Got my case yeserday! Woot! I had previously recevied the board, now I just need to replace a few componects grab that ITX power adapter, shave my buttons down a smidge and I'll be golden! The quality of the case is supurb! Ranko is awesome!
Great video, thanks for all you do to help the Amiga community. Wanted to also mention that the original v1.1 ACube and this v1.97itx MiniMig seem to have their CPU Speed bound for some odd reason to the "Scanlines" setting, when set to off performance plummets vs. "VGA Alike" or "TV Alike" which results in max. speed.
Nice! I have an unAmiga that I already never use, so I probably would never use thos either. (Too busy with real Amigas). Doesn't mean I wont buy one, though!
This is a great video! Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge. I also love the purple Minimig so that's the 1.97ITX color I bought a few months ago. It's a beauty. I also feel extra-motivated to try getting the Pistorm working on the Minimig (though the Pistorm I bought probably arrived DOA) or at least buying another one.
Those Minimigs are getting better and better. If they add a parallel port it would be a perfect Amiga replacement. I noticed the serial port, can you plug a MIDI adapter and software can see it?
Thanks Chris, for this and your other videos! I have a couple of questions you might know the answer to: - If using the Minimig only with a Pistorm, am I correct in understanding that only 2MB of RAM will ever be used? Only for chip, right? - What happens if you try to run the Minimig with >0MB of fast and/or slow RAM enabled with the Pistorm? - Can you preconfigure the Minimig's settings before turning it on? Is there an example config file? Thx!
you need 2mb on minimig chip, pistorm control fast from pi side. if you have no memory nothing happens, and you can never boot again. you would need to remove card and edit the config on windows and put the 2mb chip back in its config file then you can boot again. its best to just boot minimig press F12 and set to 2mb chip save and reboot, / turn off install pistorm , your done
Same issue for me the Minimig doesn’t boot, black screen only, with f12 I can go to Minimig menu only. If I have the hdmi plug on rbpi it shows me the splash screen emu68 grey but nothing open then. How to know the fpga core running? How to swap it?
So I am confused. I have a PI400 and am using Pimiga to do my daily Amiga stuff (since all my original Amiga hardware has died long time ago). What would I be able to do with this? Is it better than Pimiga?
Its another alternative. Not as good as pimiga can emulate features but this is a real amiga recreation on modern hardware. Pimiga uses linux. This uses real motorola cpus
Chris, I get to the point of powering up the MiniMig with my RPi 3A+ / PiStorm combination but I get nothing happening on the MiniMig side. I don't have a monitor hooked up to the Pi side. Some of the files in my EMU68 download looked a bit different than yours - specifically you have emu68.img as your kernal image, where mine shows kernel=Emu68-pistorm, and there is an Emu68-pistorm file. Scratching my head on this! Can you help?
On the Minimig website software page, there appears to be a separate firmware for the board to support the PiStorm (I guess the board ships default with the ARM firmware installed). @Chris - is your Minimig running this PiStorm firmware?
@@Jody_VE5SAR I have the following .bin files in my root; minimig1.bin and Minimig1-v197itx-68k-pistorm-56MHz-FMG230427.bin. In a directory called ARM Firmware there is a single file - ARM_ASB230314.bin. And in a directory called Minimig-Cores-6MB there are three sub-directories called Minimig1-v197itx-68k-pistorm-6mb-FMG230427-bin, Minimig1-v197itx-68k-pistorm-6MB-FMG230608-bin and Minimig1-v197itx-terriblefire030-6mb-FMG230217-bin. In the two 68k-pistorm directories there are 14 different .bin files differentiated by processor clock speed. I picked up my MiniMig from Ranko only about a month ago so I assume that all the files are relatively up to date.
yes, the trick is you pick one and rename it minimig1.bin and that becomes your "core" you can pick and choose speeds to match what your doing. the pistorm i just used the 34mhz one as it worked on MY 68000 and is the same core. but results may vary depending on WHO built your pistorm.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Okay, thanks Chris. I think I tried that with the 60MHz one, but will try others. Are you attending World of Commodore in Toronto this year?
@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I am tryng to update the ARM core, not the FPGA core. There is an option on the 1.91 to update it, but so far I have failed to do so.
Old fat dudes can be pretty cool to hang out with ^^ especially Amiga dudes! Old, fat, young, skinny, makes no difference in Amiga land! Actually, a minimig is pretty cool, might get one at some point
pistorm cores have always been updated. supposidly its better? i have a older core on this machine at the moment. they do have nightly builds on their github
denise is emulated so not required. plus theres no denise to even plug it into. it auto does its 15/31khz flicker free. you can convert the signal i guess.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration slow shipping $73, trackable (probably faster) $208, total before VAT + postnord charge = $598, estimated total including tax and fee (don't know if there will be some customs % too): $765 (usd or cad)
its not 3 power buttons, its 3 functions of the lights, which mimick the buttons on the board for those without the case. i asked the creator and when in atx powered mode (which i didnt have) the power button works like a normal atx pc power. the other lights are system core ready alternative F12 button and hard disk (sd card) activity alternate/reset
Just to be sure were talking about the same thing I'm referring to the connector to the right of the SD slot . Not the MNU button@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration
Thanks for the reply I just purchased one on your recommendation. I'm know I'm nitpicking here, but I would love to be able to use the new USB amiga keyboard that was also just released along with an actual floppy drive do you know if any of this is in the works?@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration
