Always nice to see more NZ people on the forums, I'm based in Christchurch.
The last Amiga group in NZ I was aware of, Amiga Auckland, hasn't been around since 2022, after one of the main committee members passed away. Someone in Auckland still looks after the club software/document library, I can find contact details if interested.
Apparently there's a NZ Fascistbook group, I get contacted by them for repair jobs. Not sure who's on there or the topics of discussion, I don't do social media. Not aware of any physical meetups nationally either.
I tend to focus on national/international hardware repair jobs and support, contract/commercial Amiga hardware development work, and a bit of 68k software development. I'm not particularly interested in games, the Amiga is mainly a work machine. My website, which never gets enough attention from me, has been continuously running on an A4000T for nearly 25 years:
http://amiga.serveftp.net/sysinfo.xgiNot sure about trying to do software development on an unaccelerated A500. While it's possible, the lack of a decent source code editor would be painful. I use CubicIDE myself, mainly for C and ARexx, though you'd need an expanded system to run that.