Amiga A500 Mini Announced

Wow! This is amazing. I have the C64 Maxi (and would buy an Amiga Maxi in a blink). I'd love if it could emulate the 3000UX and have an ethernet port (or wi-fi).

The extremely cool thing about the Maxi models is that a lot of the experience of retrocomputing is interacting with the device itself. That may be less important with Amigas and ST's because their keyboards are closer to the standard layouts we use these days so that the mismatch is not as significant as it is with a C64 or 8-bit Atari.

I'd be delighted to be able to actually work from an AMIX (or Atari Unix, Acorn RISC/UX, or A/UX) workstation. I did that a lot from an AIX 3.1 IBM and it was quite workable on a fast network.

Is it only for games, or can it run the other types of Amiga software? A friend of mine had one at the beginning of the 90's, and he mainly used it for word processing. Too bad I haven't seen him in more than a decade, because he probably still has that computer in his basement. He hardly ever threw anything away.

I thought the desktop was revolutionary, because it handled windowing better than Windows - faster and smoother. Also, the icons seem to have been resizable and had transparent backgrounds so they didn't have to be rectangular looking. The CLI was a weird hybrid DOS with a near Unix-like feel.

The copy below the fold talks about THEVIC20, is that another product from the same vendor and just a copy/paste mistake?

Coming early 2022... let's hope for a Maxi version, too!