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> Featuring perfect emulation of not only the original A500 (OCS) and Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) of future revisions, but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (

> Featuring perfect emulation of not only the original A500 (OCS) and Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) of future revisions, but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) of the A1200 What. That's actually a pretty cool/thoughtful move. I was going to say that the A500 did a good job of making me wish for an A1200... If you look at Amiga sites like Lemon Amiga (tangent: still envious of their clean while also detailed and decorative mobile design) there are lots of comments on games that say "best enjoyed as AGA version".

snvzz 5y ago
In case you didn't gather, they're lying about perfect emulation. Not even WinUAE has perfect emulation, although at least they are genuinely trying, unlike these crooks. The perfect AGA claim is insulting. AGA isn't even close to fully understood or documented.
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  I didn't mention it anywhere in my comment so it's a bit of a tangent, but to me that's just noise, barely even in lying territory for practical purposes. The industry these come from has lied way worse than that. It's like when I buy cost effective ham radio gear off eBay, and the description says the handheld radio puts out 1000W or something. I don't buy consumer- or hobbyist-level gear based on specs or sell sheets alone. I look at the supplier, the photos, the appropriate price range and likely feature set for the product class, and make a guess at how bad it could be. Then I ask if it would still be fun or interesting at half that good. Have never been disappointed. I would treat a sub-$500 retroclone Amiga like a souped-up handheld retro console and expect to happily suffer through the obvious set of flaws while getting in some gaming time. To me it's special that they include even a layer of AGA compatibility, whether we call that a single extra lazy drag and drop or an internal specification complication driven by the passionate desire to include something resembling a fps game :-)
  - snvzz 5y ago
    >I would treat a sub-$500 retroclone Amiga like a souped-up handheld retro console and expect to happily suffer through the obvious set of flaws while getting in some gaming time. To me it's special that they include even a layer of AGA compatibility, whether we call that a single extra lazy drag and drop or an internal specification complication driven by the passionate desire to include something resembling a fps game :-) I would suggest running WinUAE on a PC, PiMiga on a Raspberry Pi, or minimig on miSTer. Perhaps even contributing to these projects in some way or another. Better than giving away your hard-earned money to some crooks that sell a very overpriced emulator-in-a-box (they didn't even write the emulator, obviously), running on some cheap hardware and exploiting the nostalgia of some suckers by making the box resemble an Amiga 500, all the while lying about their product's specifications.
    - themodelplumber 5y ago
      FS-UAE here, hell I was just playing Laser Squad yesterday...
      - snvzz 5y ago
        WinUAE on wine here, when I need an emulator. It's a shame that what once was the "UNIX Amiga Emulator" is pretty much abandoned, and the most active fork focuses on Windows. But I have the hardware and use it. My A1200 is running right now.

snvzz 5y ago

In case you didn't gather, they're lying about perfect emulation. Not even WinUAE has perfect emulation, although at least they are genuinely trying, unlike these crooks. The perfect AGA claim is insulting. AGA isn't even close to fully understood or documented.

themodelplumber 5y ago
I didn't mention it anywhere in my comment so it's a bit of a tangent, but to me that's just noise, barely even in lying territory for practical purposes. The industry these come from has lied way worse than that. It's like when I buy cost effective ham radio gear off eBay, and the description says the handheld radio puts out 1000W or something. I don't buy consumer- or hobbyist-level gear based on specs or sell sheets alone. I look at the supplier, the photos, the appropriate price range and likely feature set for the product class, and make a guess at how bad it could be. Then I ask if it would still be fun or interesting at half that good. Have never been disappointed. I would treat a sub-$500 retroclone Amiga like a souped-up handheld retro console and expect to happily suffer through the obvious set of flaws while getting in some gaming time. To me it's special that they include even a layer of AGA compatibility, whether we call that a single extra lazy drag and drop or an internal specification complication driven by the passionate desire to include something resembling a fps game :-)
- snvzz 5y ago
  >I would treat a sub-$500 retroclone Amiga like a souped-up handheld retro console and expect to happily suffer through the obvious set of flaws while getting in some gaming time. To me it's special that they include even a layer of AGA compatibility, whether we call that a single extra lazy drag and drop or an internal specification complication driven by the passionate desire to include something resembling a fps game :-) I would suggest running WinUAE on a PC, PiMiga on a Raspberry Pi, or minimig on miSTer. Perhaps even contributing to these projects in some way or another. Better than giving away your hard-earned money to some crooks that sell a very overpriced emulator-in-a-box (they didn't even write the emulator, obviously), running on some cheap hardware and exploiting the nostalgia of some suckers by making the box resemble an Amiga 500, all the while lying about their product's specifications.
  - themodelplumber 5y ago
    FS-UAE here, hell I was just playing Laser Squad yesterday...
    - snvzz 5y ago
      WinUAE on wine here, when I need an emulator. It's a shame that what once was the "UNIX Amiga Emulator" is pretty much abandoned, and the most active fork focuses on Windows. But I have the hardware and use it. My A1200 is running right now.