minimig!!!
MIIIIINNNNIIIMIIIGG!!
Finally arrived today and I couldn't unpack it fast enough. First impressions of the board is that it is small, but hey, it's not exactly rocket science by today’s standards. It's spot on 12x12cm - approximately the size of a CD case.
Hence, the first step was building a suitably dodgy case for it cTrix style:
Built with all the care in the world using a Swiss army knife and a cigarette lighter (to melt and bend the plastic out of the way - I was too lazy to cut it)
Looks a million dollars to me. So next step was to fire it up - and on first boot nothing happened. Ahhh... no MMC card. Look in box... look in shipping material... look in box again... no MMC card... look in manual... "a compatible card is provided". Damn it! Looks like they don't provide a card anymore :-/ Anyway, a while later I found a 32meg SD card and copied the rom files across aaaaaand it just started flashing a blue LED at me. Buggered if I actually knew what it meant though because there is no documentation.
My next step was to take the 32MB card and this time use DOS to format the card with the force FAT switch. (it should have been FAT16 anyway, but just in case). Then I renamed all the files to CAPS and copied them across to the SD card with the copy command.
Boot - weird loader style flashing - color cycle - more flashing lines - more colored screens - and eventually (after a good 20 seconds) the Amiga "insert floppy" appeared. Horay! So using the F12 and page up/down keys selected last years Syntax OCS demo - and it played perfectly from start to end :-] Gotta be happy with that! I’ve since watched about 10 demos on it (mainly Australian) and they all seem to work ok with the exception of a few sprite problems along the bottom of the screen on one or two demos. Sound is surprisingly solid and quite faithful although I’ll be testing this in the future.
:-)
Finally arrived today and I couldn't unpack it fast enough. First impressions of the board is that it is small, but hey, it's not exactly rocket science by today’s standards. It's spot on 12x12cm - approximately the size of a CD case.
Hence, the first step was building a suitably dodgy case for it cTrix style:
Built with all the care in the world using a Swiss army knife and a cigarette lighter (to melt and bend the plastic out of the way - I was too lazy to cut it)
Looks a million dollars to me. So next step was to fire it up - and on first boot nothing happened. Ahhh... no MMC card. Look in box... look in shipping material... look in box again... no MMC card... look in manual... "a compatible card is provided". Damn it! Looks like they don't provide a card anymore :-/ Anyway, a while later I found a 32meg SD card and copied the rom files across aaaaaand it just started flashing a blue LED at me. Buggered if I actually knew what it meant though because there is no documentation.
My next step was to take the 32MB card and this time use DOS to format the card with the force FAT switch. (it should have been FAT16 anyway, but just in case). Then I renamed all the files to CAPS and copied them across to the SD card with the copy command.
Boot - weird loader style flashing - color cycle - more flashing lines - more colored screens - and eventually (after a good 20 seconds) the Amiga "insert floppy" appeared. Horay! So using the F12 and page up/down keys selected last years Syntax OCS demo - and it played perfectly from start to end :-] Gotta be happy with that! I’ve since watched about 10 demos on it (mainly Australian) and they all seem to work ok with the exception of a few sprite problems along the bottom of the screen on one or two demos. Sound is surprisingly solid and quite faithful although I’ll be testing this in the future.
:-)