A new Amiga Device that can run 3 different CPUs
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- E403: What if you could have a device that could run multiple 64 pin CPU types, a 68000 at 60 mhz, a PiStorm? or even a TerribleFire TF536 and more! well whip out that credit card. its time for another product review. of something new in 2023!
where can you get this?
www.minimig.ca
if no stock listed, click contact, then email the center link. Let them know you saw this video and would like to purchase one and there you go!
here is a link to the source files also
www.minimig.ca...
My poor credit card is already hurting from your previous videos.......
Hah you should see my paypal credit
Man we're truly blessed with all the amazing new hardware options available today to run the recently updated AmigaOS3.2.2🎉❤ Thanks for another great vid Doc🍻👍
Chris, you've emptied my wallet again!
There is a guy taking the source and working on something called MIGSTORM ITX, a lower cost version of the Minimig ITX spec. It is in testing now but for folks that complain about the price you could wait until someone makes a cheaper version. But thanks to these guys for making it happen in the first place.
I hate to sound like everybody else, but man, that’s sweet. I ordered one as well. I have a Mega Midget Racer 030 / 40 from back in the day. Can’t wait.
Also, just FYI I just got my ship notification on the Pistorm and Pi32 lite from your previous videos from Amiga kit.
Really looking forward to this, love the 15/30 KHz switch and support for the dip. Truly worth it and I can put this in a cool case to boot!
Thanks Chris…good stuff man.
I`ve done some clumsy emulation of beloved amigas to replicate / relive a few quick amiga experiences that I fondly remember.. and I`ve dreamed of having a set up like my old a1200 (and never got to use a4000 that i never actually got to use before having to sell).. this kit you`ve shown here Chris is absolutely beautiful, thanks .. I so want what you`ve shown.. I would definitely get back into serious amiga use with the kind of performance you`re doing here.. thanks, great vid, great kit.
My first PC was an Amiga 1000, I still love Amiga.
AMIGA HAD SOME GREAT VIDEO GAMES
Nice very nice. Once I dig myself out of my project pile, I will have to look into one of those to play with. Hey I am not into games either, but I have been known to play a game or two. I love having games on hand for the grandkids when they come visit. I am always amazed at how the old classic games generate interest with them.
I actually do intend to put one of these into a Checkmate case. Truth be told, I am a Amiga n00b. Never had the chance to use one back in the day, though I did lust after them when I learned about them back in the 90s.
Maybe I will add an original Amiga to my collection some day, but for the most part, I do want a modern version of one so I don’t have to worry about the pitfalls of running aging hardware. This seems like one of the better choices out there. I would actually prefer something like the EVO64 approach so that I could use original peripherals like disk drives, but I can live with this approach. I think this should give me an excellent “Amiga experience.”
That being said, I still need to learn a lot about using Workbench, setting up RTG, and all that stuff.
that is what Pimiga3 was created for.
I believe you meant an SD card - compact flash doesn't come in a micro format. Compact Flash is still used in some cameras and older devices like early millennium handhelds/laptops/netbooks & late, late 20th century computers with card readers for them.
This new board sounds awesome and I sure do miss my 1990s Amiga 500 and use to salivate over ads for 2000, 3000 and 4000 Amigas. Alas I was overcome by the build your own PC bug in the mid 90s and have rarely looked back till now! Thanks, this so cool!
AGA support and I'm sold 😊
Next one
A want this device with black solder mask instead of red, a true MiniNig
there are black blue and red available, i think there WAS 4 left or so
Aaaaaaand I’m glad I ordered mine a few days ago. 😅
Great video as always. All we need now is a Zorro slot on it and that will provide bigbox card support. Also I wonder how well the CPU’s would sell on their own. I would buy one.
me too!
Nice upgrades I just got the previous version at the begining of the year I'll upgrade when they get to a 2.0 version with hopefully ATX power connector only, case front panel header, Basic HDMI, and USB IDE and a floppy would be nice too but can't have everything Mabybe in a couple more revisions
great video i defo want one what an amazing bit of kit i love it thanks for review.
I am putting up a massive amount of Amiga stuff on ebay today. Video toaster, 2000 HD with turbo, editing decks and boxes of software and manuals.
what is your ebay seller name?
