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I went from the Amiga 500 to the Sega mega drive

I had a 1.2 A500 so no hard disk for me due to the lack of HD libraries in the ROM but the numeric pad was an essential part of working professionally on amiga, due to Deluxe Paint and Protracker using it for commands else not reachable

Not for me. I loved my Amiga back in the 90's and had a 500, 500+, 600 and 1200, but, times moved on. Now I just use WINUAE for anything Amiga. Its perfect for me and emulates every Amiga made. Including the CD32 and CDTV for which i pretty much have everything ever made for those consoles, and an almost a complete collection of Amiga software. Sorry, i had to smile at the out of memory error. I thought 4gb would of been plenty. I guess not.

A real Amiga has a real workbench. This is an interesting project I would like to use Workbench, can be handled by included joypad?

Nice and concise videos, short enough to watch. Sound is a bit echoey though. I've like'd and subscribed as I own an A500 and know I know the differences. I'm going to watch your other short videos now.

I do not see any Amiga 1200 game that made a huge leap from A500. They were looking quite same unless you have a faster cpu and fast ram addition

I'm sorry, but... what hardware is that, exactly? Not an actual 68k, is it, as those aren't produced anymore. If it's a proper FPGA implementation I'd be interested - but if this is just a software emulation running in a shoddy looking box that probably contains a PI or something similar... I really don't know why I would want this. Come to think of it, MiSTer already provides that coveted FPGA implementation...

You are generally better off buying a Mini PC and either setting up LInux and amiberry for auto start or installing PiAmiga on it.

¡Solo Amiga!

So good to see the properly sized (reverse L-shaped) Return key on your A500!

The 1200 was amazing at the time. Shame it got overtaken rather quickly.

octamed 8 looks dope. thanx :P

Andy's Blues made my ears hurt. It's either a serious bug or whoever made that OctaMed song is tone deaf.

If only the A1200 was released in like 1988 or so and another refresh 3 years later. Still the PC would've been more popular through the sheer IT industry support and investments commodore could never have hoped to match. The A1200 really shone in productivity applications like rendering and design, graphics etc. back in the day while the PC was still struggling with that type of stuff, though it quickly caught up with the 486 and pentium and windows 95. BTW I think PAULA was exactly the same in the A1200 vs A500 but in a PLCC package instead of a PDIP. Could be that it was enhanced in the A4000 with HD floppy capability since floppy data was decoded using PAULA. The integrated IDE controller in the A1200 was such a game changer, being able to use HDDs was a huge upgrade from floppy only A500 (of course you could upgrade the A500 with very expensive SCSI drives but was out of the price range for most people).

Getting the A500 was earth shattering at the time. Some great times and a massive leap from a master system. A1200 just didn't feel a massive leap (even if it was technically better). Stuff like added paralax backgrounds etc and a bit better framerate just didnt excite as much as the og 500 did.

When the Amiga 500 came out it was a revolution

I have fond memories of my A600. It worked well with dual floppy drives.

From Commodore The Final Years by Brian Bagnall Geoff Stilley, the new President of Commodore US, decided to host a product launch at the Winter CES in Las Vegas, held January 6 to 9, 1994. Stilley was able to brag about the CD32 outpacing sales of other CD-ROM consoles, such as 3DO, by 3 to 1. This was likely accurate, considering the CD32 sold over 166,000 units in 1993,

A600 cries in the corner

The a1200 was generally the better options, but there was something cool about fitting a 600 in a bag and taking it round to a mate's, like a console / laptop version of the Amiga.

Hi, i am using WinUAE, and i wonder how much memory the A500 can have? I always tought that 512Kb extra memory was the max, but i just learned that i was 2MB.

What does the A500 run that the A1200 does not?

Wolfenstein and doom killed Commodore amiga

I'm just patiently awaiting the Amigi Maxi.....

Why do these mini Amiga consoles always come with gamepads and not joysticks? 🕹️ Amiga games were designed for 🕹️ and thats how we played them.

