The A500 Mini Review & Booting from HDD (Commodore Amiga)
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This time a quick review of "The A500" from RetroGames.
Dan Wood The A500 Review - • Amiga A500 Mini Full R...
LawnBoysPost1975 (The A500 Testing & Upcoming Review) - / lawnboyspost1975thehom...
Retro Games (buy) - retrogames.biz/products/thea5...
System Info - amigang.com/amigamini-thea500/
HDD Image - www.aminimiga.com/
Dave Curran (Tynemouth Software) - REAL A500 Keyboard on The A500 - blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2...
#commodore #amiga #a500 - Věda a technologie
NOTE: I had to re-upload this 24--05-2022. Sorry if you posted a comment on the previous video. Where the audio goes out of sync with video - this happened a number of times when using my Elgato HD60 Pro. I've never experienced that with other HDMI outputs - but the sound was in sync perfectly on the PC, and on TVs tested with.
There's a newer firmware out since filming this video :- retrogames.biz/support/thea500-mini/upgrade/
Dan Wood The A500 Review - czcams.com/video/0Vivn-ek8WY/video.html
LawnBoysPost1975 (The A500 Testing & Upcoming Review) - czcams.com/users/Lawnboyspost1975TheHomeOfDave
Retro Games (buy) - retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/
System Info - amigang.com/amigamini-thea500/
HDD Image - www.aminimiga.com/
Dave Curran (Tynemouth Software) - REAL A500 Keyboard on The A500 - blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2022/04/amiga-500-usb-keyboard-and-dual-joystick.html
Update to the latest firmware. There are options for kickstart and other options for added games.
I love the demo program that featured Tubular Bells as its music.
Ty for this great detailed review!!
Glad it was helpful!
You can change (some) cpu emulation settings from gui.
It could be a case of finding the correct settings to make for the game in the systems Options/ Expert-User Game Settings menu. You need to set the mini to be in "Expert Mode" for these options to show up. You can enable "Expert Mode" by going to "Options /Advanced settings and enable Expert mode" this will then add the "Expert-User Game Settings" to the menu in "Game Settings
Two jumpers, glad your house is warmer than ours LOL. I was sat in two t-shirts, two jumpers a dressing gown and a blanket over my knees during winter. Probably down to bad jumper settings :p
Wasn't far of that at XMAS too lol. Hot water bottle daily, blanket too lol. Bloody gas prices - something needs to change somewhere...
19:54 Pixel sharpness was something you'd get on Amiga monitors, but not so much if you were using a knackered portable telly.
Nice video Sir. Thanks.
I would really like the option to just buy the shell of these machines (Amiga, C64 etc, at a much reduced price of course) to stick on a shelf as geeky ornaments. As for the actual emulation I have a Mister, real Amiga and PC based emulation. But, the baby cases are so cool 🙂
Thanks for the HD info . ill give that a try :) ..
I have 3 real amiga500s sitting in their original boxes hid away..i have ordered one of these minis in the spirit of preservation..rather than wear my original amigas out i can simply plug this amiga mini in and away we go...As time marches on the original amigas will just become harder to find....thank you very much for the review.
I wish I had the knowledge to understand everything you said and did. I would love to have my Amiga 1200 back and play the games I did back in the day. Why can’t they just just start making the original computers again. I don’t understand all this emulator stuff. Tried a few times no can never get them working 😞
Great video as always, remember your complaining when trying to play UFO with cycle accurate settings that its an A500 mini... not a A1200 mini ;-)
Exactly =D And tbh it runs A500 games flawlessly!
Great detailed review, thanks. I think the A500 mini was mostly designed and targeted at people who just wants to have a bit of fun and play a few old Amiga games, not really for the enthusiasts. I hope they make the A600 or A1200 maxi at some point with full workbench experience, more power, working keyboard etc. I do love the look of the A500 mini though. The authentic looking mouse and gamepad is a nice touch. And yeah, they should have included a suitable USB power supply as it needs more than the standard 500mA.
well he did get it load floppy disk games images, from hard disk image file, so if it doing that it might just need the wb os load in a bootable state, would liked to see what could be plugged into it, if only usb, bit, and see what would work and what doesn't work
Yup, that's exactly what the Mini is. The pi 400 with Amiberry is probably a better option if you wanted something to run productivity software on.
