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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 8-Jul-2019 14:50:43
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Demean? There was no demeaning, it was meant as tongue in cheek.
Also, never heard of auto correct? On occasion a wrong word will slip in.
You understood anyway, so out of curiosity was you being defensive, petty, or deliberately obtuse and pedantic? |
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 8-Jul-2019 15:55:06
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Then you have not paid attention. |
I don't even recall seeing that site before.
But isn't that for the MIST board? I know about MIST. I'm thinking of a dedicated MiniMig follow up board with AGA. |
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 8-Jul-2019 17:24:29
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Pretty much, though the VCS does have a bit of a "yet another failed Linux gaming box" aura about it....
Amiga will continue to splinter, argue, fight, when really Amiga in its heyday was all about desktop computers running its own OS on proprietary hardware. So simple yet so hard for so many to achieve.
The last Amiga that did this was the relaunched Amiga 1200 in 1995/96.
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 8-Jul-2019 17:25:04
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I'm thinking of a dedicated MiniMig follow up board with AGA.
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Minimig was a design, the design is made for an FPGA, it could be used with a real 68k CPU or with a free soft core 68k CPU and needs an ARM for HD emulation on SD-Card.
Maybe you thought Cloanto was the only source for Minimig hardware but that's wrong.
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 9-Jul-2019 15:35:11
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Maybe you thought Cloanto was the only source for Minimig hardware but that's wrong. |
I don't recall where the hardware came from. But it would be strange Cloanto producing it as they focus on software. I saw one years ago and it was okay as a minature A500. But it also lacked a case so looked a bit hackish.
I expected another model to be produced with AGA. Though catching up to AGA, when it was thought obsolete even in the early 90's, seems strange.
Sure, it's made for an FPGA, but I don't recall anyone buying a MiniMig to do anything but Amiga on it. Nowdays it's a one hardware, run many platforms, type of world.Last edited by Hypex on 09-Jul-2019 at 03:36 PM.
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 9-Jul-2019 15:49:38
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What other platforms worth their salt are there worth emulating in a FPGA?
Atari ST for BlueWar III Acorn Archimedes for Starglider 3000 Not much else is of value to be honest when I can emulate Super Mario Bros. 3 on an Amiga!
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 9-Jul-2019 16:06:41
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 9-Jul-2019 16:26:15
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But it would be strange Cloanto producing it as they focus on software.
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You are right I mixed it up with 'ACube Systems Srl' another Italian company. |
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 9-Jul-2019 16:46:41
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What other platforms worth their salt are there worth emulating in a FPGA? |
Maybe an Atari Falcon and Sharp X68000.
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MiSTer has this computer cores, Atari STs seems missing:
Acorn Archimedes Altair 8800 Amiga Amstrad CPC 6128 ao486 Apogee Apple II+ Apple Macintosh Plus Aquarius Atari 800XL BBC Micro B,Master BK0011M Commodore 16, Plus/4 Commodore 64, Ultimax Commodore PET Commodore VIC-20 DEC PDP-1 Jupiter Ace MSX MultiComp Orao SAM Coupe Sharp MZ Series Sinclair QL Specialist/MX TI-99/4A TSConf Vector 06C X68000 ZX Spectrum ZX81 |
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 9-Jul-2019 16:51:33
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Ah yes, I recall seeing that on the ACube site. Out of stock. Design is a bit dated based on PS/2 and VGA. It's not clear what is meant by PIC and ARM options. Not that it matters anymore. |
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 9-Jul-2019 19:23:17
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It's not clear what is meant by PIC and ARM options.
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An Amiga needs a hard disc or at least a floppy disk, those 'FPGA Amigas' are using an standard FAT32 formatted flash cards that have ADF or Hardfiles in them. The MCUs (PIC or ARM) is decoding the hard file or ADF and emulating a hard disk or floppy for the 'FPGA Amiga'
Nice, but to expensive for a commercial Amiga clone, they will use the cheapest possible ARM hardware ( 5-10€ with RAM, FLASH and SoC) and call it 'The Amiga Mini' if they can get the name licence. |
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 10-Jul-2019 0:26:17
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Nice but dont wish that for the Amiga. |
Market relevance and economic success?
You're right. That would be horrible.
I mean, why generate revenue to propel the platform forward?
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I'm with @davebraco: thanks, but no, thanks.
Is a RaspberryPi running Amibian an Amiga? I'd say no, and you can already buy it, the same way that you can buy a PC and put WinUAE in it. Again, not an Amiga. But both cases show a complete a full-featured and fully usable Amiga system, they can be used to mantain or expand the system userbase, and some Amiga-emulated users will jump into the real-machine bandwagon, buying a real A1200, A600, whatever.
What the people making those consoles named "Atari" is doing is making profit from the name and the memories, selling a retro videogame console, not expanding the classic Atari userbase.
This has been done with many, many dead brands: to prostitute the name just because people still remembers it.
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 10-Jul-2019 18:58:05
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MiSTer has this computer cores, Atari STs seems missing:
Acorn Archimedes Altair 8800 Amiga Amstrad CPC 6128 ao486 Apogee Apple II+ Apple Macintosh Plus Aquarius Atari 800XL BBC Micro B,Master BK0011M Commodore 16, Plus/4 Commodore 64, Ultimax Commodore PET Commodore VIC-20 DEC PDP-1 Jupiter Ace MSX MultiComp Orao SAM Coupe Sharp MZ Series Sinclair QL Specialist/MX TI-99/4A TSConf Vector 06C X68000 ZX Spectrum ZX81 |
Say what now - no C128?
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 11-Jul-2019 8:04:21
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Realistic in as being a way to build a decent low cost Amiga like system. You need x86 (or ARM) for this. Amiga OS does not run on either of those and are unlikely to ever be able to do that. This for two reasons, Amiga OS relies on a lot of low level assembly language and are in the hands of a company that is not able to do much progress and who does not want to even go this route.
Take a look at BSD and Linux. BSD is a genuine UNIX, Linux is a reimplementation. BSD ended up in the court about ownership issues with the UNIX trademark owner. Linux did not have this problem and grabbed a lead. The court case was eventually settled, but BSD has never been able to really catch up. Thus, having the genuine code with a certain heritage is not the most important thing, people just want something that works and that does not have issues.
I do even dream about the Amiga being able to touch the mainstream competition like Windows, macOS or Linux. That train left the station 20-25 years ago.
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FreeBSD is currently the kernel software for Sony's PS4.
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Re: Atari betting us again Posted on 11-Jul-2019 15:29:48
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Quite a big list. And yes some obvious ones missing. I'd be interested in the Commodore 16, Plus/4 simulation. But I wouldn't want to overload the FPGA so it burns out. In case the simulation was too accurate. |
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