This is good stuff. Most activity ever in this thread. Let’s keep this thing at the top!!!

Anyone else use RetroX?

Sure do! It was only like half a ball so you could see the edges when you pushed or pulled on it... it didn't spin.

Wico's bat handle was my favorite joystick from that era, although the microswitch version of the Epyx 500XJ was a pretty close second.

I had the Wico clone of the 500XJ too, felt like it was made out of a fleshlight but didn't work nearly as well.

Found an Atari CX-22 on clearance for $5 when KB Toys was closing, that was my jam for trackball games.

Yeah, I know, thats what I meant. Sorry for not beeing clearer. We never used it internally for signalling at all, we could only find it on foreign numbers and only ever looked for it on tollfrees (020 in sweden)

About a year or so after I owned my Amiga I remember spending like $150 to upgrade to 1MB RAM. Holy cow what an improvement back then.

Also, my computer buddy eventually moved away to work for AT&T HQ in Reston, VA. I would visit him like twice a year and I would have a field day going to the Fair Oaks Mall because all we had around here was EB. Fair Oaks had Software Etc and that had an entire wall of Amiga software and hardware. I bought an 8-bit audio board from them one year and it was so bad ass.
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I love mall photos. Totally remember Electronics boutique and software etc. One of my friend's who was a mac user kept buying software from Babbages, copying it then returning it. The one time I went with him was his 3rd return, and the guy at the register put him on a ban list to never be able to buy anything again.

Ahh yes, I did that a few times as well when I couldn't locate a game I wanted on a warez site. X-Copy was my go to program.

The aforementioned Pinsider who taught me how to build red boxes also was friends with the manager of the local EB at the mall. He'd bring all the new games over on a Saturday afternoon and a bunch of us would make copies. Then he'd take 'em back, re-shrink 'em and put 'em back on the shelf.

It was all fun and games until a customer got a virus from one of us.

Something wonderful has happened Your AMIGA is alive !!! and, even better...

Some of your disks are infected by a VIRUS !!! Another masterpiece of The Mega-Mighty SCA !!

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I remember Software Etc. In fact, my local mall that had the one I went to as a kid still has that location (as a Gamestop now). Gosh that was such a cool place with all the Amiga and C64 games on the shelves.

LOL to the virus story. I was far more into C64 than Amiga when I was growing up. Were Amiga viruses as common as early day dos and windows PC ones?

I do remember my grandfather used to get these lists of games that he could order - which looking back now were clearly just some form of mail away pirate software store. I used to look at the lists and circle titles I wanted. Half the time I was just picking based on title name without box art or any knowledge of what I was getting.

wait what? they still make new amiga games?

Alot of new hardware made aswell. That goes for alot of the lovely 80s and 90s none IBM/PC computers. C-64, Amiga, Atari, MSX, Spectrum, you name the platform and you will find a strong enthusiast crowd creating new hw and sw.

I fscken love it!!

Sword of Sodan pinball coming soon with video mode...

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Did stop motion animation and traditional animation back in 1998 on Amiga.
And Drum and Bass music way.. way... back in early 90s.

I played tons of Pinball Illusion, Dreams etc

sooooooooooooo much nice games on Amiga 500 (& Atari ST)

Kick Off 2 was surelly the most played to me, but than Magic Pocket was another top one

I just got my new Amiga 500 case in this past month. Installed my A500 in it this past weekend. My old case was so brittle and broke in several places. I’m glad that a company went to the trouble of making new molds for the A500.

Favorite games - I mentioned earlier in the thread but I loved Maniac Mansion and Zak McKrakin for the C64 and there were Amiga versions as well. Empire is a great strategy game I enjoyed. Dune 2 is great but Sega Genesis version was actually better in my opinion.

Totally forgot about this thread! Anyone here grab the A500 mini? I did and I have been having a blast with it.

Not long after I received it, the great people over at Pandory released a hack for it.

The Pandory Mod is "sideloaded" firmware for the A500 mini which gives you full access to the machine and allows you to run native programs that enable many new game emulators, such as RetroArch. It comes in the form of a WHDLOAD package and exploits a hidden-feature of the A500 amiberry emulator to run native code. It runs completely from USB stick and is 100% removable.

WHAT DOES PANDORY DO?

Pandory enables:

A new native RetroArch menu, with OpenGL video-driver support, allowing many new emulators alongside Amiga, including:
Megadrive
SNES
Playstation 1
32X
Amiga PUAE
RetroArch has been configured with ADF and IPF support.
Commodore 64
Atari ST
PC-Engine / TurboGrafx
MS-DOS
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
Game Gear
MasterSystem
Quake/DOOM ports
ScummVM (RetroArch version)
.. and many more ..
Full root access to your device via Linux Terminal
NATIVE ScummVM Emulator - For point and click adventure games
NATIVE OpenBOR Emulator 3.0 - r7142 - For fan-made beat-em-ups
NATIVE PPSSPP 1.31.1 - Playstation Portable Emulator
NATIVE DOSBox Staging 0.79 (git master) - IBM PC / MS-DOS Emulator
NATIVE OpenCubic Music Player 0.299 (plays MP3/MOD/XM and many more)
NATIVE Video Player - with joypad support (mpv)
Virtual cores to allow retroarch to start the native emulators
Almost ALL settings are configurable in the Pandory/.user folder of the USB stick
Allows switching between the normal A500 menu / Pandory Menu
Thousands of thumbnails for many different games
Allows configuration and mapping of controllers not usually supported by the A500 mini -> pandory bypasses SDL2-input and uses Linux-UDEV directly.
Random background menu music.
Automatic 50hz/60hz menu switching.
A selection of free homebrew-games to test before you add your own games.
Flexible aspect ratio configuration options

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