THEA500 Mini

The A500 Mini
Designer	Retro Games
Manufacturer	Koch Media
CPU	528 MHz quad-core Cortex-A7
Graphics	500 MHz Mali 400 MP2
Memory	256 MB
Media	256 MB
Released	WW: August 13, 2021
Added to Museum	August 3, 2023

The A500 Mini is a miniature dedicated video game console by Retro Games.

It was released worldwide on August 13, 2021. It was designed to resemble the Amiga 500 computer, although the keyboard keys on the case are non-functional.

It comes with a two-button USB mouse and an eight-button USB gamepad. A USB keyboard can also be attached to load the games, or a virtual keyboard can be used via the gamepad. Games are selected via the carousel menu system.

Features

The A500 Mini contains twenty-five built-in games. It uses the Amiberry emulator by Blitter Studio to run the games.

The power is provided by a standard mini USB plug and wall adapter, and the video is output through HDMI.

Technical specifications

The system is much more powerful than the system on which it was designed.

It uses an Allwinner H6 SoC (system on a chip). The system specifications are as follows:

• 528 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (central processing unit)
• 500 Mhz dual-core ARM Mali-400 MP2 GPU (graphics processing unit)
• 512MB RAM (random access memory)
• 512MB flash storage

Since it uses common architecture, the system can be modified to add additional games, simply using the supplied mini-USB cable and open source software.

Games included on The A500 Mini

The following table lists the games included in The A500 Mini.

Title	Developer	Release
Alien Breed: Special Edition 92	Team17	1992
Alien Breed 3D	Team17	1995
Another World	Eric Chahi	1991
Arcade Pool	Team17	1994
ATR: All Terrain Racing	Team17	1995
Battle Chess	Interplay Productions	1988
Cadaver	The Bitmap Brothers	1992
California Games	Epyx	1988
The Chaos Engine	The Bitmap Brothers	1993
Dragon's Breath	Andrew Bailey	1990
F-16 Combat Pilot	Digital Integration	1989
Kick Off 2	Dino Dini	1990
The Lost Patrol	Shadow Development	1990
Paradroid 90	Andrew Braybrook	1990
Pinball Dreams	Digital Illusions	1992
Project-X: Special Edition 93	Team17	1993
Qwak	Team17	1993
The Sentinel	Geoff Crammond Steve Bak (Amiga port)	1987
Simon the Sorcerer	Adventure Soft	1993
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe	The Bitmap Brothers	1990
Stunt Car Racer	MicroStyle	1989
Super Cars II	Magnetic Fields	1991
Titus the Fox	Titus France	1992
Worms: The Director's Cut	Team17	1997
Zool	Gremlin Graphics	1992