Yeah, what is your seller name? I'd like to see the listings, even if they are sold.
thanks chris. just ordered one.
what color?
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Red - because as you know anything in red - goes faster yeah. Good to see ENIG too.
Hì Ya & best wishes. SuperB. Thanks for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea.
As of now, they have at least 30 in stock. I wish I had this kind of money avaliable.
Paypal credit
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration ...and when the Treasury defaults on the debt in the next week- Debt erasure jubilee! (jk likely the opposite)
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration they didn’t comp you?
Chris,, THANK YOU for posting all of this amazing content. I just learned about the active Amiga community, and I'm blown away by all of the fun projects that are live. Now I'm looking for a 600 to tinker with.
Stupid nerd question: What would happen if you put the MiniMig MC68SEC000 processor on a real A500+ motherboard?
It would run at stock mhz due to the clock crystals on that board
I would love to see this board shaped as a drop in to an Amiga 500 case. If you have any influence with the manufacturer suggest it. I don't want to deal or build a Re-Amiga board. If they could shape their board, that would be great.
you can always write to Ranko at mimig.ca
this is an awesome board, def will consider getting one and sell my a500 for someone else to have fun with. I have my a1200 and having this as a modern unit to mess with would be more fun.
Or get
One and keep your amigas
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration not in this economy
Buffy? The Vampire Slayer? Having a 68000 at that speed should be awesome for games. Especially the ones I like. Simulation type games. Nice!
Like to see compatability . And with buffy 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Really Cool Hardware🤩👍🏻
Nice one!
68010 would be slightly better ;)
Also... I once thought of making a board with a ColdFire CPU running inside an Amiga....
A 3rd CPU would either be... 020/030 or 040/060 depending on which mobo to remake.
Long ago dreams....
maybe this (buffee 68k?) has the '010 and better reset mod that WHDLoad needs?
buffee is a 68000 snap in like a pistorm, but not a pistorm, just a emulated CPU 030/040 and ram. thats it. but it never came to be. there was a beta. but it never worked well, and required the testers (including myelf) to flash firmware that didnt work. or was not completed. so it went bye bye after a few years because the pistorm came along and squished it.
Looking forward to maybe a 2.x with maxed out RAM so that something other than Amiga's could be developed. Like an X16 type computer using a 68000 instead of the 6502/10. Very happy with my 1.91.
really the flicking video on the vga port is horrible, zero documentation is unacceptable. Severely outdated WIKI is useless for us new guys. The Mystr would have been better as it at least does AGA for $100 cheaper, and the forums on that projects are all over the place. I can't find squat on this crap. I give MiniMig 1/10 for ascetics and -1/10 for functionality, 0/10 thanks for playing.
And where do I stick my beloved Amiga floppy disks?🤔
Adf files on the sd card
Rob Smith (who created the DrawBridge adaptor to read Amiga disks using a PC drive) is working on an expansion board for the Minimig that has a floppy controller on it, so if you have an old external floppy drive from an Amiga you could plug it in to this - eventually.
Wow! What an Amazing development they have done there. I'm very tempted on getting one, but I didn't see that it is possible to handle an Amiga floppy drive or is there a way to read my Amiga diskette on this setup? Would be happy to have a pointer to how to read my old 880kb Amiga FFS formatted diskette.
I guess purple stuff went out of stock before video start and others were gone by the time we were watching how pistorm boots. :)
no you need to click the link in the contact and email them saying you saw this video and want one. i said it in the video. guess you didnt hear that part.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I've heard it. That comment was for youtube engagement. I won't bug minimig about it cause my retro is in programmable soviet calculators and import taxes to EU would probably be the third of the price.
Great review! Does this beauty support AGA? The website suggests it's a A500+ clone but I see some references elsewhere to MiniMig supporting AGA, although possibly unoffically? And does it support Picasso96 / RTG modes?
with a pistorm yes it can do RTG but again, you would need modepro or a second display to see both sides, even though it does 31 lhz, pistorm rtg is still out the hdmi of that pi. AGA is not yet implemented, like the MiSter its a 16/32 hybrid. pure aga needs 32bit, would love to see the 1200 cpu bus to support those accelerators
I got to have one of these..