The mini had been opened up a little with the newer firmwares, but job one is "let people experience Amiga games with a bare minimum of faff", and it does it incredibly well.
@@TheTurnipKing The Pi 400 is considerably slower than the A500. There are a few test video's showing just that. Where the Pi shines though is being able to use Bluetooth and Wifi without breaking out another computer. The other hurdle is currently getting any Pi is almost impossible.
@@owenbevans6062 Can you find one of those videos? Because to be honest I can't really find anything that shows the Pi 400 in a bad light compared to the A500.
@@TheTurnipKing Around the 40 minute mark he test the A500 with the Pi400 czcams.com/video/h552-eR0cGA/video.html
I paid for mine and there was no ringbound user manual in the box. Bloody annoying! 😒
What are you plugging into the usb hub, could that be affecting how it operates? Mine is working fine (as far as I know) with a cheap (came with a true blue mini) unpowered hub. I have 32gb usb stick and a wired keyboard (sr k801) plugged directly into the a500 mini, the hub has 3 the controllers plugged in (mouse, joypad, and a TheC64 joystick). So far, no issues. Only a 1A PSU too.
It could be the cheap hubs I tried! =D
I use an old powered 4 port usb hub with 2 x dongles (1 for mouse & 1 for keyboard - bought separately because the original mouse which came with the kb failed), xbox controller & flash drive. All work 100%. I use a 3 amp power supply.
Surprized Jesus did not get flagged as Tubular Bells 😉
Yup, failed many times trying to get 'State of the Art' to play right ?!?!
I have the mouse + pad (or 2 pads) on an un-powered hub,
with the keyboard and thumb drive on the onboard ports.
DMS? Why is not supported?
Availability alone on any Amiga drops severely outside of EU, like even the A500 was hard for me to come by with other models being next to impossible in NA. Just some food for thought on your challenges, at least you get to repair some. ;)
That's kind of what's funny about this Mini since they likely concern themselves with selling them to previous users but it's likely this will penetrate global markets and get into more regions than the original hardware.
So happy to see a gamepad, not going to light the world on fire with that design lol but cool to see what could have been had they made it for the original launch, a controller that utilizes the full Amiga joystick pinout.
Jesus on E's...awesome demo!
Maybe it is time to recreate all the hard to get COMMODORE AMIGA Custom Chips in FPGA.
The Amiga has already been re-created in FPGA (MiSTer) - and a number of the customs have been re-created in CPLD or FPGA too as dedicated IC replacement parts.
you can use a usb 2 hub 4x but only for the keyboard and mous :)
Unfortunately the mouse does not work on a real amiga --- prob... not following the PS2 protocol.
i was thinking about the 4 th usb port .maybe get a cheep Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and this will save a port .i know it not the tank mouse but needs must
1 dongle on 2 devices
I plug the usb into tv port powers it fine
I use WinUAE for PPaint and Amos. Anything else I use a real A1200. :)
You should rename the video to A500 Mini Review.
Thanks =D Included mini now =D
You missed 'Mini' in the video title!
For us lot, I doubt that's a problem, but for SEO, good point.
Thanks =D Included mini now =D
In your thoughts you would be slowed down! #jesusones my FAV DEMO!!!
vROOM!!!!!
I hope you registered your copy of WinRAR. ;-)
have a tried a 1000TiB Data Center SSD with a SCSILVD 2 SSD adapter board to let you have your whole OS on the disc plus all your applications and games.
So it's just Amiberry in a fancy shell and GUI? an admitedly NICE shell and GUI.
But I'll stick to the MiSTer.
MiSTer is definitely amazing!
@@GadgetUK164 yep, shame the DE10 is ridiculously hard to get hold of now. Lucky I got mine when I did, they're now £70 more expensive if you can even find one.
Might be a Raspberry Pi IV that is running the games using an instruction LUT to enable emulation.
The Super nintendo version of ZOOL is brilliant and a much more relaxed gameplay.. the Amiga Zool feels like Zool is on an LSD trip and he wont stop jumping everywhere (bad controls) HOWEVER.. I had a CD32 and Zool 2 was a much better gameplay experience with relaxed controls and very good graphics..