68k chip...wow. the 68k didnt make the Amiga, its custom chips did. thats why the Atari ST is just a generic 68k motherboad compared to the Amiga :))) ;P

hmm, I respect Denis for his fpga skills though. it is the ultimate project without a doubt. just have no interest in actually buying.making one

Hum. No PAL modes makes it pretty useless. One of the biggest problems with WinUAE is its inability to produce proper 50 Hz video since most PCs don't sync that low. If you don't address that when making a hardware clone I think you've missed something.

Being based on an fpga makes it more useful than an emulator. If all you want is an amiga environment the emulator should be the better (and cheaper, since legaly you still have to buy the rom, and we all have a good enough pc to run winuae (or other uae for you linux freaks)!).

I think, modifying WinUAE to run without an operating system so you could boot directly into it, or maybe port it for a tiny Linux kernel or something, and then installing that on a PC with S-Video or PAL-RGB output hooked up to a good 4:3 flat screen TV with high resolution and a native 50 Hz mode, that would be useful. ;)

Also useful would be a speed-limit option for the JIT emulation so you could approximate the performance of a real CPU.

The Amiga-in-a-chip thing is a cool hobby project, but I don't see how it's more "useful" than software emulation.

A 16 Mhz A500 is something I had wet dreams about once upon a time. There was always those überexpensive turbocards but nothing that a mere mortal could afford.

"more useful"? in what way?

I think a lot of people get carried away with the idea of fpga based "reproductions" because they dont really know what fpga is. the minimig's Amiga chips are NOT clones, they are programs on a chip that simply simulate the chips. the result is pretty much exactly the same as running an emulation program in volatile RAM on any old PC/laptop.

if people DO understand this, then why exactly they are getting so excited about the MiniMig I'm not sure. If - as Battle droid said - it at least output a Pal/RGB signal I could understand. lack of 50 vsync in winuae is a real pain

I think the X-Amiga linux kernel does this, I haven't tried it myself but I've heard it's pretty good. should make emulation on an el-cheapo laptop more than possible :)

http://www.xamiga.net/about.html

"more useful" as in you can code some custom hardware (and skip the amiga part of the system). You have a VGA port and stereo sound output.

And of course that price you can almost get a PS3... that's countless times more powerful... and it runs linux.

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