It sounded like you said terrible fireworks 😂
Imagine getting the fullsize A500 from retrogames when it comes out, and replace the internals with this
ECS Denise's price is getting into the crazy stage.
Yeah but you could just 3D print a wedge case for a Mister and call it a day. The Mister clone coming out along with the Amiga keyboard replicas will be an amazing combo.
@19:42....what was that!! 😂
mona... shes in all my videos
Chris, WIll it run a Vampire V2 A500?
I figure probably not due to the location of the socket.
Maybe with the correct CPU relocator
Maybe going to test that next
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration please do! :)
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration will it also run a real 68000cpu at 7mhz?
@@alanhaynes4576 yes
This is AMAZING, as Renee Cousins Buffee kind of sort of disappeared for a long time. Does Renee know you use "Cold shower tug" in casual conversation??...lol, had to order one. Damn you.
(That has an ITX Power header too - right?)
Yeah man its great. Idk about the tug for her
Pin one on the dip does have a silk screen arrow pointing to the edge
ahh yes it does, SMALL but yes, the board does not though, or im so used to looking for that notch
just watching this and thinking, work in IT and often dispose of old pc's, does anyone do a bare metal amiga emulator. would an old i5/i7 be more powerful and cheaper than these brand new boards? lots of nice sff desktops with ssd's and lots of ram that get binned!! they also have vga\hdmi\dp.......
Check out my amithlon videos
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Without UAE, Amithlon doesn't run WHDLoad Amiga games. "who cares about games" - Bernd Meyer.
@ChrisEdwardsRestoration any update on the Vampire V2 working with the Minimix ITX board? I have got a piStorm and TF536 up and running, BUT I get a solid blue screen out of VGA when I attach a V2. Hopefully, I'm just doing something wrong and you have it figured out?!? Thanks.
Yeah needs a new core waiting on ranko
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration thanks for the quick response sir. Assuming it is being worked on from what you're saying, which is great news!
7:10 What is the Dell monitor model ? You correct yourself but I have no idea what you meant. Were you saying it's a Dell u2410f ?
Yes dell U2410-F
Just wondering how that CF card is mounted on top of the TF536 like that? Is that an updated version of the TF536? Since mine just has a pin header on the edge.
Its a angled cf to 44 pin ide connector from my amiga 1200. Amigakit and amigastore.eu and others sell them
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration thank you
Chris, Where do you connect a floppy or gotek please?
you use ADFs directly on the built in SD Card. no gotek needed, it is a Menu F12 function, I showed this on my other Minimig video
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration thanks Chris, sorry I must have missed that part. Lots of distractions lately. I really appreciate all of your work and help to everyone in the Amiga community.
When do you chaps think youll have the aga section ready for release?
I like this board,
One other question, does it have any usb sockets on there?
I run a 1200 with os 3.1.4 and a friend accelerator i borrowed while he gets his board fixed or replaced
well this one was 3 days old, there will be a 1200 AGA and a 4000AGA w floppy header, Zorro and AGA , a GIG of ram, USB for kb/mouse, Midi, and wifi via one of those little small boards on the main motherboard. - I should have one in a month or so once finalized.
Soooo.... you attach a hard drive and install AmigaOS 3.9? Or how is this supposed to work? Never heard of MiniMig.
uses either HDF files created on Winuae/AF or build your own w virtual floppies/cd images etc from the F12 menu. faster just to build a image on winuae and copy that hdf to the sd card, roms and all , boot away whatever you want, wanna swap to something else? put multiple dh0' images on there. or Pistorm or others use their own cf/sd images or you can use the internal sd card. many options. !
I would so love to have one, but wallet say no.... Kind of sad. 😔😔😔
Still cheaper than buying a real one
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration With import tax, vatt and everything.... It would cost me a total of 564 canadian dollars.
A fully working PAL 500 will cost me between 196 and 235 canadian dollars.
Yeah but if your in the uk a canadian dollar is only 50p
Where is the Hellraiser Cube screensaver from Linux or Windows? I have seen this in a few videos but I never asked.
it is part of Xscreensaver for linux. also on Pimiga3's linux side just disabled, you can enable it if you wish.
