Mini Amiga nostalgia

[nands]

Finally got round to getting the loader working and have selected a few games, managed a few levels of Lemmings and Bubble Bobble and I am happy as Larry!

 

[Guest2]

Every time someone mentions the Amiga I find myself browsing the ads....I want one so much lol. It has to be my favourite machine from my childhood.


But I suppose emulators will have to do... for now.

A500, 1200 or other?

A few times i've looked at A1200 listings and then thought to myself "wow, that's a lot of hardware and effort setting up for something emulation get now do very well"

 

[Vinno]

A500, 1200 or other?

A few times i've looked at A1200 listings and then thought to myself "wow, that's a lot of hardware and effort setting up for something emulation get now do very well"

I had an A500 back in the day.

And yeah I agree. The hassle and size of it always puts me off actually buying one.

 

[Guest2]

I had an A500 back in the day.

And yeah I agree. The hassle and size of it always puts me off actually buying one.

Me too (A500 with 1MB upgrade) but second hand for my 7th birthday in 1991. Came with quite a few big boxed games and loose games in a small cabinet along with a trusty (copied) version of X-copy

That and a second hand Yamaha DT50 a few years later were my favourite childhood presents. BMX and a Sony 3-CD HiFi and first PC when I was 16. Damn, 90s and early 2000s were great! Amiga, motorbiking, BMX, music and early PC with Windows 95.

 

[nands]

The games that I have downloaded either work or come up with an A500 loading screen and then eventually a software error.

Googling this comes up with quite a few people with the same problem (years ago on Reddit) but not many answers.

I have found a new source of lha files so will try some of those.

Desperately want to play Flashback and Megalomania!

 

[Guest2]

The games that I have downloaded either work or come up with an A500 loading screen and then eventually a software error.

Just like the 90s then with dodgy disks!

I remember even buying £30 games with birthday/xmas money or pocket money I had saved up, only for them to Guru Meditation after 5 minutes of loading. Body Blows Galactic was a good one of that!

Im not sure how the A500 mini runs lha/whdload packages but for what its worth they do work when properly installed on a Workbench setup on WinUAE A1200 config (but I had to manually configure and install all the components which took hours)

Great series, I followed about 1 - 15

 

[nands]

Thanks @Guest2 that site I mentioned earlier had an “older” Flashback which works, need to explore it more.

I’ll give some of those videos watch too.