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Amiga Addict magazine's take on this..
AmigaAddict said:
Quoted to make this less painfully long on phones. In general they were enthusiastic (probably because they got a freebie unexpectedly), but there are some odd limitations. First up, this isn't using any kind of FPGA, or any real 68000 hardware. It's just a fairly standard ARM chip - it amounts to a Raspi with a custom launcher that fires up UAE for each game on the menu with whatever parameters attached, far as I can tell. You don't get Workbench, you don't get any productivity software, really it's not an Amiga, it's a console that plays some Amiga games.
Limitations include lack of wifi, and obviously the fake keyboard, but also you can't load ADF and HDF images, which is how most games and applications are packaged. You can use WHDLoad but there's not as much out tthere for that as you'd hope. FIrmware updates can be done with a USB stick so hopefully they'll update it that way and it'll be better.
The issue I have here is that the use case isn't obvious. I don't know who it's for. It physically models the machine well, which is lovely, but the keyboard doesn't work, rendering that modelling effort pointless. It can't load ADF or HDF files, and most Amiga enthusiasts will want to load those. I would argue most hardcore Amiga fans will either have an Amiga, or have configured a Raspi or MiSTer box to do the job. Some might be using WinUAE and might like something physical they can plug into the TV but they'd likely be put off by not being able to use their rom collection. I don't get it. Who's it for? As such it ends up being one of those stocking fillters you find in novelty shops - the joystick with 50 ancient Atari games that plugs into your TV, the little handheld Chinese thing that has fucked up versions of Mario 1-3 and 50 other fake Nintendo games, that kind of thing.
Btw if you like the mag, go buy it.
https://shop.amiga-addict.com/current-issue-and-subscriptions
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