Chris, what Dell monitor did you use?
Dell U2410-F
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Getting better all the time.
Is Renee working on this for the Buffee or has the Buffee bled out?
Buffee? No no thats gone
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration so no 3ghz cpu for amiga? So sad.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I just looked and it appears to be still on the Buffee Home page and so on. What have I missed and what happened to the 68030 running at 1 GHZ?
Great video, info, Nice, but PS2 Mouse & Keyboard, no USB ?
Amiga can be adapted to run ps2 compatible stuff, no usb "yet" the new bootrom is epic, no more minimig load blue screens
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Well I have USB to PS2 Port Adapters here, about 10, maybe I will see if they work ..
I picked up a new MiniMig 1.97 after watching this vid. It works great with the shipped CPU. Unfortunately I can't get the PiStorm to boot Emu68 with either a Pi3A or a Zero 2 W. (Both are known good and boot Debian fine from different SD cards.) I get yellow screens in a loop all day. I can see the grey Emu68 screen over HDMI but it's just borked. I'll need to do more troubleshooting it seems.
You need to download the cores from the minimig website and rename the minimig1.bin to old and rename that new one to minimig.bin. Turn off the fastram in minimig only use 2mb chip. Save exit and it should work fine
@@ChrisEdwardsRestorationMuch thanks for the reply. I always love the vids. I followed your instructions exactly. Yellow brick road. I think this PiStorm board is just defective. I'm going to test it more in a 500 and a 2000. The soldering looks really questionable.
The real A500 from Commodore can run multiple CPUs. Amiga clones should duplicate similar capabilities.
well get on it!
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration My comments are for other standalone Amiga clones. Minimig VER 1.98itx's support for 68K CPU expansion is a good direction.
Amigas are not dead-end smart mobile phones and game consoles.
I'm still not clear on how a stock 16mhz 68EC000 can be clocked at 60mhz without overheating and with no heat sink or even a fan on it. Is this a special 68EC000?
Not stock, nor is it really that special; it's a repackaged MC68SEC000 (see that S in the middle of the part number) on a riser board. It has a MUCH smaller fab process, so a lot less heat dissipation.
@@actualjpStill, how can it run at 60mhz without self-destructing?
@JustWasted3HoursHere math and science. I have a 8mhz running at 40
Yeah so I’ve got a pi3A+ that gets powered up - on my network- everything plugged in right to MiniMig …. And flashing disk led but no screen anything … noticed you didn’t mention or used the fpga PiStorm core before switching out the MC68K.
I did.
I don’t have a bad π- it’s showing “started daily apt upgrade” on CLI . Prob messed up a step (did clear the ram on minimig - as mentioned @13:30)
😢
there is a core on the minimig ca site you rename to minimig1.bin and use it, the pi mesage is the linux operating system for it trying to update . are you using emu68 and your own image? or a caffeine thing
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I’ve tried emu68, mushashi 68K, and currently trying caffeineOS. There are 2 settings I’m a bit unsure about- PiStorm should work with a lot of kickstarts (tried 3.1.4,3.2 from the minimig SD), and the fpga minimig1 and minimig-68K PiStorm cores (did both). There’s even caffeineOS kicks in the list!
Nothing seems to work, and tried a piZero2W that I know works. These mSDs all worked on my A500 PiStorm. Think I’ll try another day. Thanks Dr C
For pistorm you need to f12 and turn off all the ram besides 2mb chip or it wont do anything and save your settings
? though: mine came with 2 cores (Stock, pistorm) on the MiniMig sd that you can select with F12-why do you have separate SD’s for the TF and π ?
@@drphilxr i did for the video so i didnt have to re name things on the fly,
i'd like to have one in green. also, there is a purple one. now i just need moneys
They sell all sorts of colors
Hi. Just found this video. Where is the Dell monitor repair video? Can't find it in the channel.
replacement, not repair, the 15khz side broke, now only the "modern" stuff works.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Is it this one: ua-cam.com/video/L4yQLKn55Zw/v-deo.html
@@peddersoldchap yup
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ta!
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration PS - Also, I have just subscribed!
Need this with four CPU and four Paula chips❤❤❤❤❤❤
9:20 What is this B2000? The 68000 is 7MHz but says it's you're .75% as fast as it is. What's up with that? Is that because the Mig is not running the correct 7.159MHz?
