To MiST or not to MiST? Best hardware Amiga clone question

[thomas_red]

I would like to bring Amiga to my living room, badly, but space is the limit so A1200 would be too chunky to place in TV cabinet. Would you recommend MIST FPGA as easy setup to connect to 42" LCD TV? Or any other Ami clone alternatives? Or only UAE box? Wireless Keyboard/mouse is essential feature. I excluded Minimig from my short list due speed and no AGA suport (or I'm missing something?).

Many thanks.

 

[Sardine]

latest mist fpga Amiga supports AGA from the minimig port so minimig has aga ??

anyway, I have a Mist and i think its great, its not 100% but everything ive tried seems to work great and as a bonus its Atari st, bbc, c64 , Amstrad, spectrum, master system to name a few, there are loads of cores.

I get I would say 030 performance from it which is more than required for a whdload setup.

very easy to setup, copy the required files to an SD card and switch on, Mist supports Hard Disk images and 2 fdd drive for the Amiga.

have a read here

https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/wiki


oh! and if your worried about space, I have a wireless mini mouse and keyboard that work no issues, (get full size if you want the numeric keypad for games Like F/A 18 Interceptor)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232124225426

not tried a wireless gamepad yet,, also has real 9 pin amiga style joystick ports


I'm currently trying to get the CoCo on a chip to port his brilliant Coco 3 core to the mist, as it is now hes using the DE0-Nano/NanoMate setup

 

[thomas_red]

You'll be surprised but original Minimig has no AGA support, only Mist port and some developer's cores used on Replay FPGA etc.
How good idea is to connect Mist to 42" TV? I read a lot of stories about refresh rate problems on many screens.

 

[Sardine]

some cores on my tv show "out of sync" but its my tv. as with a diff tv its ok,

my current led new(ish) 24" Samsung tv is crap for the mist, I cant get a good picture as in the field adjustment (checker patterns are uneven fat and small pixels etc)

but my older (non HDMI) Samsung is brilliant, rock sold at 50 and 60 hz and I can adjust the pixel clock to perfect checker pattern / square pixels,,

so its all down to the quality of your screen.

 

[Harrison]

I personally just like using emulation via WinUAE, but as you say you are limited by space.

There is a new mini pc about to be released to compete with the Raspberry Pi so it might be worth looking into that as I think the price should be low and it will be quad core and able to run WinUAE. I will try to post a link for you.

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

 

[Sardine]

if you go the single board emulation route, take a look at the LattePanda, basically a quad core Atom with either 2gb ram/ 32gb storage or 4g/64gb

very interesting as it comes with reg, Windows 10

LattePanda (2G/32GB/with Win10 License) $119 Pre-Order.
LattePanda (2G/32GB/NO Win10 License) $89 Pre-Order.
LattePanda (4G/64GB/NO Win10 License) $149 Pre-Order.
would be interested in what Harrison has found always nice to make a Kodi / emulation box in the palm of your hand.

 

[DojoDan]

I've actually just bought an Armiga. Not anywhere near as flexible as the MiST though. I bought it after a few drinks and I don't even have a TV with HDMI so I haven't even tried it. If it interests you I will be moving it on as it was a purchase I didn't even need. Will be testing it tonighton my PC monitor.

 

[thomas_red]

My problem with space is actually not as bad, I need to fit something into cube box shelving unit, The only Amiga to fit would be A600 but getting Vampire2 board is a pain at the moment so I would probably use miniITX machine with UAE. Even tried to use amiga360 on Xbox last night but it's not great and only way to use joystick would be controller hack. With all my love to classic computers I have to admit that PC is my only reasonable option, looks like nothing can give me such of flexibility :/

 

[Sardine]

the Mist is brilliant, but if your stuck for cash etc, have you tried RetroPie on a Raspberry PI-3, its pretty good.

been playing around with the MIST FPGA this weekend as I want it setup ready to take to geekfest.

currently messing with the archimedes core playing Zarch and Xenon II
setup PCengine and played on it a bit, Amstrad 6128 fully working, MSX working, got an Apple II+ working, Atari 5200, Atari 800, Nes working, that's just today.

my Atari ST core boots from HDD images, as so does my Amiga 1200 core boots off 2 * 4gb HDF files, full set whdload, C64 with 1541, spectrum with built in Divde.
got a BBC core working today with turbo MMC pack.

I love it, I just need to get a better monitor, modern monitors suck,

oh! a bit experimental but many cores support 15kz with a scart cable

what I love about the mist is the accuracy of the cores, I mean the Archimedes core I had to hold "T" when booting for the 1st time to force it into Super VGA as the screen modes are that accurate you really need an acorn monitor for it to work correctly. im in 640x480-60hz but when I load Zarch etc it goes to 720x400-70hz

also you cant beat putting in the C64 core, turn on, 1, 2, 3, C64 blue boot screen "READY"
amiga core also turn on , 1, 2, 3, 4, dark grey, 5 light grey 6 , white and kick logo 7.

just like real hardware, the only delay when turning it on is loading the core from SDcard to the FPGA