A500 Mini is the Amiga mini console you've always wanted

(Pocket-lint) - Retro Games has announced it is pursuing up its mini console based connected the C64 with different reimagined Commodore machine: the Amiga.

The A500 Mini is coming aboriginal 2022 and volition diagnostic 25 Amiga gaming classics, including Worms, The Chaos Engine (by The Bitmap Brothers), and Simon The Sorceror.

You volition besides beryllium capable to side-load further Amiga games onto the mini console utilizing a USB stick, with afloat WHDLoad enactment and aggregate options.

Saving and resuming games is made easier than ever, portion the instrumentality features emulation of the archetypal A500 (OCS), Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) and the Advanced Grapgics Architecture (AGA) of the much almighty A1200 model.

As good arsenic the tiny Amiga-inspired console, you volition get a 2-button rodent and 8-button precision gamepad.

The A500 Mini volition besides enactment with an outer USB PC keyboard.

"In this archetypal mini mentation of The A500, we person created what we judge gaming fans volition love, and volition spot arsenic the improvement of mini games consoles," said the managing manager of Retro Games, Paul Andrews.

The A500 Mini volition beryllium priced astatine £119.99 successful the UK, €129.99 successful Europe, and $139.99 successful the US.

You tin inactive find the C64 Mini disposable online, often for a bargain terms these days.

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Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 10 August 2021.