B2000 is another name for the A2000-B, the refresh of the A2000 but now based on the A500 instead of the older A1000
The speeds on the left only show the stock speeds of those systems and not the actual speeds (possibly a fault in Sysinfo 4.4, I don't know), but as you can see both of the 14Mhz machines don't match either and both of the 25Mhz machines don't match. I'm guessing that the 2000, 2500 and 4000 are overclocked versions of the 600, 1200 and 3000 respectively.
Hi Chris. I bought the Minimig on foot of your recommendation. It is expensive, but would be worth it if I could get it working properly. I only have an AOC monitor which will display the workbench screen but tells me the input is not supported. Also, none of my input devices work properly. My Amiga mouse wont move the cursor and I only have a USB mouse and keyboard to use through PS2 to USB adapters, but these don't work at all. So I have a display that I can't interact with. There is not much out there on setting up the Minimig. I would appreciate any help I can get. :)
thats weird, make sure your monitor dip switch on the board is in 31 khz, . you see a rom? but not workbench? maybe thats due to your monitors refresh rate? try resetting the monitor to default settings on its own buttons... The amiga mouse should work fine. make sure your in the correct ports ( the stacked ones not the db9 serial) one is mouse one is controller . keyboard is ps2, mice can be ps2 also. idk about adaptors. ps2 stuff is super cheap nowdays. i will help with what i can. you can always email Ranko at minimig.ca and he can provide more detailed documentation on what does what. pause my video around 2:03 where i show the scroll screen to see what the ports are listed as.
I have a 1 month update on my minimig purchase too: its an expensive, pretty, piece of junk.
Yes it has modern parts - but there's no easy way to get the SD card or CF card of a TF board out of any case (sd cable extenders don't work, timing issue).
There's no easy way then to get .adf's or hardfiles onto SD once you put it in case.
There's no networking/wifi.
so- all the modern amenities of a pistorm aren't found in this thing, which doesn't even seem to run "snappily" the same way using the TF card, compared to my A500!
Would *not* recommend this.
And there's no manual to be found (easily at least) anywhere on the site. Trying to figure out mobo headers with Dr Chris was the highlight of buying this...sheesh!
hmm, sorry you hate it, i personally love mine, i own 3 of them now. I have my own images with every whdload and tiny launcher , i copied pimigas repos to a card and dont need to adf or anything any games. not that i play alot anyway. i run the 68000 it comes with , then sometimes pistorm, ran Tf536 with its tf core for a while, but like you said, access to the card when inside a case can be tedious. but the same could be said for a computer, cant just easily take its hard disks out. remember its 1994 tech reproduced. its nice, and amazing that we even have it.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration there is a quirk using ps2 mice. I used the PS2 mouse RANKO recommended and it worked after a while but eventually developed a quirk. When plugged it the mouse will function for 10 seconds to an hour then eventually stop working. DB9 mouse won't work either. This holds true on the 1.8 and 1.97 boards. I guess you have to experiment with various ps2 mice. USB to PS2 converters won't work. Chris and Ranko really helped out with support on this I have two version 1.8 and 1.97. Aside from these quirks its good. A bit up there in price for what it is but still a nice board to run PISTORM and full ECS 2.mb chip RAM. For $289 I was able to get a refurb A1200 MB and pistorm 32 lite from Amiga Kit. It came 3 moths late but that's another story.
Mine work totally fine. Just a old hp ps2 mouse or a old server keyboard combo w a
Roller ball
How can I get in touch I have Amigas that need help 😢😢
Email me. Its in the about me
What about a Vampire?
Yes that will be next
Hello what about 68040 or 060 ? There are if i remember on appollo or blizzard's boards
In dip64? Never saw those
PPS (Progressive Peripherals & Software) 040-500 (68040) CPU accelerator card?
PiStorm-Emu68 self-reports as 68040.
Simple fact is amiga ocs/ecs is 7mhz and 3mhz rough to ram and chip set etc. The 68ec00 only runs at 60 when off the bus ! So its not runing at 60mhz all.the time, and its very overclockable chip easily x2 original speed with no effort, and with a very stable power rails it also makes overclocking the chip possible.
