Thanks to the A500mini, I've had the chance to try two or three dozen games I missed the first time round. I have to say it's been a real mixed bag.

Which made me wonder - from a modern standpoint (which is an entirely unfair vantage point)*, how many Amiga games have a satisfying user experience in 2022? 10%? 50%? More? Less?

If you were to give a random Amiga game to someone to play, who didn't grown up with them, which ones might stick and which ones would be grating (in terms of unintuitive controls, insta-death, confusing gameplay, weird difficulty scaling etc)?

Eg: I had the experience of giving sensible soccer to someone who got ticked off that the ball got "unstuck" from the player the faster they ran. And I completely get it. That is annoying and weird.

Having said all that, there have been games that have a suprisingly good UE. Second Samurai and Superfrog more or less "just work" as you would expect in 2022 (which suggests we grokked the rules of platforming a long time ago). Lucasarts games are still engaging (though point and click games have gone the way of the dodo). Lotus is still enjoyable.

=* Realistically, we need to appreciate that "the rules" were still being written 30+ years ago and that many games were experimental.

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Hi there,

I'm looking for visualisers to run on my Amiga Mini, like the ones that came with Winamp!

I'm assuming there's some cool demos I should check out too?

Please hit me up with any strange visual stuff I can find for my mini!

Thanks :)

based on: https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/uh0ff8/battletech_pod_version_30_server_software_archive/ the battle tech VWE 3.0 client runs on an amiga 500 system. I do not own a amiga 500 and I am unfimiliar with the file architecture to make a rom or image that is bootable on FS-UAE any help is greatly appreciated. a tutorial would be greatly appreciated so I can have a greater understanding of what I am looking at. there is no file extenstion which is very a strange new world to me.

file is structured like: VWE Release 13.1.8\VWE Center Kit\Mac Files\2.5-3.0 Related Files\VWE Release 13.1.8\BattleTech 13.1.8\Console Files\Game Files\Cockpit Software

.finf .rsrc amiga_2_5 amiga_3_0 battletech_68020_res battletech_ti_res btAudio.dld btAudio.dld.no_icom btsecond2_5 btsecond3_0 DEVELOPMENT R.BIN2_5 R.BIN3_0 ROM2_0 ROM2_5 ROM3_0 

Wondering if there are any hard cases available and compatible with the A500 Mini.

Seen this soft case on EBay but in my opinion I think is not that protective against an accidental drop.

Seems to be the only case available for the A500 Mini that I could find.

please help. Does anyone know where I may find the 8.5 firmware Phase 5 Fastlane z3?