On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > Liam Proven wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Dianne Reuby <pramc...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:20 +0000, Steve wrote: >>> >>>> I thought I’d seen it before. Looks like a nice idea for those that >>>> don’t want a big box but dislike the dinky little screens and odd >>>> keyboard layout of a laptop. >>>> >>> But why pretend it's a C64? That's like BMW pretending they build >>> Minis. :) >>> >> >> I'd rather a C21 Amiga, myself - but they went PowerPC, meaning they >> are in an even smaller niche today than they used to be. >> >> If only Transmeta were still going. It would have been possible, with >> the right "CodeMorphing" firmware, for a Transmeta machine to run >> PowerPC or MC68060 code... Or maybe even both. Such a shame they >> died... :¬( >> > I guess the nearest thing for those of us who can't afford the exotic > hardware is to run something like the UAE Amiga emulator) :-) > > I'm sure I read somewhere a while back that someone had managed to > emulate the Amiga hardware on an FPGA. > > Rob
Indeed. It's called Minimig & it's very impressive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
