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Target-Earth Blog!
Welcome to the blog section of my website. Here you'll find my mostly useless information on various retro gaming computers and consoles and a few other hobbies…
Some useful shortcuts:
- Video Game database - Online database of all my computers, consoles and games.
- Home Power Monitor - Electrical grid monitoring reports.
- Tech stuff - Retro gaming and computers, old electronics, network installers for Unix-like systems.
- Model making - Scale model making, sci-fi; Gundam, Macross, Maschinen Krieger…
- Miniatures - Miniatures painting.
- Car stuff - Rebuilds, projects and previous cars.
- Personal projects - Days out, DIY jobs, other unsorted stuff…
- Digital Photography - My very amateur attempts at digital photography.
- Book Collection - Cataloguing my book collection.
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Miniatures & Painting - Rackham: Confrontation, Hybrid & Nemesis - Dwarves | 2024/04/23 12:43 | John |
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Minimig v1.1 - Information and Firmware
From Wikipedia:
Minimig (short for Mini Amiga) is an open source re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
Minimig started around January 2005 as a proof of concept by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Weeren. He intended Minimig as the answer to the ongoing discussions within the Amiga community on implementing the
Amiga custom chipset using an FPGA. The project's source code and schematics were released under version 3 of the GNU General Public Licence on 25 July 2007.
I bought a Minimig v1.1 board around 2008 with the intention of using it as the basis of a portable Amiga 500, but it never really progressed beyond a basic (messy!) prototype. As such it then went into a box of parts, put in the attic, and forgotten about for many years.
Unfortunately, in 2024, the FPGA Amiga scene has moved on massively, and there is not a great deal of documentation or software to be found very easily for these original boards. This problem is further exacerbated by the fact that almost none of the released firmware or core files have been distributed with changes or readme files. So in many cases you are left guessing what the differences are.
Vectrex - Homebrew Games List
In addition to all of the original games I own for the Vectrex (mostly complete), I own these later homebrew games and carts which have been developed by people long after the system was dead:
Advantech PCA-6145 - 486 Single Board Computer
This is a 486 level system (socket 3) on a single 16bit ISA card. It is very compact, with almost everything you would want in a DOS system.
I bought this card in February 2024 with the intention to build an ultra small form factor DOS PC, so that I could put all of the full-size systems away in storage, to claw back some space in my office.
Miniatures & Painting - Rackham: Confrontation, Hybrid & Nemesis - Ophidian Alliance
These are my Ophidian models from Rackham.