Posted on 12/19/2021 9:59:05 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
"The A500 Mini, a new compact version of the Amiga 500 home computer, will be released on March 25, 2022. It’s expected to bring along a total of 25 classic Amiga games in its expandable library.
This little retro mini will have the ability to emulate A500, A600, and A1200, and players will be able to save and resume their progress of any game at any time. A huge feature included is that users will be able to add their own games to the library via USB stick through WHDLoad, so each person can have a library of retro classics tailored to their own personal gaming tastes.
The A500 Mini will also come with the original 2-button mouse, but this time it will be included with a “newly engineered” 8-button precision gamepad. Other features included are 720p display/50Hz for European buyers and 60 Hz for U.S. buyers, HDMI cable, USB-C power cable, a virtual keyboard, and scaling and CRT filter options to get the best quality possible while still keeping the nostalgic retro experience. ..."
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Everything old is new again.
I had a friend who had an amiga and its graphics were ahead of its time.
Need to come out with a compact video toaster
Will it have “Leasure Suit Larry inthe Land of the Lounge Lizards”?
Or was that on my C64?
Still have Amiga Lisp and UCSD Pascal/P-System somewhere...
I bought a TheC64 Maxi. Quite impressed by these retro recreations.
Old hardware can fail for almost any reason but probably the most common reason for hardware that has been in storage for most of its life to fail are capacitors going bad. I have a Zenith Super R television from 1955 which still works fine. Somehow 65 years ago capacitors were made to last. But these days capacitors in electronic devices often fail after a few years. I suspect it has something to do with planned obsolescence.
https://www.cnet.com/news/when-good-capacitors-go-bad/
So even if you are lucky enough to have an old Amiga computer that you have had in storage for years... there is a pretty good chance that when you set it up and plug it in either it just won't work, or worse you could get a nasty surprise with a bad smell coming from components that just received an inappropriate amount of voltage because of bad capacitors in the power supply.
For many people looking to get a retro-computing fix the best option is one of these cute emulator boxes made to look like whatever home computer they are programmed to imitate. In case you were wondering, the keyboards are just made to look like they work. Here is one from the same company for the Commodore 64.
https://www.amazon.com/C64-Mini-not-machine-specific/dp/B07GMV1X1K
If you are really into this type of thing you are probably better off just going to archive.org and downloading an emulator and some games or programs to run on it. You will get a much better selection and depending on your hardware a better simulation.
Blast from the past... Lisp and Forth ...
Amiga Lisp and the P-Card? I envy you! I did a huge amount of mc68000 programming on my Amiga back in the day. Had all the ROM kernel manuals, etc. I even wrote my own 3.5 disk driver to improve performance when multiple programs were trying to access the disk at the same time. Lots of fun!
I still have my Amiga 500 plus a Commodore 64. They all still work.
I used to go to a seedy bar just play this.
It was the only place in town that had it.
Anthropology major turned vic20, c64, amiga clsssic+68030 proc board, and a lot of magazines, peek() and poke,x into an eventual 6-fig income+retirement acct.
Glorious days, then. Those stepping stones taught the steps to learn unexpected lessons, trained a fearless attitude and a thick skinned tolerance for little failures and a hunger for the chase to me it work.
Modern programming feels much closer to tax accounting, rigid, over-engineered, adherence to largely unproven doctrine handed down from canonical, ecclesiastic, scholastic, hierarchies from pompous, sad and bored professors.
But now python is becoming a great escape from Java, C++ (c was fine), annotation and framework prisons. Until they transfor python into Java+++. See @data, pydantic, etc.
I liked the Adventure games back then. They stopped making them. The intellectual level in gaming has decreased a lot.
I think I still have my original Commodore 64 in the original box.
And Jupiter Lander plugin and the cassette drive.
Tempest is an excellent arcade game!
Dang thing ‘bout gave me a heart attack, every time!
;D
I loved my Amiga’s...was a different time.
Had an A500 and A3000. Miss them both!
I had an Amiga 1000 and loved it. Was lightyewre ahead of the PCs and even Macs at the time
Did you ever use “the Toaster” ?
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