Your welcome . Glad you enjoyed it. We have a motherfraker edition coming out soon with every whd load and every tosec pack, its over 128 gb so far, trying to get it down a bit
This is the main reason I picked up a Pi 400 in the first place. I had already grabbed Pimiga 1.2 but hadn't loaded it on a card yet, so this video came out at just the right time.
This is so much awesome! So nice to finally have a plug and play Amiga image. Trying to set something up without this is way challenging. This image has everything you need and just works! Thank You!
This is indeed an amazing distro. But there are some issues they will probably iron out in the future. For example I experienced some crashes (leading to the linux prompt) and some apps give a garbled screen (such as one of the protracker versions). Others than that, this is very nice !! Thanks for the hard work of putting everything together for us!
If you ever want to show stuff how to get the Pi 400 (ideally using either Pi os or Twister os) running other computers like the Apple iigs, Tandy Color Computer, and Ti 99 in various ways that would be awesome.
I still have my two original Amiga 1000 systems. Haven't turned them on in over 20 years and I assume the capacitors have all leaked by now. This makes me want to try Amiga emulation!
@@hidden_vault I'm dreading opening up the cases and looking at the motherboards. I can't solder to save my life, so I'd have to find someone to replace the caps for me.
@@ninjamaster3453 I need to learn to solder or find someone who can do it for me! I would love to see them running again since it was the last golden age of computers.
I threw my 500 in a dumpster decades ago, and of course now lament that decision. My 1084s monitor blew a cap in its flyback transformer, so it was kaput. If only I'd had the foresight.
Seems very likely we will have ARM desktops as a norm verys soon. The new Mac Mini is ARM based. I can seem them wiping out x86 on boring work computers.
Chris Edwards is the man behind pimiga. Please donate to its page if you appreciate his dedication and hard work. He is working on a x86 version right now 😊
My first computer was an Amiga 500 when I was stationed in Germany while serving in the Army. I happen to have a Pi 400 kit, so I think we know what will happen next. :)
Nice video. I got this running on my ryzen 5 pc with winUAE 4.4. Runs the same just alot faster. Didn't run on my I7 laptop though, made a magic workbench system disk for that and just used all the data from PiMiga 1.4 so that now looks somewhat different but basicly has the same stuff + games. Could make a PC version for it, would be portable to. Just 1 dir.
Great distro but it does have problems even on overclocked Pi400. games and demos are clearly having issues with syncing audio and video, and various frame dropping even using a top of the line SD card. Same exact demos and software are running just fine using retroarch via retropie. Either the distribution is overly loaded and has optimization issues (seems to run on an old build of raspbian, not even 64 bit), or the current pi generation is not there yet to run the Amiga as configured.
If just emulating the Amiga is your aim. A blinding fast Amiga that blows even vampire equipped Amiga 4000’s out of the water. Does WHD load, all that stuff. Can be used as a development environment.... The Raspberry Pie is just awesome You don’t get that hardware experience. The glow of using genuine hardware, the look and the feel. But MAN. Other than that it is superb. My 400 cost 75 quid for everything.
Now do one on: Rastari! *Hides away from the Amiga fanatics* I kid, I was fortunate to grow up with both the Amiga and an Atari 1040STe. So the war was never a thing for me. :p
at 0:56 is that Fastloaders - Wastelands (from "The Last Ninja") - I was just watching that the other day - a great rendition of an amazing track from the C64 version of the game!
Cool video. But, can you do something beyond Amiga, like perhaps Atari ST, Apple II, and or another classic home computer system. I do realize and like the Amiga, but there is an oversaturation of content and I would like to see just what all the Raspberry Pi 400 can do classic computer wise.
Ofc you can both of them are much less powerfull and easier to emulate You can emulate Mac Os even under emulation inside of the Amiga emulation on Pi400
I used to have an A1200 Amiga when I was younger so this really brings back memories, might be a reason to purchase this kit. I'm not sure how the emulators work with multiple disk games though (specifically the Jaguar XJ220 game)?
Actually only one bad side with the 400: While you can get many languages, sadly no Pi 400 with blank keycaps is available :-( It would be so nice to get blank keycaps to dyesub your own Amiga keycap layout with the Amiga keys (or the BoingBall like on the AmigaOne keyboard, or one Amiga checkmark and one BoingBall for left and right Amiga key) onto the keyboard. It would make the Pi 400 even more nice...
ooooh you have all the iGame artwork, I'm struggling with finding a simple way to get those to display for my WHDLoad games in WinUAE. Was that setup out of the box with PiMiga?
