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18.Feb.2006
Volker Mohr (E-Mail)

Minimig: Report on the FPGA-Amiga presentation in Maarssen
Today, in the club meeting of the Commodore Gebruikers Groep in Dutch Maarssen, the FPGA-based Amiga replica 'Minimig' was publicly introduced by its developer, Dennis van Weeren (reported by amiga-news.de).

Volker Mohr has visited the event and composed a short report for amiga-news.de. You can find his photos at the end of this article. In addition, he writes:

"On February 18, the 'Commodore Gebruikers Groep' (CGG) invited to one of their regular meetings in Maarssen near Utrecht again. In the homely setting, this time there were three interesting news at once to gaze at. Two of them were Jiffy DOS for the VC 20 - a highly compatible fast-loader with extended operating system - as well as the 1541-III by Jan Derogee.

The latter is a PIC microcontroller, which uses an MMC/SD as drive via the IEC bus - and can thus be used on the C 64, VC 20 and even the C64-DTV. Thereby, the circuit behaves like a 1541 drive, hence was the name 1541-III chosen. On the FAT-16-formatted MMC/SD card, disk images in the well-known D64 format are located, which are recognized as 5.25" disks.

However, the actual sensation of the day is the Minimig. Club member Dennis reproduced a complete Amiga 500 with OCS in FPGA technology. As can be recognized in the pictures, the prototype, except for puniest errors, already behaves like a real Amiga.

Games were usable with mouse and joystick, a keyboard was yet missing. The laptop on the fringes served merely as floppy substitute, to be able to run disk images on the Minimig. Jens Schönfeld from individual Computers from Aachen was enthused as well and talking shop with Dennis for a long time.

In any case, it is certain that the Amiga clone based on FPGA, mentioned for the first time in December of last year in the forum of Amiga.org, is by no means a matter of hoax, but an amazing marvel of technology.

So let's hope that this device can arouse interest in the industry, because as compact games console like the C64-DTV, it could bring the name Amiga back into the awareness of the public again."

vc20.jpg (640 x 480)	minimig7.jpg (640 x 480)
minimig6.jpg (640 x 480)	minimig5.jpg (640 x 480)
minimig4.jpg (640 x 480)	minimig3.jpg (640 x 480)
minimig2.jpg (640 x 480)	minimig1.jpg (640 x 480)
1541III.1.jpg (640 x 480)	1541III-3.jpg (640 x 480)
1541III-2.jpg (640 x 480)

In addition to Volker Mohr's report, further photos and comments can be found in the already-mentioned forum on Amiga.org. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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15.Feb.2006
Mike Preuß (ANF) Event: 15th anniversary of the come computer collection Kiel
The home computer collection Kiel, that equips the oldie corner at Amiga meetings regularly, turns 15 years now. Hence there is a small home computer exhibition at the Jugendhaus "neue Heimat", 24149 Klausdorf, Dorfstr. 101. The exhibition has open doors on Saturday, the 18th February from 1 pm to 8 pm and on Sunday the 19th Feruary from 10:30 am to 3 pm. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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13.Feb.2006
Jörg Dittmar (ANF) Bremer Computer- & Video-Börse, 4. til .5. März
Also this year at the first March weekend, 4. and 5.March, the Computer- &Video-Börse in Bremen (Germany) starts. The venue is the "Berliner Freiheit" in the new Vahr this year.

The menbers of the Computer-Club "User der Nordseeküste" (UdN) are on this party, beside several Macintosh- and Windows-systems, a AmigaOne XE (Ralf "Mika" Tönjes) and a Pegasos 2 (Jörg "der_letzte_Amiganer" Dittmar) will be shown.

Neben den Mitglieder des UdN werden wieder Amiga-User aus Bielefeld und Braunschweig erwartet, die inzwischen auch zu den Stammgästen zu zählen sind.

Der Einrittspreis beträgt 4 EUR, erfahrungsgemäß gibt es auf der Börse ein umfangreiches Angebot an neuer und gebrauchter Hardware. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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