Remake of the Iconic Amiga 500 Launches Next Year

The A500 Mini is, as the name implies, a miniature remake of The Amiga 500. It’s a new system being worked on by Retro Games, the same company behind the brilliant C64 Mini, a miniature version of the Commodore 64, one of the most famous systems of its time.

[darthv72]

Pretty neat that it will also emulate the AGA chipset found in the 1200 and 4000. I miss my A1200 but if this can also be used to play CD32 ROMs (since that was an A1200 with CD drive) then this could be a really neat mini to have. The controller pictured is a CD32 style so Id guess the answer is yes.

[olorin818]

My parents owned it and I grew up with this as a kid. Ishar series. Settlers, Dungeon Master, and countless others. Such classics. Definiately one to keep on the radar.

[mch2011uk]

I had an Amiga 1200 back in the early 90s so this is a yes from me.

[Knightofelemia]

This is before my time I might snag a C64 mini always been curious about pc games from back in the day. I wonder if the ZX Spectrum will get a mini next or if one of the old Atari pc's will get a mini also?

[ED-E]

Oh hell yeah, gimme gimme.

[ScootaKuH]

I never had an amiga but my cousin did, I was so jealous! I have a friend who still has an A1200.

Even though I never owned one I spent so many hours on my cousin's, so many memories!

This looks brilliant, seems like it comes with a great selection of games and of course it's also AGA compatible. I like the fact that you can also add your own ROMs, this was also one of the main attractions of the C64 mini

Between the Evercade VS, Playdate, Steam Deck and now the A500 mini, my bank account is going to hurt! 🤣

[mark_parch]

I had an amiga 1200 and my brothers mate from down the road used to copy games for us so we had loads lol. really fond memories of games like the settlers, flash back, cannon fodder, chaos engine, alien breed, north vs south, walker, brutal sports football and james pond robo cod to name a few. I will definitely buy this if it has the good enough games

[EvertonFC]

Brings back the amiga v atari ST fanboy playground wars memories
We fought face to face back then not behind a keyboard.
Yes we had fanboy wars even back then

[mixelon]

This is great just to (re)raise the profile of the Amiga.. By far my favourite retro platform. I have a reasonably pimped-out A1200 now but still see the appeal of things like this.

Anyone interested in the Amiga should head over to EAB or look up Amigabill on twitch. We're still a very active community with a surprising number of commercial releases. (Even boxed ones, with printed manuals and everything else you miss about the old days, haha) It's pretty surreal. I'll probably get one of these to test what I'm working on, the fact it supports sideloading is pretty great. :D