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A600GS Computer from AmigaKit Ltd

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Information/overview was a bit thin at the posted link.

This video goes into some more details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqALCrVuiY

FYI the demo starts at 11:32

So what are the text-based facts / details, w/o having to spend time on watching another one of these videos?

It looks like it's another ARM emulation box. Specs unknown, but no doubt it's going to be some kind of Linux + UAE. It will do nothing that a Raspberry Pi + emulator won't do*. It also does not have a license to call itself an Amiga, nor does it have licensed Kickstart or Workbench. Really not very compelling unfortunately.

They're trying to sell it as a sort of entry point into the modern 68k Amiga ecosystem for enthusiasts as well as a plug-and-play gaming box, but I feel like both niches are well covered by other devices.

* The more expensive tier is apparently going to have DB-9 ports for classic Amiga mice and joysticks, so there's that... I guess...

Yeah, looks pretty generic from a hardware point of view

Shame it has no Amiga aesthetics - even making the case beige would have been a nice touch.

I can’t seem to find an image of it - is that black thing the box or the unit itself?

I think the black thing is the computer.

Think C64GS, Amstrad GX4000.

The guy holds it up briefly on the video - it's clearly a prototype, but it's a small black box, open on two sides, one side with dual db9 ports, the other with the usual sbc ports, usb, hdmi, etc etc

Don't know which sbc it is, but it looks pretty simple, with the db9 looking to perhaps be a daughterboard/hat/extension hooking up to GPIO type connectivity at a guess

I suspect most of the development is in the software with the GUI, and licensing various packages etc.

The Amiberry people made a nice open source emulator for Raspberry Pi.

Then someone saw a business opportunity putting a dirt cheap arm board with Amiberry preinstalled in an Amiga500-shaped box, without crediting anyone or anything. And they sold a bunch of them. That's Amiga 500 Mini.

Now I guess AmigaKit, looking at that, wants to make bank too.

TL;DR: Just use the open source Amiberry on the Raspberry Pi it is meant to run on, and don't give these scavengers your hard earned money. Alternatively WinUAE, fs-uae, MiSTer miniMig core.

CPU? GPU? I/O? Or there is non there in?

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