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`10.Dec.2005` (ANF)	Minimig: Amiga 500 as FPGA reimplementation Under the title link says an amiga.org member that during the last twelve months he has newly implemented the complete chipset of an Amiga 500 into a FPGA (field programmable gate array). He used a Spartan-3 FPGA development board programmed in Verilog. Please consider that there is no further confirmation of the existance of this project apart from the developer's statement and some images (see below). According to the designer is in the current version of the project codenamed "Minimig" support for sound and keyboard still missing, and the emulation of the flopppy controller is not very accurate (as "floppy discs" are MMC flash cards used with ADF images stored on them). The Workbench as well as some games (New Year Lemmings is named) are allegedly already running on the prototype. The FPGA contains the complete Amiga chipset (Agnus, Paula, Denise and both CIAs) including ChipRAM but not CPU and FastRAM. The two inmdependent bus systems of a real Amiga were put together to a combined synchronous bus with a 7.09379 Mhz clock and existing only within the FPGA. RAM and CPU are linked via two bridge chips (synchronous-asynchronous conversion) with this internal bus. A real ROM does not exist, instead there's a bootloader loading the Kickstart from a memory card. Images: Plasma effect on Minimig, demonstration of a Copper bug New Year Lemmings on Minimig The Minimig prototype The used processor (3,3V version of the MC 68000) (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 10. Dec. 2005, 16:24] [Comments: 4 - 02. Jan. 2006, 01:03] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Dec.2005`	Disk drive emulation with Flash memory card Under the title link describes Tim N. Taschpulatow his hobby project of an emulated Amiga disk drive using a SD/MMC memory card. With this hardware, for example linked as drive DF1:, you can read an ADF diskfile on an Amiga computer like from a real disk. Write access is presently not possible. Photos of this construction can be found in a Russian thread on Amiga.org.ru. (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 10. Dec. 2005, 11:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Dec.2005` AROS-Exec (Website)	AROS: Alphaversion of an IRC Client Nic Andrews has published an early alpha release called AIRcos as a Zune based irc client for AROS. Download: aircos-0.0.1.zip (97 KB) (snx) (Translation: ts) [News message: 08. Dec. 2005, 13:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Dec.2005` Genesi (e-mail)	Genesi: Home Media & Communication System and EFIKA 5K2 available (Update) Genesi is pleased to announce the availability of the award-winning Genesi Home Media and Communication System. There are a number of optional features available on request in the online PegasosPPC Store. Genesi's Director of Open Source Software, Pieter Van den Abeele commented on the release: "We are selling the customer a box optimized to run MythTV, not a software experience like Mac OS X or Windows Media Center Edition. We are assembling existing open source components into a whole. We think this is something the open source software community will appreciate. We would like to see people with the Genesi Home Media and Communication System build their own versions of the software. We hope to create a cycling effect of innovation and improvement in the software around the hardware. By building a community we build a market that is attractive to VAR, for example we are looking forward to Terra Soft Solutions selling their version of this product soon." For those not interested in developing their own software the Home Media and Communication System comes ready to go with software built over an AltiVec optimized version of Gentoo Linux. Also of note, the recently announced EFIKA 5K2 board is available with a minimum order of 50 units. The boards include the Pegasos HAL/OF implementation and run the software currently available on the Open Desktop Workstation. Movies: Home Media & Communications System Freescale Keynote Best of Show Announcement, MP4 Stream (High Quality and Mobile Quality) Award Presentation, MP4 Stream (High Quality and Mobile Quality) Movies: EFIKA 5K2 EFIKA 5K2 Product Presentation, MP4 Stream (High Quality and Mobile Quality) Update: (20:45, 05.12.05, snx) According to Genesi, the tuner is an analogue one while DVB-S/T/C and HDTV are in the works. Furthermore, "the hard drives are enclosed in a sound-proof casing. The heat of the hard drive is transferred to the outside of the casing using heatpipes. The HD case transfers its heat to the heatsinks on the side of the case. The HD case is specially mounted (suspended) as well to prevent any vibrations from becoming audible. The same goes for the PSU." Genesi will also be publishing a "How To" manual. Then one can buy a PegasosPPC and just build a Home Media and Communication System himselve. (snx) [News message: 04. Dec. 2005, 07:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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