Minimig question ?
Does it support 1084 monitor ?
It say 15khz, but are voltages correct ?
Also.be good to see back of board ports please
All pics available on the minimig website
is it limited to 4gb hdf files due to fat file system?
Due to a 32 bit OS
only on the internal SD card, using a pistorm or TF card it can be whatever you wish
want one
Why do you have to change firmwares for the fpga? I missed why that would be needed. Isn’t it emulating the regular Amiga that just uses the socket and talks 68k?
Faster to rename a file then hook up a flasher. The xylinx has all the code for the amiga stuff that looks for the bin file on the sd card and your rom
@@ChrisEdwardsRestorationI get that, I just don’t understand why the fpga would need to change with the accelerator. Is the fpga doing more than just the ECS chips?
For example, when you put a TF card in a real Amiga, the rest of the Amiga isn’t getting reconfigured.
idk, theres different code needed to be run depending on how a pistorm loads its bootloader vs the TF cards. maybe that is a question for the minimig people,
Looks like all colors are out of stock :(
did you see what i said, click the contact/.email let them know you watched my video and want one.
Can’t I install the most recent amiga os on a regular pc build of today?
You can try but no the last official “thing” for x86 was Amithlon but that was circa 2000-2001 i have done videos on that also
Kind of strange that you only get just below 600 kilobyte/s in transfer rate. I have this RocHard RH800C sidecar Ram/HDD expansion, and on an otherwise stock 500 I get between 8,4 megabyte/s and 9,0 megabyte/s. Like what gives? Anyway.... I use a Dell 2410-something-something monitor as well, and mine can also take 15khz. And yes, they are totally awesomme monitors, as they have DVI and Display port as well. I use it on my daily drivers with Linux as well.
Pistorm gets
25+
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration True. But I still dont understand why an 68000 Amiga 500, stock mhz, with 512k chip and 8mb fast. Can do 8,4 to 9,0 megabyte a second. It is way more than my 1200 with tsunami 1230.
i was on a 7mhz config, when i go to the 60mhz its way faster. ive never gotten those speeds from a sidecar amiga500, even the fastest SD card is only 1.5mb stock if your lucky. yes scsi is faster than ide like the 1200 PIOmode0 card, but still
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration You can check it out in a video I have posted. But if I did a mistake in the setup, you a free to tell me so.
Problem that 68k is not produced.. This board emulating 68k?
not , its a real 68k and its on the board.
you can still get them
68000s are actually still being made as they find use in firmware applications. There might be one in one of your kitchen appliances.
So, why would you insist in keeping this old technology alive, (no offense just curious 🤨)
Why would anyone keep old cars alive? Or buy antique furniture?
When it comes to making new Amiga hardware, it’s partly because it’s actually possible without breaking the bank, and you are not sued by mega corps. If you were to build an ARM processor, you would need an expensive license.
Another part is nostalgia.
Its my hobby and passion. We all have our own.
Thank you very much all. Respect
@@el_apostata_sud Not to mention the fact that some of the best games in history came out on the Amiga. 😉
What happened at 16:23 ? :D
The 68SEC000 board should have 8MB of Fast RAM on board already.
Not this one
Guess it cannot on the 1.97 since it has 2 MB fast ram on the motherboard, it would have to be disabled somehow. Meh, so annoying… why can’t one get Minimig with real 68000 chip and 8MB fast ram??! Like my A500 has.
@@kowoba If you watch the video you can simply press F 12 and turn off any ram you need like I had to do when I’m out of the pistorm
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration do you have a GotToGoFastRam (8MB) for example, to test with?
@@kowoba no
Hey Chris, what is your feeling about these devices? To me this is not an Amiga. If you teleported back 35 years with this device in hand and showed it to any Amiga user I bet not a single person would know what it is. May as well just run an emulator on a Raspberry Pi to achieve similar results. My definition of an Amiga ends with a 68060 card in a real Amiga motherboard. Bit of a purist I guess.
This is a real 68000 all other chips are in fpga. This is the same as a mister. Pure hardware recreation in a fpga. but it works great, stable, and runs all sorts of things. games, demos, real cpu's, i want to test my Vampire next.
