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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 i

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

>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.