This is a port of the minimig core to the MiST board.
minimig (short for Mini Amiga) is an open source re-implementation of an Amiga using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Original minimig author is Dennis van Weeren.
Amiga was - in my opinion - an amazing personal computer, announced around 1984, which - at the time - far surpassed any other personal computer on the market, with advanced graphic & sound capabilities, not to mention its great OS with preemptive multitasking capabilities.
The minimig-mist variant in this repository has been upgraded with AGA chipset capabilites, which allows it to emulate the latest Amiga models (Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000 and (partially) Amiga CD32). Ofcourse it also supports previous OCS/ECS Amigas like Amiga 500, Amiga 600 etc.
To use this minimig core on the MiST board, you will at the minimum need an SD/SDHC card, formatted with the FAT32 filesystem, an USB keyboard and a compatible monitor / TV. Joysticks & mouse can be emulated on the keyboard. You will probably want to attach a set of speakers of headphones, a real Amiga or USB mouse and a real Amiga joystick or an USB gamepad. The MiST board is needed too, of course ;)
FPGA core releases can be found here. The latest release available is minimig-mist-1_2. The zip file contains a minimig-mist-1_2.rbf file, which is the FPGA core, and a firmware.upg file, which can be used to upgrade the firmware on the ARM microcontroller (usually, there is no need to upgrade the firmware, unless it is specifically mentioned to do so). Both files should be placed on the root of your SD card. If you want this core to be the default, you need to rename it to core.rbf.
To use the core, you will also need a Kickstart ROM image file, which you can obtain by copying Kickstart ROM IC from your actual Amiga, or by buying an Amiga Forever software pack. The Kickstart image should be placed on the root of the SD card with the name KICK.ROM. Minimig also supports the AROS kickstart ROM replacement.
The minimig can read any ADF floppy images you place on the SD card. I recommend at least Workbench 1.3 or 3.1 (AmigaOS), some of the Amigas great games (I recommend Ruff'n'Tumble) or some of the amazing demos from the vast Amiga demoscene (like State of the Art from Spaceballs).
The minimig can also use HDF harddisk images, which can be created with WinUAE.
Keyboard special keys:
All issues for this project are tracked on this repository's Issues page.
If you are a Github user, you can report any issues or bugs directly here.
In case you don't have an account, you can use this link.
All development on this repository is done on the dev branch, or a branch forked from dev. Master branch contains only release-ready, stable changes. All stable releases are tagged with a tag minimig-mist-release_version.
See Changelog here.
See TODO list here.
This sourcecode is based on my previous project (minimig-de1), and it continues from there. It was split into a new project to allow changes that would never fit in the FPGA on the DE1 board.
Original minimig sources from Dennis van Weeren with updates by Jakub Bednarski are published on Google Code.
Some minimig updates are published on the Minimig Discussion Forum, done by Sascha Boing.
ARM firmware updates and minimig-tc64 port changes by Christian Vogelsang (minimig_tc64) and A.M. Robinson (minimig_tc64).
MiST board & firmware by Till Harbaum (MiST).
TG68K.C core by Tobias Gubener.
My page somuch.guru.
Further info about minimig can be found on the Minimig Discussion Forum.
MiST board support & other cores on the MiST Project Page.
Copyright © 2011 - 2016 Rok Krajnc (rok.krajnc@gmail.com)
Copyright © 2005 - 2015 Dennis van Weeren, Jakub Bednarski, Sascha Boing, A.M. Robinson, Tobias Gubener, Till Harbaum
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