The A1200 was amazing although Commodore were really f**king things up by now. The first problem was the lack of specific games for the machine. If you were a developer and you were making an Amiga game, you are going to target all Amigas not the high-end machine that not many people had. Secondly, games like Doom were really starting to shine, the 1200 had a socket for a Maths co-processor which could do the fast maths required for 3d rendering, sadly it was just shipped with a socket and didn't have the chip in it to do the business. Lastly, the consoles had multi-button controllers, why the Amiga wasn't pushed down this direction I don't know. It is compatible with the CD32 controller but nearly all games were one button only.

lol it's just an Orange Pi Zero with a custom Amigakit top hat. You could get near enough the same thing with a cheap twenty dollar Android TV box. As far as capability goes there's nothing new. Just use Winuae (free) or get an A500mini. Or get a cheap twenty dollar Android TV box and install the software yourself or use a Pi. Wow, over two hundred bucks. They got you hook, line and sinker lol

Hi russ. Just subscribed . Have not seen your channel before looks good. Think i might order one of these if shipping to australia is not too crazy. Thanks for the review😅

Loved this device when I had one. Great for loading all those PD CDs!!

And folks are slagging off the A500 Mini.... lol.. A500 Mini is premium compared to this

Gotta show my retrospective 1980's childhood love ❤️ for the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 everyday 😹😺👍🕹️. That's why, i am your new retrospective channel subscriber from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮 😺👍🕹️. COMMODORE 64 FOREVER 😺👍🕹️! Press play on tape LOAD"*",8,1 AMIGA FOREVER 😺👍🕹️! Insert disk 2 Thank you 😸😺👍🕹️.

The Computer Mão Amiga was pretty popular among some teenagers at the time

Was this even needed? I mean we got winuae, Mister, Minimig v1.98itx, AmiCube, Vampire SA... I know it's fairly cheap but why this? I guess more options for more people, you can't really go wrong.

I had 2 600s with memory upgrades, and a 1200 with an 030 accelerator. Prefered the 600s though.

looks like a standart single board arm device, in a nice case and an gpio board with db9 connector. the true value of this device is the software and the nostalgia

Please consider editing out constant smacking. It sounds revolting.

A1200 is the best for me. My machine was equipped with 68030 accelerator on 25 MHz

Two questions that remain unanswered (from my searches): 1) Am I right in assuming that these updated apps can only run on AmiBench? i.e. You can't copy them and use them on a classic Amiga? 2) In what way(s) has Directory Opus 4 been updated? Has it been well and truly bug fixed since it was abandoned, or is it just a new version stamp on old software?

What hardware inside of the machine?

needs to be housed in a keyboard.

I use a gotek with one of my amiga500s and it is a far more peaceful experience than the horrid disk crunching sounds...The disk drives kind of sounded broken with all the weird noises they used to make but then that was part of the original amiga500 experience.

Needs a viper2 fpga

I have a sh*t ton of amiga 500 games on floppy would they still work?

Just a bit of well intended helpful advise from a viewer's perspective-- rehearse first, or at least edit out the parts that were dead ended undo-go back. Chop out anything that doesn't get to the result swiftly, its seconds long. Was kinda hoping there was more video after it loaded... Talking about what new cool things there are availble for Amiga software that you've found and enjoyed, current Amiga news bits, etc. even the motivation to update it, more about A500 mini and its future, etc etc. The climax can't be the achievement of finally installing it, can it? I see this as a 30 second bit to quick get through where you can spend 10-20 minutes on the juicy compelling stuff. We all hit snags on installs and updates; we associate it with negativity. Unfortunately thats all this was... The worst part of an update. Heh. 🙃 Hopefully this doesn't come off as snark.

Well that was inconclusive. "It comes down to personal preference". Great, thanks for that.

DONT doubleclick on the items on the dock !! click ONE time or it will launch 2 times. Hence the memory problem.

Do they also sell the controller on its own?

Does it have midi in and out?

Did they mention what sort of CPU and GPU is in this thing ? It sort of looks like a re-branded miniPC of sorts, if I am being honest.

Nope it did not made A1200 a powerhouse. It made it a machine that was partly inferior to the PC at the same time. The A500 at the time of its release in 1985 however WAS indeed a powerhouse!