No nostalgia,just another blender board with an amiga sticker. Plenty of real Amigas out there still,shame people work so hard to get around using them. to each his own.
I have a few amigas. I run everything
This (or a future incarnation) is what we will all be using as real hardware when all the original real silicon eventually dies. So I'm thankful we have future proof replacement projects such as this.
Did you know 68060 translates CISC 68K instructions into RISC-like instructions like on Intel Pentium Pro or AMD K5 / K6 (RISC86) for X86?
No modern CISC CPU implements CISC CPU microarchitecture design i.e. classic Pentium was the last CISC design CPU. RISC won the CPU design wars and the X86 world has adapted RISC for its own needs.
FPGA Amiga ECS recreations are like clones of VGA for the original IBM VGA.
Motorola has licensed 68K designs to other 3rd parties, but none of the 68k cloners (e.g. Hitachi, Rockwell, Signetics, Thomson/SGS-Thomson, Toshiba) has design teams like AMD (NextGen), VIA (Cyrix, Centaur)/ Zhaoxin and DM&P Electronic (Rise Technology's Vortex86).
PS; Vortex86DX3 reached 1 Ghz dual core i686-compatible CPU configuration.
still waiting for buffee
I had a beta but accidently tossed it cleaning up my studio
Board for $350 sorry no... $159 maybe....$99 yes.
You also can get a mister fpga for the same price. Both are basically fpgas anyway, not sure if 350 is it worth it just to run amiga software!
Yeah, I never understood the infatuation with expensive hardware recreations of classic Amigas that still perform like it's 1992. Emulation on modern hardware is the way to go. Last time I checked, WinUAE is free software. The guy in this video says this new board can outperform an A3000. So can my modern smart watch, but I'm not gonna make videos bragging about it.
@@werpu12 If it is solely for the gaming I would go with the mister fpga. Haven't tried to setup a more serious desktop. For the gaming, low latency is more important than what speed you can get the 68k series up to, which something like the added pistorm mode on this setup could give you. well unless you trying to do something like FPS post 1994. Mister should be best anyway for most gaming needs.
$350 Canadian dollars which is weaker than the Euro or the US dollar.
@@werpu12 Mister doesn't include A500's expandability feature with alternative CPUs e.g. PiStorm-RPi 3A-Emu68.
Does it Emulate Cards, like a Toaster ?
No
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ok, thought I saw a Toaster Farm "yard" there ..
I can't see the point in it ..May as well you pc emulation
many ways to do the same thing.
Have you found out if this mini Meg will work with Apollo vampire, Firebird?
it will not. the core is different on the minimig, and the vampire needs its own core to run first. which contradicts how the minimig fpga inits the chips.
Hello Chris! Could you please share the firmware file minimig1.bin to run 1.97 with 68000 cpu? Thanks!
i downloaded everything from the company's website here: www.minimig.ca/index.php/software/
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Many thanks. I just thought that for a regular processor (I have a 68НС000-16) I need another file
@@serperus no only for a Terriblefire card or pistorm. theres a bunch built in for diff mhz runs on the card from Ranko... max mine does is 60mhz which is awesome.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration mine stucked with black screen if I use v197itx-68k-pistorm-6mb-FMG230427 or tf one. but f12-menu works...
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration could you please point me directly to the file needed for 68k cpu without pistorm and tf for ITX 1.97? Many thanks!
2023 1.97 rev and still only vga out ? c'mon !
maybe in the next aga one
$350 is too high for this hardware
To each their own
it would be cheaper to buy the amiga
@@thediscoman2001 not exactly, yes you can prob get a pos 500 at 7mhz and 1mb ram, then you will need to update it, pistorm and rgb2hdmi as the cheapest way, next thing you know you need roms, then new version of the OS, oh and wouldnt you know it now your over 6-700 usd... but to each their own as i stated.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestorationOr you can buy other FPGAs with a minimig core, some cost less than $200.00 and get 2.5x the speed of an A3000 like unamiga, mist, sidi, etc... I bought a SIDI fpga last week for 139 euros + taxes and transport, waiting for it to arrive, if this minimig 1.97v had cost the same or a very little more, I would have bought it instead of the sidi.