The Amiga 500 Mini

[AgentCooper]

Great news for people of a certain age such as me, early next year Retro Games will be releasing a fully licensed (and somewhat downsized) version of the Amiga 500! There’ll be an initial 25 games, only 12 of which have been named so far, and potentially more to come at a later date.

Amiga 500 mini console announced with Worms and Chaos Engine

It’s been a long time coming but the Commodore Amiga is finally getting its own mini console, including some of its top games.

metro.co.uk

I’m going to keep an eye on this one, used to love playing on ours as a kid!

 

[Insane.Pringle]

I very much want!!

i can remember play on my mate Amiga 1000 i think it was. my favourite game was where you played a tank on a terrain(usually mountains) and had to angle your shots to hit the other tank with what ever ammo you chose. It's been so long I've forgotten the name of the name although it's very similar to Worms 😁

EDIT: just did a search for the game, it's called Scorched Tanks

 

[Scott]

There was a similar game I used to play called Tanx, absolutely loved it.

Amiga is and, always will be, one of my favourite pieces of electrical hardware. I absolutely adore it. I always have a functioning version or other (usually on PC via UAE). Not sure if I'll be in the market for such a piece of kit but it's interesting regardless.

 

[AgentCooper]

I very much want!!

i can remember play on my mate Amiga 1000 i think it was. my favourite game was where you played a tank on a terrain(usually mountains) and had to angle your shots to hit the other tank with what ever ammo you chose. It's been so long I've forgotten the name of the name although it's very similar to Worms 😁

EDIT: just did a search for the game, it's called Scorched Tanks

There was a similar game I used to play called Tanx, absolutely loved it.

Amiga is and, always will be, one of my favourite pieces of electrical hardware. I absolutely adore it. I always have a functioning version or other (usually on PC via UAE). Not sure if I'll be in the market for such a piece of kit but it's interesting regardless.

There were a plethora of similar games out around the same time. The best of which will always be Scorched Earth, I played that to death well into my early twenties with friends thanks to the joy of shareware.

But Tanx was brilliant too, I seem to recall I got my copy free on the cover of CU Amiga magazine!

 

[slimbob]

I had a C64 but never managed to get an Amiga. Lucky for me one of my mates down the road got an Amiga and my other mate got an Atari ST. So I had the best of both worlds! My next machine was a Sega Megadrive which came with a joystick and Batman game. The excitement was almost too much.

 

[ubuysa]

I had a C64 but never managed to get an Amiga. Lucky for me one of my mates down the road got an Amiga and my other mate got an Atari ST. So I had the best of both worlds! My next machine was a Sega Megadrive which came with a joystick and Batman game. The excitement was almost too much.

Ah the Commodore 64. Did you ever buy this book?

 

[AgentCooper]

Ah the Commodore 64. Did you ever buy this book?

I've never read the book but I know one of the authors. Good guy

 

[slimbob]

Ah the Commodore 64. Did you ever buy this book?

No I never even knew this book even existed. Back then the title alone would have sparked my curiosity so much that not buying it was no longer an option. Did you have a C64 and did you invest in this book? If you did please spill the beans what was the secret

 

[ubuysa]

No I never even knew this book even existed. Back then the title alone would have sparked my curiosity so much that not buying it was no longer an option. Did you have a C64 and did you invest in this book? If you did please spill the beans what was the secret

I'm one of the authors. I was given a C64 to review for the old (and long dead) Computing magazine. I wrote a lot of technical articles for them at the time. Babani publishers contacted me after the review inviting me and my close friend to write a technical book on the C64. By then we'd found a way to extend the features of the built in BASIC interpreter in the C64 and the code for that (in hex) is in the book.

 

[slimbob]

I thought there was something fishy about Agent Cooper's reply . That's very impressive!, I see it is on sale on eBay and one recently sold in June. So people still love the C64 and want to know the secret. If I bought your book back when I had a C64 (9 years old ) I would be hoping the secret was if I pushed a variety of specific keys simultaneously on the night of of a full moon it would trigger my C64 to metamorphize into a brand new Tron arcade machine, anything less would of been most disappointing.

 

[ubuysa]

I thought there was something fishy about Agent Cooper's reply . That's very impressive!, I see it is on sale on eBay and one recently sold in June. So people still love the C64 and want to know the secret. If I bought your book back when I had a C64 (9 years old ) I would be hoping the secret was if I pushed a variety of specific keys simultaneously on the night of of a full moon it would trigger my C64 to metamorphize into a brand new Tron arcade machine, anything less would of been most disappointing.

I'm glad someone is still making money from our book. We only received royalties for three years. It didn't make us rich!

 

[slimbob]

I'm glad someone is still making money from our book. We only received royalties for three years. It didn't make us rich!

Even so it is a great accomplishment!!

 

[Martinr36]

I'm glad someone is still making money from our book. We only received royalties for three years. It didn't make us rich!

I knew the guy who created "World Cup Willie" for England back in 1966, he framed his final royalty cheque, it was for about 15P

 

[CMP01]

No Amiga here, nor Atari ST (both of which my besties of yore speak much of) I did have a C64 though going into my teens, with disk drive, which afaik was quite rare for most casual/gamer types. Before that, and we're talking mid 80's now, I got a Dragon 32 hand me down that I was too young for at one point, and an Intellivision one Christmas.

My mate had some Amiga games that were good for the time (even against Nintendo/Sega offerings) that I wished were on C64 at the time. Damned if I can recall the names though, except for Shadow of the Beast. In one you played as a knight questing through a dark fantasy land, every location had different monsters to fight and clear. One monster was like a nightmare Swamp Thing that was nigh on unbeatable. In another you pilot a mech/walker fighting in different eras, one player could control the movement and another the guns.

 

[AgentCooper]

Ah, Shadow of the Beast. We got the sequel as a freebie with our Amiga and despite every single member of the family having a good go, we never managed to complete it. That’s why I’m hoping it’s included on the Amiga Mini, I’ve got unfinished business.

In fact, Shadow of the Beast II definitely deserves to be on there for its game over screen alone, it’s a belter:

It’s also one of the games that really showed off how good the Enhanced Chip Set was at audio, Amiga games always sounded better than their competitors. The Karamoon theme from this game is a good example, thirty odd years later and I still hum it when I’m doing the dishes.

 

[Scott]

SOTB3 was my favourite of the series. Really amazing games. Impossible to complete though and starting from the beginning each time was awful.