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Minimig v1.1 - Information and Firmware2024/03/18 17:48John
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Vectrex - Homebrew Games List2024/03/12 15:04John

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Minimig v1.1 - Information and Firmware

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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.


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2024/03/18 09:16 · john

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:

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2024/03/12 09:03 · john

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.

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2024/02/21 09:42 · john

Miniatures & Painting - Rackham: Confrontation, Hybrid & Nemesis - Ophidian Alliance

These are my Ophidian models from Rackham.

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2023/07/21 10:46 · john
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