Mini Amiga nostalgia

nands · Thursday at 09:41

I got one of these at the weekend and am loving it!

Already bought a joystick for more authenticity (while the supplied pad is serviceable it just doesn’t feel right).

Anyway, I am making my way though Another World and playing a bit of Speedball 2 (although my son beat me in a two player game - never has the expression ’beaten at your own game’ felt so apt!).

I will investigate getting some of my absolute favourites on it soon but am enjoying the starting line up.

Any tips?

phinix · Thursday at 20:06

Nice!
I just got SNES mini few weeks ago, but this one is next on my list.

darkgen · 2026-02-13T10:10:38+0000

nands said:
I got one of these at the weekend and am loving it!

Already bought a joystick for more authenticity (while the supplied pad is serviceable it just doesn’t feel right).

Anyway, I am making my way though Another World and playing a bit of Speedball 2 (although my son beat me in a two player game - never has the expression ’beaten at your own game’ felt so apt!).

I will investigate getting some of my absolute favourites on it soon but am enjoying the starting line up.

Any tips?

Is this the Retrogames TheA500 mini released in '22 Or something else?

nands · 2026-02-13T11:44:24+0000

darkgen said:
Is this the Retrogames TheA500 mini released in '22 Or something else?

Yes, the Retrogames one.

Guest2 · 2026-02-13T17:14:32+0000

I thought about getting a mini amiga but isnt it limited to very specific config?
(and not running accurate a500/a1200 cycles)
Is it running workbench rom 1.2 / 1.3 / 3.1 or other?
Can do do anything like adding a hard drive to install workbench and other apps, games and whdload?

I was mostly put off by it not being cycle exact and therefore probably being issues in games with accuracy like glitches, sound issues and collision problems.

nands · 2026-02-13T20:30:52+0000

It is an emulator, the installed games just appear on a selectable screen rather that workbench or anything real.

Apparently you can load additional games on but I have not tried that yet.

Guest2 · 2026-02-13T21:44:27+0000

nands said:
It is an emulator, the installed games just appear on a selectable screen rather that workbench or anything real.

Apparently you can load additional games on but I have not tried that yet.

Yep, I know but was trying to establish the emulator being used (and accuracy)

Its clearly not WinUAE and probably (I expect) a cheap Raspberry Pi board running an out outdated version of PUAE 2021 or uae4all.

Timber · 2026-02-14T01:49:48+0000

Guest2 said:
Yep, I know but was trying to establish the emulator being used (and accuracy)

Its clearly not WinUAE and probably (I expect) a cheap Raspberry Pi board running an out outdated version of PUAE 2021 or uae4all.

I believe it's Amiberry with some form of custom front-end; https://thec64community.online/thread/971/thea500-mini-specs.

I don't own the A500 Mini, but I am intrigued by the THE A1200 coming in June. I know it's not FPGA, but it's still a fairly quick and convenient way to load Amiga software. Also having the full blown case etc. is cool.

Guest2 · 2026-02-14T16:57:20+0000

Timber said:
I believe it's Amiberry with some form of custom front-end; https://thec64community.online/thread/971/thea500-mini-specs.

I don't own the A500 Mini, but I am intrigued by the THE A1200 coming in June. I know it's not FPGA, but it's still a fairly quick and convenient way to load Amiga software. Also having the full blown case etc. is cool.

Interesting you can add your own WHDLoad games (and load/save), meaning it must have a form of Workbench installed on the 256mb hdd. It would be good if they let you access that to configure it as you like and test some of the old classic Workbench apps such as Say, DPaint and Octamed.