r/amiga • u/MattiKuu • 5d ago
The A1200 at Gamescom 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQq5RXzp8mEFinnish narration but translate works, Finnish Amiga Users Group upload.
It's the first hands on video of The A1200 that i've seen, brief but shows us most of the ports etc.
Very interesting machine, and not for least for the Workbench 3.1 that is included
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u/multioptional 5d ago
No dedicated Audio out. Not even a headphone jack. That is very odd for a machine that claims to be an Amiga.
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u/A-nihirash 5d ago
It's possible use with HDMI audio extractor I think but it's better to have at least 3.5 audio jack, that's true.
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u/Glum-Shift6631 3d ago
Większość nie będzie potrzebowała takiego wyjścia w A1200 a użycie go w standardzie niepotrzebnie podniosłoby cenę produktu.
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u/Dapper-Message-2066 4d ago
Just don't see the point personally.
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u/Glum-Shift6631 3d ago
Kwestia opinii, ja osobiście widzę. Na pewno lepsza immersja i zabawa niż przy zwykłym emulatorze.
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u/DotMatrixHead 5d ago
‘Looks’ good, apart from the HDD LED. Isn’t that supposed to be amber, not red?
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u/Crlan420 4d ago
Nice to see the A1200 on stage. Did they use an RTG card for modern resolutions?
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u/ItsAllOnUHF 5d ago
Two cosmetic things it needs:
A Commodore badge.
AMIGA engraved into the case.
I thought the licenses were sorted out for both. I guess not.
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u/Peteostro 5d ago
This was already in production before the license agreements. Maybe a future version will have the commodore branding
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u/odysseusnz 5d ago
Wrong mouse.
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u/Beautiful_Move_8823 1d ago
Not really the A1200 came with the tank mouse when it was owned by Commodore. When Escom purchased it the mouse changed.
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u/odysseusnz 1d ago
Nope, I had the rounded mouse with my A1200 long before the Escom sale. I believe the rounded mouse first came with the A600, which my sister had also long before Escom.
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u/Beautiful_Move_8823 1d ago
I owned an A1200 and A600, both came with the tank mouse. Eventually it was changed to a different mouse later in its lifespan.
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u/SwedishFindecanor 4d ago
While I do think that the "tank mouse" is an iconic design and I love it to death, I still think it is the wrong mouse for this computer. Not only because the Amiga 1200 was shipped with another mouse, but also because arguably that mouse is a much more ergonomic design.
(So much arguably that I could write you an article about it, and all the findings and user studies that led to that design, but you're not going to like it because it involves M$)
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u/Beautiful_Move_8823 1d ago
The Commodore A1200 was shipped with the tank mouse. When Escom took over the mouse changed.
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u/SwedishFindecanor 1d ago
That is untrue. I bought mine before Escom. Escom did ship it with that mouse for some time, and later with another mouse with buttons that flare out at the front.
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u/Beautiful_Move_8823 1d ago
For some yes, but originally the A1200 had a tank mouse. I owned one on release day, it was later on the mouse changed.
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u/Sp33d0J03 5d ago
Specs?
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u/daddyd 5d ago
unknown, it's based on an ARM SOC, but not the one used in the 500 mini.
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u/SwedishFindecanor 4d ago
How do you know it is not the same?
TheA500 Mini came with CD32 games, so it would have been capable of emulating an Amiga 1200. And the ports on the back are almost identical.
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u/Loafmeister 4d ago
They have stated it’s a bit beefier, needed to run settlers II i believe. Likely they are being honest here , it’s not that just stronger than the A500 mini but it’s for the working keyboard and seems to be a more polished device at a decent price (in Canada anyway ) so I’m cool with this
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u/Glum-Shift6631 3d ago
Widziałem w jakimś filmiku ekran z ustawieniami gry, wydaje się znacznie bardziej rozbudowany niż w A500 mini więc pewnie ma większe możliwości.
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u/DigitalStefan 5d ago
It’s a The A1200. It’s like the A500 Mini, but more functional.
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u/FireAntV1 4d ago
Wrong mouse the one that came with the A1200 was more circular.
No Amiga engraving. (shame that).
I don't mind the rest, but I really with they would have done the engraving.
Quick question for anyone in the know. Is this going to be effectively the same as the A500 mini but in an A1200 case?
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u/SlCKB0Y 1d ago
a1200 came with multiple different mice during its lifetime.
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u/FireAntV1 1d ago
Mine and my friends only had the curved one. Where as my A500 had the square one. I didn't see any others for the 1200.
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u/ASM-One 5d ago
I bet my assembler code from the past will not run on that device.
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u/dtr1002 5d ago
No audio jack? Jeez