A500 Mini - Still Worth Playing 3 Months Later? 

Lol you noticed that as well? The early reviews were really poor. They ignored issues and the problems at launch.. just saying how amazing it is.. Now I do like the A500 mini but it was far from perfect outside the already included games.

That's how I have it set up, wireless keyboard and mouse. I like the tank mouse, very retro, but don't need to use it all the time.

Pretty sure it'll happen..

full Amiberry options ? Amiberry is stripped down version of WinUAE... less features,, doesn't support (cartridges like Action Replay III) etc.. and has other issues.. It does good for low end hardware (which its was designed for),but that often means giving up featues too.

@AfterBurnett I also have the original Commodore 64 and games on the tapes and disks 😺👍. Also, i have The C64 Mini console 😹😸👍🕹️. And, to be honest, some of the Commodore 64 and Amiga games even inspire me to draw my own comic fan arts and share them on RU-vid 😺👍.

Good points!

Shame you didn't feed back or request any of this stuff. Maybe I would have implemented it.

@@mrv2k2000 - Sorry, would it be possible to make it easily editable? AGS2 still has a superior game library since it has most of the CD32 stuff, I just got sick of sifting through it all and installed the CD32 games that I wanted on the Amiga core in Pandory instead...I could try it again if it's still under development with the possibility of being able to delete and/or add your own games to it at some point. I already had AminiMiga since a few days after I got my A500 Mini and only heard about AGS2 a week or two ago, so I downloaded, installed, and tried it for 2 or 3 days but as I said I got sick of sifting through all of the French and German stuff on the menu to find games in my own language and wanted to get rid of the demos altogether since I never bother with such things...if there's no way to add an option to edit the list, maybe release separate versions for each language and possibly optional demo-free versions? Either way, yeah, I'll probably give it another chance at some point if you're still working on it...I didn't mean to hurt your feelings or discredit your hard work. Also I still kind of prefer the Workbench UI of AminiMiga, as ugly as it is...you know, nostalgia.

I kinda wished I hadn't updated my firmware. Very annoying. Yes the c64 joystick is crap. Hear the competition pro is OK.

Yeah.. no problem. I'm still annoyed I couldn't make a video on it. Tons of folks out there love this sort of stuff on the minis.

Some of those early reviews are just embarrassing.. can we really trust those larger channels that got the mini free? Mmm unsure.

@@CrazyBurger It's all too obvious with most of these early reviews. That controller is a disaster tbh- and that's without mentioning the diagonals on the D-PAD. Have you tried the tank mouse on your PC yet? *eeep*

@@TeamPandory lol no.. sounds ominous!

@@CrazyBurger the a500 mini is the only thing it works well on! :D

Some do.. honestly depends if you are using ADF files or whdload.. and depends on the game. Some of the other platforms like Aminimiga/AGS2 can be better as it's been preconfigured to run better game by game.. but it doesn't always work that way.

It can be a pain.. but just depends what you want to play

Really is straight forward. I've had it day one and only installed the games I want and have fond memories of. Nearly all emulate without a problem and I've done zero tinkering with the settings. It's a great system and I personally don't think the price is too bad either.

I'll have a look.. I'll need to dig my A500 mini back out for some more vids I think. It seems that there's still a lot of interest in it.

Cheers buddy. I haven't had much time with the Amiga mini under Pandory. I have got it working but that's as far as I have gotten 🤔. It is a decent machine, just that the emulation/ gui/ user interface needs some tweaking. I'm sure that will happen especially if there's an Amiga maxi.

Yeah it wasn't perfect at all, the deeper you look into it, it's got issues. Certainly needs a lot of effort to get some games running better. Pandory has its own history too... they initially blocked it via firmware update..

Bargain!

@@CrazyBurger I also ordered another Echo Show 5 for £34.99 (rrp £99.99) on the Prime Deals which are on for the next 2 day's John 🤩🤩👻👻🎉

@@stevemahoney5209 nice.. im sure I got one at a similar price. Pretty handy for the bedroom or kitchen..

@@CrazyBurger Have one in the kitchen and the new one is for the dining room to listen to music. I'm now eyeing up a Ring Video Doorbell 4. Difference over a Ring 3 is a 4sec pre roll of footage. Prime deal £129.99 😀😀

I see this as a 'tinker-toy' Its good enough for games, and possibly workbench 1.3/2.04 but not really Cyberstorm PPC stuff, or hard drive stuff you can do on WinUAE/FS-UAE... Basically a games console with the option of WB. As long as you don't mind the remapping quirks.. then ok. I was seriously expecting RU-vidrs to mention that "quirks" but not (1) single video does.... Surly its irritating no ?? If not, then i guess i'm a loner.

​@@Tech-geekyThe Amiga full size that's been planned will probably ship with a more powerful motherboard SBC. I'd like to see loaded workbench built in as an option such as a music tracker or art package, as well as the carousel (and I'd like that to be editable). Will you buy a maxi Amiga?

I'm not sure to be honest. If it's reasonably priced I probably will.

@@CrazyBurger if it’s a 600 HD sized replica, I think the Amiga full size, will retail for about 130£. After all the C64 maxi has a real keyboard and I believe the Amiga 600 isn’t as big. Don’t quote me on that. A 1200 is way too big for the company to keep costs down. The 500 is too big also, so my guess is the A600 size. Purists might scoff, but it makes sense. I can’t wait for the announcement which looks like Spring 2024. I hope they don’t get scalped, but it’s my concern they will to a degree. I appreciate the Retro Games won’t do a Nintendo ;) interesting times. Keep up the good work Burger, I enjoy your vids.

@@EnjoySynthSounds cheers mate appreciated.. ideally the Amiga maxi or whatever its going to be named is more than just a working keyboard. The details here could decide if I purchase or not.it would be pretty cool if it had a working disk drive.

Any old excuse. These games were not designed with dpads in mind. Sone games it doesn't matter. But games like Cadavar are painful to play. Diagonal moves is painful.

@@CrazyBurger' it burns, it freezes!'. now i have heard it all;)

Lol no.. much more

Yes

Lol 😆 with massive difficulty

@@CrazyBurger if you join 500 CPUs and gpus from this amigas i think it wont be able to run crysis 1

@@Mr11ESSE111 lol I mean even the xbox series s struggled with it!

Lol if it comes down in price then get it. At this price, it's probably a bit expensive for what you get.

Yes, you're right there John. I'll wait for a price reduction 😀😀👍👍