Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Aug 2007 11:33 UTC, submitted by Meng
"Minimig [homepage] stands for Mini Amiga. Minimig is an FPGA-based re-implementation of the original Amiga 500 hardware. In it's current form, Minimig is a single PCB measuring only 12*12cm which makes it the smallest 'Amiga' ever made and the first new 'Amiga' in almost 14 years! Minimig is available for download as an open-source/open-hardware design under the GNU public license. This page describes the architecture and the inner working of the Minimig. All design files can be downloaded from the download section."
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Member since:2006-08-19
There is a bounty for a Kickstart Replacement at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/
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Member since:2007-02-22
"The Kickstart is a copyrighted piece of software. Therefore, ... You must own the original kickstart roms...
Well darn. I was starting to salivate, but this just removes it from grasp. " Or, you know, just pay $10 or so to get them from Amiga's current owners.
You know, the idea of an $80 retro-Amiga thin client (one I posited the other day in the last Amiga thread) doesn't seem too far out of grasp now...
Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2005-07-18
Or, you know, just pay $10 or so to get them from Amiga's current owners.
I sense your sarcastic self-righteousness, but having 1990's ROM chips in hand does not equate to having a file on disk. Getting from ROM to file is the problem. Although perhaps purchase of (and therefore possession of) old hardware could be used to justify an illegal download.
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2005-07-18
Well darn. I was starting to salivate, but this just removes it from grasp. It would be nice if someone would reverse engineer the Kickstart ROMs and release a free equivalent.