Minimig Improvements

Some ideas for Minimig improvements:

Project name	Basic	Comment
Minimig Selftest	Y
Graphics	N	More games possible to run
Harddisc	Y	Larger software installations possible.
Ethernet	?	Rid of the need for flashmemories? & Network boot.
Use DRAM	Y	Memory hungry software becomes possible. And developer board have dram builtin.
Shared MCU/FPGA RS232	Y	One less jumper..
NTSC	Y	NTSC monitors can be used.
S-Video Resistor D/A issues etc..	Y
Breakout pinheaders	Y	More installation flexibility
MCU user I/O	Y	Wire the unused MCU (pic18xxxx) ports to a user I/O pin header
Kickstart replacement	N	Rid of Amiga Inc dependency.
Discimage support .ADF .DMS .FDI .ADZ	N	ADF is not sufficient for some copyprotected discs
Expansion via Zorro ISA PCI PCI-Express	N	Make use of old hardware
Upgrade the FPGA	Y	More logic & I/O pins
HDL devices	N	Devices in HDL languages - needs no hardware
Real floppy controller	N	Make disc images for Minimig (see Amiga floppy project)
Simulate Atari ST, Mac-68k etc..	N
Realtime clock	N	Correct timestamp on disc files
Parallel port	N	Multiplayer, Printer, ParNet etc..
USB	N
Faster CPU	N	mc68020+ makes it possible to run NetBSD (unix)
CPU in verilog/vhdl	N	Makes Minimig on a stock FPGA developer board possible
Wikipedia: FPGA+CPU	N	FPGAs with CPU onchip
/BERR Support	Y	For 68K /BERR Vector when non-existant memory accessed

Resources:

• Opencores.org - Free HDL devices

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