Nice video. With the Pi400, does anyone else have a problem with keys: z (adds a space after each letter) x (automatically returns to a new line after the letter) and 2 (you get ‘2p’ instead of just 2) - when using a text editor, shell etc. Any ideas?
@JM Coulon the pi2 does it fine, i'd just like it to be a dedicated machine capable of switching between different versions for compatibility. I got the pi4 and I love having games for it emulated, but it'd be nice having a smaller box instead of my 3 massive versions that I run for different games. Also, I grew up with the machine, so it'd be nice having the whole environment from boot. It's a long shot, but I can dream. Edit; also, the pc-98 never supported pci. That would have been pretty cool, but we still had killer sound cards.
the mini shares hardware specs with a pi3 and the emulator it uses is a crippled mess, your better off with a pi4/400 and a normal emulator like FS-UAE or the likes.
Looks interesting, wonder how precise the emulation is. That is, could I actually install and run other SW to it. Also, I'd like to know what kind of Amiga the performance roughly equals on RPi 4. I actually bought a RPi 4 and other stuff to try this out. For some reason I could not get the 32 GB image to work (downloaded it on my desktop Linux box) but the 128 GB one seemed to work. Good thing I got a 256 GB memory card. Now if I had a way to get my old disks (own code, pics and anims) to the RPi...
Tracker software is working. I tested some of the protracker versions. About midi, no idea. Maybe it supports some usb to midi adapters ? I have one of there maybe I'll test it.
its beautifuly done but i do find quite a lot of errors when using some of the stuff and never liked scalos, better if it had used a standard o.s. 3.1.4 build
Just comparing the 400 to the 4 and I can get a 4 with 8GB RAM. The 400 only has 4GB RAM, but better processor with 1.8GHz vs the 4's 1.5GHz. I plan on mostly doing retro gaming and emulation so should I go for the 8GB RAM with the 4 or the better processor with the 400?
One Question! How many T-Shirts have you sold? over 1000? if i could buy one for 1,83€ I would have buyed 3 Shirts. For 18.30€ its to expensive for Me. I have HARTZ 4 :-(
I follow your instruction but I just end up with a drive called boot and no visible drive called "kick" any idea why? Use everything used in this video to the word.
My 1200 has 3.0 ROM's so ripping those won't work, right. I have a purchased copy of Amiga Forever Premium Edition 8. My understanding all the ROM images come with that but I can't find them, where are they on the disk, what folder?
I Bought the Pi 400 for exact this purpose! But I want to play the games with my 8Bitdo Controler via Bluetooth. Is that possible? Or is it just with the usb cable connected? Cant find a way to connect it via Bluetooth.
I used to work in an Amiga only store in Los Angeles (KJ Computers). They were quite popular here due to the entertainment industry. Met Ron Thornton (VFX for Babylon 5) and got the chance to set up a couple of A500's for Pat Benetar's kids (her brother was a big Amiga fan) so I have a lot of fond memories of that time. I had no idea that they were considered a mostly British thing.
@@squishybrain Steve I found a business card from the shop I purchased it from last week, while going through an old wallet. It was called Bits and Bytes. I was going to college part time and working full-time at another job, so I envy you actually working at an Amiga store. Meeting one my favorite SIFI shows creative people.
Sorry I hit send for finishing the sentence. Great times. I would had seen a Amiga 4000 with a toaster card in it. Bits and Bytes folded before it came out. Well Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
People looking for a good torrent client should consider Deluge. Open source and free, looks and feels like the old uTorrent did, and most importantly: no ads.
Do you know if you can plug a floppy disk drive on to it and install/play original amiga game floppys on it? My mum would love this if she could finaly play her old favorite game with this!
If your monitor has a VGA port, buy a cheap HDMI to VGA adapter off eBay which has a headphone jack so you could split the sound from HDMI and route it elsewhere. If it only has a DVI port, it’s a real problem as there is no cheap similar solution.
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Hello, I have a problem that the program doesn't load. After following your instructions I switch on the Raspberry pi 400 and I get a screen with four colours and then nothing but a blank screen. Is there something else I should be doing. I was so looking forward to using this so if you can help me that would be great.
I have a question Will the a1200 rom from Amiga Forever work with pimiga without the amiga forever rom key or would I have to add the rom key with the kick rom