Retro Gaming Magic...

[Sterillium]

I'm trying to buy a cool present doe someone I know was a big gamer back in the 1990s - their platform of choice was an Amiga.

I've seen "plug in" retro games consoles for old Sega / NES /Atari games etc, but I wondered if anything similar exists for retro Amiga gaming?

[sjg]

Raspberry Pi running Retropie is a great way to do this for Amiga and everything else. You can have a nice small box like the “mini” retro consoles, plug into a modern HDMI TV and have a suitable joystick (and maybe keyboard too) hooked up.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Amiga/

[DoctorX]

Sterillium said:

I'm trying to buy a cool present doe someone I know was a big gamer back in the 1990s - their platform of choice was an Amiga.

I've seen "plug in" retro games consoles for old Sega / NES /Atari games etc, but I wondered if anything similar exists for retro Amiga gaming?

Something like this, or source the bits yourself. Install Retroarch and search the internet for ROMs or do what I did and just buy a card from eBay. I assume Amiga stuff is on there but someone more knowledgeable will no doubt advise.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Components-Latest-Raspber...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32gb-Recalbox-Raspberry...

[bigandclever]

Has he got the internet?

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga

The thing you're looking for was called the armiga, but they stopped making them a couple of years ago. You might get lucky with some googling.

[Sterillium]

Thank you all, so far, however this is going to need less than zero technical ability on my part, and almost the same on his part...

Really I was hoping for "plug and play" but possibly I'm barking up the wrong tree.

[anonymous-user]

ive got amiga forever on my pc, works well.

[br d]

I'm getting my OH an RG350 Anbernic, they look tons of fun and run all kinds of retro stuff. Loads of reviews on YouTube.