Amazingly, everything worked… except for one lonely Amiga 500+. I was greeted by a dull grey screen. This wouldn’t do, so naturally, I got to work. It seemed like a shame to be opening the ...

But the machine most people will think of as the archetype, the Amiga 500, lacks the power to run most of the software required to do it. If your 500 with its tasteful blue and orange desktop ...

The company followed up a year alter with a full-sized C64 clone. So what’s next? An Amiga 500 replica. It’s called THEA500 Mini, and it’s basically a scale model of the Amiga’s 34-year ...

A reader offers a passionate defence of the Amiga 500 and why he feels its games were more memorable than anything on the 16-bit consoles. Modern culture is not only obsessed with nostalgia ...

The OCS chipset arrived in the Amiga 1000 and cost-reduced Amiga 500, but the more capable AGA chipset was used in the Amiga 1200 and 4000 (there were some other iterations in between as well).

Commodore’s Amiga 500, a home computer that became a popular game system, is receiving a remake. The A500 Mini is being developed by Retro Games Ltd, which previously released a mini version of ...

Most impressively, it can do it on an original Amiga 500, released in 1987. Incredibly, an Amiga 500 from 1987 can run Grind. Image: Bill Bertram To be fair, you'll need a more RAM (1MB ...

Using Chrome's Portable Native Client (PNaCl), Google developer Christian Stefansen has the Universal Amiga Emulator (UAE) running within the browser. Introduced in 2009, Google's Native Client ...

Retro Games has announced the A500 Mini. It is a smaller version of the 16-bit Amiga 500 home computer that originally released in 1987. The A500 Mini will emulate the Amiga 500's original chip ...

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But most people familiar with the computers owned an Amiga 500. That model was released in January 1987 and, thanks to its 16/32-bit CPU, 512Kb of RAM, and amazing graphics and sound---for the ...

when Commodore released the low-cost Amiga 500 in 1987, everything changed. Now the most powerful gaming computer was also one of the cheapest, and game companies jumped at the chance to showcase ...