07 October 2021, 18:17 | #141 |
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This is cute but I always wanted to do more with my Amiga than use it as a games console. It always depressed the hell out of me that more people treated the amiga as a toy than as a serious computing platform. The games were fun, don't get me wrong, but doing things like Vista terrain animations, making art in Deluxe Paint and DigiPaint, and 3d renderers like Turbo Silver, etc., were "serious fun" for me.
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There's plenty of productivity software that holds up well, some that doesn't ... and a lot of dross. Whatever floats your boat, be it original hardware or a Raspberry Pi simulator with an onscreen keyboard. |
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07 October 2021, 20:41 | #144 |
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You can use this for productivity as well, connect a usb keyboard and mouse is included ...
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07 October 2021, 21:40 | #145 |
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30 October 2021, 12:10 | #146 |
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What I'd buy in a second is the following product:
A keyboard formed like a A500, with space inside for a couple of SSD harddrives with USB3-connection, a built-in USB3 hub, 2 Amiga joystick ports to connect retro joysticks. The keyboard should be fully functional and of good, lasting quality. Combine this with the joypad and tank mouse for the A500 Mini. This way, it would be possible to just run everything in simulation on a Windows PC, but still have the "Amiga-feeling" |
30 October 2021, 18:36 | #147 |
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30 October 2021, 19:09 | #148 |
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If you are used to the Amiga 1000 feeling that is, but most used the all in the keyboard models
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30 October 2021, 19:14 | #149 |
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Things the A500 Mini didn't get right from Day 1...
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08 November 2021, 01:20 | #150 |
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It looks like its will be using WHDLoad to loads the games in its carousel, it has Pinball Dreams as one of its games that was never used a controller to play it so it probably using the WHDLoad version cause all games have to be able to be played without a keyboard.
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08 November 2021, 12:21 | #151 |
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Perhaps we need to wait and see what actually comes out first?
Unless you want to criticise the form factor (which they are obviously aware of - hence the ability to plug a keyboard in). For me, this may actually be something they got right... Mine is on order so we shall see. |
16 November 2021, 11:16 | #152 |
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A500 maxi would be preferable but this looks good.
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12 December 2021, 00:58 | #153 |
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Today I received an email regarding my A500 mini pre-order.
The release date has been adjusted to 2022-03-31 :-/ |
12 December 2021, 01:38 | #154 |
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I would be interested, but only if it can be hacked to act like real Amiga. Have a hard drive and OS.
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12 December 2021, 19:28 | #155 |
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I’m waiting for the A500 MaxiPad.
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12 December 2021, 20:57 | #156 |
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