AmigaVision is the ultimate Amiga games & demo scene setup for MiSTer & Pocket FPGAs, Raspberry Pi + emulators, and real Amiga hardware.

To find out more, visit the AmigaVision site.

After releasing the biggest update in AmigaVision’s history, we got a lot of requests to make it available for TheA500 Mini emulation console too.

If you don’t know about TheA500 Mini, it was a somewhat underpowered — but very cute! — Amiga “mini” emulation box released in 2022. The decent industrial design was unfortunately let down by sub-par performance, and it only came with 25 games.

TheA500 Mini Box

Nevertheless, they were a pretty popular gift, since it was launched at a decent price point, and was widely available in electronics stores around the world, so there’s a fair amount of them out there.

So it’s time to breathe new life into an old device with AmigaVision Mini!

🎉 The Good News

By installing AmigaVision Mini on your TheA500 Mini, you get:

  • 2,000 of the best Amiga games with no duplicated PAL/NTSC/OCS/AGA versions, available in carefully curated categories.
  • Game manuals for close to 2,000 games are directly available with QR code links directly in the launcher.
  • Our legendary demo scene selection.
  • The fastest-booting Amiga setup available for TheA500 Mini.
  • A complete Workbench setup with apps such as ProTracker for reliving those good old days when you were making stuff on your Amiga.
  • Our best-in-class launcher and game/demo selection you know and love from the “full fat” AmigaVision releases on other platforms.
  • Unlike other setups that require you to connect a keyboard and two joysticks to a separate USB hub and then manually change settings after launching the emulator to use two joysticks for multiplayer, we include two separate options that lets you choose either Mouse + Joystick or 2 Joysticks depending on whether you want joystick multiplayer gaming or mouse gaming/productivity/demoscene — since TheA500 only has two USB ports.

We hope this gives your old (and likely neglected 🥲) TheA500 Mini some new life! It’s a great little device to put in a small bag with a couple of USB controllers and bring over to some friends for a fun couch gaming session or to reminisce about the old days by watching some Amiga demo scene magic.

🚧 Limitations

Be aware of the following limitations:

  • TheA500 Mini is too slow to run many Amiga games properly, even with tricks like JIT, which will break compatibility with other games. TheA500 Mini is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3, and since you know we recommend something at least as fast as a Raspberry Pi 5 for Amiga emulation, you will encounter issues.
  • It runs at the absolutely worst resolution for scaling Amiga graphics cleanly — 720p. The minimum resolution for proper Amiga scaling is 1080p. So you will either have to set it to 3× scale to maintain integer scaled pixels, resulting in a very small image on-screen which only uses a fraction of your display — or you will have to stretch the image to full-height and accept uneven scaling.
  • Unlike every other AmigaVision supported platform, we do not control the emulator nor the emulator settings. It is quite poorly configured by default, and uses a very old Amiga emulator.
  • It is limited by the FAT32 file system it uses, so hard disks can only be 4GB or less. You can of course add more storage by spreading things over multiple hard drives, but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze, as they say.
  • It is not capable of switching between NTSC and PAL games on-the-fly, so we recommend keeping it in PAL mode — but that does means that some games run at the wrong speed and at the wrong aspect ratio. C’est la vie.

These are all limitations that are fundamental to TheA500 Mini hardware and operating system, and unfortunately not something we can fix.

🔮 What About TheA1200?

No specifications for the upcoming TheA1200 product have been published — even though they are taking pre-orders — so we have no idea whether it will be possible to make the experience on that device better, but we can hope. We will certainly take a look at bringing AmigaVision to it when/if it is released.

If you are looking to buy an Amiga setup, take a look at our Best Amiga Available in 2026 article, which has a comprehensive breakdown of all the available options on the market, and some strong recommendations.

🛠️ Stay Updated & Help Us Make AmigaVision Even Better

If you find any bugs or settings that need improvements, file a ticket on the AmigaVision web site.

AmigaVision is an open source project, and we welcome contributions from the community.

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Enjoy the best of what the Amiga platform has to offer!