Amiga 500 Mini on the horizon ?

[Sardine]

The makers of the C64 mini and maxi ( full size )

have teased a silhouette of what look like an A500,

I doubt a full size A500 would be made due to well its MASSIVE size.

Either a mini or A1200 / A600 would be more in line / costs / packaging etc.

but it is what it is a teaser post

https://www.facebook.com/THEC64andMoreByRetroGamesLtd/posts/2425340997771127

 

[FutureVariant]

I’d expect it to be some variant of the Amiga 500 as that was the biggest selling.

Wonder what the inner tech will be. A usb style tank mouse would be fun, as well

 

[Hiddenevil]

I have a Maxi, not sure the Arm chip they are using could handle an Amiga. But lord oh lord not another Mini! Didn’t they learn last time, people expect the keyboard to work. But what do I know, maybe it’ll sell bucket loads.

i would have been more excited if they’d kept with 8bit and done a Spectrum or Atari, though a thought occurred to me. With an Arm CPU under the hood, I wonder if it could also run Spectrum Next titles. Now that is something I would get excited about, a Spectrum Next that doesn’t cost a kidney.

 

[User4703]

The silhouette looks identical to this:

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Which means it will probably be an Atari ST

Wonder how they're going to pull this off because a lot of Amiga games used the keyboard for various things plus you need a mouse as well to click past the cracktros. Hardware wise the PSC chipset can handle Amiga perfectly well with spare overhead for shaders as well.

3DS is the best option for emulation though as the screen is 240p anyway, its portable, has a touchscreen mouse and keyboard with decent quality emulation.

 

[Frederic_Freakazoid]

I feel like if it was going to be another mini, then we'd have a Vic-Mini as well by now.....

 

[User4703]

I don't think they'll be churning out a full size A500 as that thing was immense. Unless of course they're feeling frisky after the PS5 announcement
If that was the case they'd have more likely made an A600 or A1200 at a push but the classic is what has the most appeal in terms of retro as thats what most people had.

This could become a huge seller though because the Amiga had a huge cachet in UK/Europe but one really valid point is what the heck are they going to do with all of the copy protection? Include hard copies of the manuals, spinner wheels and other real world tests or just drop loads of cracked ones on there and call it a day?

One of the best things I like about emulators is how you can assign two buttons so instead of up to accelerate/jump you have an actual other button at your disposal and that really adds to the experience like other quality of life things like turbo disk speed, save states etc.. if anyone hasn't tried it yet you've got to check out the 3DS implementation of UAE I posted a while back as its got all of these features and its pretty amazing having a portable Amiga with touchscreen keyboard and mouse for on the go retro.