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Re: Reasons the A600GS is Awesome!
« on: July 29, 2024, 03:55:28 PM »
I'd owned the A500 mini for a while but that little fake keyboard irritated me and it felt like a toy rather than a computer to actually use, requiring a kludge to get an OS to run.  I was going to buy a Vampire standalone originally then saw the A600GS and was fascinated by it.

Spanner has explained the flexibility of the menu system for launching disk images etc. and those are positives.  Some other major positives for me are that the internals such as the SoC and SD are replaceable in the event of failure etc.  They've used great open source software components to make it tick.


Have to agree, the mini was such a pain to run extra software. I hate not being able to add to carousel.
Then to use my real floppy drive, I have to use pandory. Just because they wont update the inbuild Amiberry.

Its a good menu system, as you can load up usb with games, then import them and remove USB. Its all on GS then.
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Re: Reasons the A600GS is Awesome!
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2025, 09:00:37 AM »
There is no battle. THEA500 Mini is for ex-Amigans. The mainstream mini consoles get their attention and they buy one a birthday/Christmas gift! The AmigaKit products are for people with ailing A1200s or who can't find a cheap one on eBay or RetroPassion. They are two different markets IMHO. However of you want to add Workbench/AGS/Pandory emulator functionality to THEA500 Mini you can and it's at peak maturity in terms of the soft mods! The beta test A600GS project is ongoing! People call that 'support', I call it a work in progress that will one day be feature complete!

Horses for courses. Buy what you wish but suggest the Mini to your nephews and nieces would be my advice!

Whens the latest Amiberry update coming for Mini?
Unlike you, I DO NOT want to mess around extra usb stick, just to be able to use my real floppy drive on Mini.
Like SkullEater, my Mini is just sat gathering dust. RGL do not listen to community, end off.

Betatest?????
So by that logic, windows is the biggest betatest in history.
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Re: Reasons the A600GS is Awesome!
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2025, 02:29:53 PM »
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Yes, except that Windows 11 is feature complete and free so it's more like AGS recently released for the Mini and other Amiga platforms (does the A600GS have a version?). Windows just needs security patches and tweaks to harvest more data from its users from time to time!😉

To be honest with your comment regarding "I DO NOT want to mess around (with an) extra USB stick"; it's very much like changing an Amiga floppy or a console cartridge to put in AGS or an Pandory, an AMiNIMiga distro or simply another collection of games!

What I DO NOT want is a product launching incomplete without its killer feature (the Amistore) and for the users to be leaned on to give suggestions and beta test for free until its a professional polished product like THEA500 Mini already is. I look forward to the day when the 'finished' A600GS demonstrates it's awesomeness with fully functioning Amistore and the ability to buy something like Metro Siege over the Internet and then play remote co-op 2-player using all this trumpeted about plug and play technology marketed as being included as standard! I guess you'll be able to crow about how irrelevant RGL is as that point but you certainly are not there yet! Happy bug hunting! I'll be playing Fire and Forget on AGS for the Mini or animating on DPaint using AMiNIMiga!

Sorry, there a some features I would like to see in windows. So again by your crazy logic. Its still in beta.

I can download all the packages you have and run them on GS. Whats your point. You just moan about everything you can.
Jeez, a serial port was put on NG, just because of you. Yet your still moaning. Now about Amistore. It will happen, just stop going on about it.
I find it crazy, just because pandory did what they did, RGL is off the hook in your eyes. I'm sorry, just wrong.

The best thing of all, your moaning about GS and you don't even own one. I own both, so I can comment, having used both.

What would make Mini killer for me, is updated Amiberry and ability to add games to carousel (have multible).
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Re: Reasons the A600GS is Awesome!
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2025, 05:25:50 PM »
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And I'm grateful and interested in the A1200NG. Also looking forward to seeing Amistore in all it's glory. I reserve the right to call it "awesome" then!  😉

In the meantime AGS is pretty awesome.

Then theres no talking to you, you don't own one yet keep complaining about it.
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