Full-size Amiga A1200 retro gaming system comes armed with trendy HDMI port, 25 basic video games — pre-orders and launch date introduced

Retro Games Ltd has lifted the curtain on the upcoming A1200 remake, and pre-orders can be open from November 10. Units can be launching from June 2026. We nonetheless do not know the value, however we have now extra particulars on the hotly anticipated retro laptop.

The A1200 is actually a Linux single-board laptop working emulation, probably one of many UAE (Ultimate Amiga Emulators) which were round for many years. What makes The A1200 completely different from simply constructing your individual with a Raspberry Pi is that we get a full-sized recreation of the Amiga 1200, and that features a working keyboard. The side-loading floppy drive is not current, and I’ll sort of miss the rhythmic “tick, tick, tick” because the drive sits idle. I’m certain somebody will hack that characteristic in.

Also included are a “tank” mouse and a CD32-style sport controller. The CD32 is a consolized model of the A1200. There can be a collection of 25 pre-installed video games from the Amiga catalog, together with greats such because the Turrican trilogy, Beneath a Steel Sky, and the lately ported The Settlers 2, which took 30 years to arrive on the Amiga! If you want to load more games onto your A1200, you can via USB. Games are typically in ADF (Amiga Disk Format) or HDF (Hard Disk Format). I wonder if games could be installed on a virtual hard disk using WHDLoad? If so, then the A1200 could become quite a nostalgia machine.

Each game has four save slots, enabling gamers to pick up and play games that typically did not have a save function (I’ve still not beaten Treasure Island Dizzy!).

It’s not all about games, and the A1200 comes with an integrated Workbench desktop. Workbench was the operating system for the Amiga, and it blew many minds when it was unveiled at CES in 1984. What version of Workbench is included with The A1200 is unknown. To be period accurate, it would be Workbench 3.0 or 3.1.

The original Commodore Amiga 1200 was introduced in 1992, and it extended the form factor of the previous Amiga 600 into a sleeker case than the original Amiga 500. Under the hood, the Amiga 1200 ran a Motorola 68EC020 at 14 MHz, double the speed of the older Amigas. It had 2MB of Chip RAM, a side-loading floppy drive, and space for an internal IDE hard drive (an expensive addition in 1992). Graphics capabilities were much improved over previous generations. The AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) provided more colors on screen. Older Amigas could render up to 4,096 colors on screen using HAM (Hold and Modify), but this was typically for static images. If you wanted better Amiga graphics on a budget, you paid for the A1200.

Retro Games Ltd has a history of creating slices of our childhood nostalgia. The original product from Retro Games Ltd was a mini version of the seminal Commodore 64. Since then, we have seen full-size versions of the Commodore 64, VIC 20, and ZX Spectrum. Other mini home computers are the C64 Mini Black Edition, an Atari 400, and an Amiga 500, which could be the same Linux SBC as used in The A1200. But that is mere speculation for now.

Pre-orders for The A1200 start from November 10, with units heading out to customers from June 2026.

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