I’ve had 32 GB since 2015. I’m wondering if I should stick with it when I upgrade or if I should go for 64.
The Retro Hour had a chat with the mini Amiga people.
- They developed a full joystick but never used it
- The maxi is not definite, will only happen if financially viable
- If the maxi comes it won’t be a full size replica of the Amiga 500
- ADF support is coming soon
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I had various joysticks.
The two most used were:
I also had one very big joystick. It had a semi-sphere on the left side, and two big buttons on the right side. It had 4 suckers on the bottom, you had to use it on a table.
Can’t find an image of it, it was enormous!
FOUND IT!
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It’s perhaps worth noting I had the 2 MB extra RAM in my A500. Well, actually next to it, in the case that also held a 400MB IDE drive. Still amazing how expandable even the “home computer” model was.
That’s the ensemble back in 2008, the last time I booted it.
The one they sell that looks like a Competition Pro with extra fire buttons seems okay, though. I had two of those, and while they were perhaps not as indestructible as advertised, I never managed to snap one in half. The buttons gave out long before the stick would 
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Which would buy you 2.7 Exabytes of RAM these days. Probably more as you’d certainly get a discount 
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The computer to equip with that amount might not come as cheap, though …
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Ah, Quick Shot 2 Turbo, I loved that joystick. It was easy to repair, too!
Still undecided if I should get the A500 Mini or not.
I think I probably will.
Yes, you should definitely go for a C64!
Incidentally, the command you’d type when you see this screen
would’ve most likely been just that: “GO 64”
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I can’t remember how many joysticks I broke over the years with the C64 and Amiga. Damn you Summer Games. Yes I’m looking at you.
And all the others Winter Games, California Games…
I had some of the above and several others too. I liked the Competition Pro Mini by far the most.
I had the one to the left and to the right. Oh I think I still have both somewhere.
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Don’t forget Combat School 
There was that Amiga game where you typed the alphabet A to Z and got a time. I was down below 3 seconds. Just saying
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4 days left…
4 very long days ^^
Decathlon was the real joystick killer…
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And now I can’t wait for it even more. 
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3 days left ^^
I suppose this Amiga USB keyboard would nicely complement the A500 Mini
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You know, you’ll have to restart counting down to something waaaaay better than an emulator soon
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But the emulator can be used to prepare for that and reply MI1 + 2 in style.
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That’s exactly what I’m going to do with my daughter. ^^
Yes that looks cool too. I didn’t know it. And I think it’s a one time oportunity too:
** THIS IS A PRE-ORDER PRODUCT WITH CURRENTLY ONLY 500 UNITS PLANNED.
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE MADE BEFORE SHIPPING. WE ARE CURRENTLY STARTING THE MANUFACTURING STAGE. **
But for what I’m doing to expensive.
Edit:
Come on, they even have allready a Mini over there:
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