Use REAL Amiga Joysticks With The A500 Mini! THREE Adapters Tested! 

Thanks man :-)

Pretty sure there were a few that wanted a solution... Hope this video is useful! :-)

The solution we presented is ... Pretty much zero latency :-) It's also a fun little project. Won't take you an hour, and you could make two for 20$

Yeah, there are a lot of better options than the a500mini, and we mentioned this in the review. But it has sold pretty well, and many are not comfortable in making 3d models or boards to change amiga keyboards to work with it. I made a 500+ keyboard work with a pi using an Arduino Leonardo board in the past. It's pretty cool, but I'd rather have it be a real Amiga. There's always something missing when it comes to emulation, just knowing that it's not the real thing. (Enter coca cola ad)

@@TeamPandory I definitly also prefer the originals - with some tinkering/upgrading. At the moment my main project is to rework a CDTV with CD-Drive beyond repair. So I try to add an notebook slot-in drive, an IDE-controller and a pistorm. Is a lot harder as it sounds. It has to be an IDE-drive (as I need to have analog-out), but notebook drives have Master/Slave/CS set in firmware - mostly slave. Only way I got it to work (testing on a Budda-Flash in my A2000) was using 50->40 IDE-Adapter with CS torn to GND, an SATA-Host to IDE-Konverter (only one out of 3 tested converters worked) and an IDE-Host to SATA Adapter on the Buddha. But using an IDE68k in the CDTV under a Pistorm (if it is not an original CDTV it should at least be powerfull) does not work (I removed the CD-Controller to avoid autoboot-conflict). Pistorm deactivates mapping of the scsi.device adresses if it does not find a hd... Next thing to try is A500IDE. A long way to go... At least I found my Pi Zero 2, so I can build a flat pistorm (glueing Pistorm and Pi Z 2 side by side with epoxy and using 40 short cables to connet them), so if A500IDE works I still can mount both on top of each other and still close the CDTV. Sadly Pistorm seems not to support USB CD-drives (USB-flash is supported as HD if you set the mounting parth, but setting path to CD drive seams not work :-( ) But beside having some real nice Amiga stuff I would realy like a Pimiga in A600 design with floppy and CD-drive. I always used my Amigas more for work than gaming back in the days - so I see a fast Pimiga more as a "next step" to try out, what would have been possible if Commodore has not gone out of business. Trying to get an old 24 needle Pinwriter back to work was not a joke by the way - the quality with Turboprint was quite nice (the tinitus was not so nice of course). I used it a lot to print matrices for spirit carbon printing - I even have such a machine somewhere. Printing something in this techniqe would definitly retro to the extreme, even if using emulated Amiga ;-)

@@oleurgast730 pistorm does really drive an amiga home. It's insane to see it pushes the Amiga so far, but I'm hoping more in regards to game compatibility. A500+ pistorm, a600 w furia, and an a1200 with Apollo 030 over here ;-)

Yeah, we found the controller to be really half baked. Here's your solution 🐱

If they leave the pcb work to someone that won't mess it up, perhaps :)

@@TeamPandory a point

Cheers!

John likes it HARD :D

If you mean to make a BBC Joystick controller work as a USB controller, I can't see how it wouldn't work. A bit of experimenting and you should be good

@@TeamPandory no I was meaning the other way, use another type of joystick ie 15pin pc or 9 pin on a BBC computer, I have some really nice analog 15pin joysticks that love to use on my BBC computer

@@juzziepope You may be able to create an adapter by using female and male db9 connectors, but as for 15 pin ANALOGUE joysticks- I don't think the BBC can handle that, can it? The DB9 joysticks usually stuck to digital inputs.

@@TeamPandory don’t think so which is why I was thinking something like the pi board In between, just like to use a analog style joystick on my Beeb

The last two sticks? I have the zipstick, the bug, and a quickshot

@@TeamPandory Thanks!

@@TeamPandory Thanks!

It's one of the RU-vid ones. You can use the shazam app on android or iPhone to find the song

Same problem ...

Check the GitHub regarding the firmware. I'm guessing the Mac doesn't like xbox360 style controllers, so change it to maybe dinput.

You'll be needing to add maybe the SNES mini cores, but not everything is fully compatible... is there anything in particular you're after? In the next version we'll be adding a good few.

Just being a lil bit sad that the A500 is a restricted system missing an open firmware.. And, yes, a release v2.0 for the a500 with All retroarch cores would be soo nice - but it also would be really nice to boot up 'Dragons Lair' and 'Space Ace' from Daphne (maybe via Dosbox) on this hardware..! The Commodore team tried their best to make it back in the day - with a shitload of floppies - but they never succeeded... ;) Maybe there is a way to patch a *Batocera* launcher in the boot of the a500 startup..? Damn I suck at coding.. I Love You Guys!! :) Keep Retro Alive!

@@Whirre to do so, pull out the board and replace it with one that supports batocera. We're jumping through hoops enough trying to get this working, but that's what you get with a system that doesn't want to be opened. ... Or at least RGL don't want anything to be altered

Well, we did something... Try this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GW2fzOMgzcI.html

@@TeamPandory that makes it work on the A500?

@@cartrips9263 I can't even remember, it's been a few months since trying this

Check the retro32.com shop- or make it yourself. It isn't too difficult to do.