Raspberry Pi 400 First Look and RetroPie+Amiga emulation with AmiBerry!

While it emulates a 040 the speed should be way higher of a real one, faster then a 060 for a considerable amount as long as jit is set

after all buy rpi5 pi 500 come then we have real pi amiga 500 :P

Same mouse problem in Amiberry on the A500 mini.

Bluetooth audio not an option?

I hope the next all in one pi, comes with internal storage. Sd cards are old hat.

I could not

I could setup retropie

Tearing my hair out, cannot set up Retropie or Recalbox for Amiga...it just doesn't like my Kickstart ROMs. I was able to make a Pimiga and run games that way though.

When i understand how to do

every time i try an amiga emolator of anykind, i always struggle with the speed of the new setup. especialy oil imperium,, the drilling is unplayable cuz of the speed,, i have a rasp pie 3 and its the same problem there, or i might be input lag from the controller.. im intrigued by this and might try it, i still got my old a 600 but after trying to get a mem card hdd in it, my software was corrupt so i left it att that. this looks so good, but again, having a joystick or simmilar that works is also a problem

Dient expect a Bad Obsession Motorsport Mug here...

Just got a Pi 400 and really impressed with it. I put PiMiga on it and it works so well. Runs everything smoothly and quickly. Will be my new thing to take with me when travelling with work to keep me entertained in hotels :)

Wow did you just compared an Amiga with a Atari? LOL

I just tried Retropie on a Pi 400. I noticed that Amiberry had a full second of audio lag in all games (WHDLoad lha's). Googling the issue it seems like a very common issue that they aren't in a rush to fix. As a newbie I also felt confused by configuration files in the Amiberry interface and making changes stick.

Mouse? you call that a mouse? This is a mouse! Crocodile Dundee reviews Pi Mice. :-)

Which version of Mame did you install?
It looks to run great on the Pi 400.

Which Mame Rom set version did you need to use?

The only fault with the 400 is unlike all the other pi it doesn't have an Audio Jack why they left this out I'm not sure not all of us have a monitor with speakers built in

If only setting up Retropie was easy, the only time I judge it a success is is when my Pi doesn't end up being thrown out of the window. Great video though xD

check out pimiga

It is as if the PI-400 is the new low cost Amiga. It really have taken off as such a machine. Hardware wise, I see it more as a modern version of the Acorn Archimedes. Basically an Archimedes that does solid Amiga emulation.

Ive been trying to install retropie for a week and everyone says its easy. Maybe for computer guys but laymen need a slow step by step. As far as I can tell I cant even download an imager correctly. Lol

I just want to play games I grew up on.

Amiga is the classic rock of the computer world, and Raspberry Pi is that cheap Strat guitar that you bust out the Led Zep riffs on!!

Man did I spend a lot of time playing Pinball Dreams on my Amiga 1000.

Love the Outrun outro :-)

Haha.. some nice modal chords in the pinball music.

Be good to see 8gb model as they have done with the Pi4

First. Great video. What I write below is a bit tongue in cheek. But the bit about me giving upon Retropie and renovating a real A1200 is true. (and finding it easier to do than setting up games on Retropie is also true - maybe that's just me)
The thing is. Once you get going you then have to spend about 40 minutes with each game configuring it through the Pi Linux interface.
Menu nested under menu nested under menu.
Every alteration requiring enter a menu tree several clicks long, with duplicated menu descriptions, misleading menu descriptions and no standardisation on how each menu level functions.
- Page of options... Scroll down one click at a time...click the option.
- Another page of options. Scroll down one click at a time... Click one.
- Another page of options that seems to include the last option you clicked again... click one.
- Choose the model of Amiga you want.
- Click 3x to get out.
- Damn it didn't save.

Ok start again click click click.
Ok - after 5 minutes you have the Amiga model...
Menu. Click
Menu. Click
Menu. Click
Now how much Fast Ram?
...
...
Start again
Then what Workbench is it?
Start again
What control method do you want.. Oh god not the bloody awful joystick configuration "Press a button for left" Press a button for right".. "No the other right"

FINALLY
Ok boot up the game... Doesn't work. Won't tell you why it doesn't work
Give up.

With obtuse and misleading descriptions and a frankly arcane navigation system that leaves you exiting things you want to be entering and altering things you didn't mean to. Only to find that the game in question won't play at all on the the Pi anyway.

After repeating this for 2 or 3 games and getting completely frustrated - you boot up Amiga Forever on your PC - and the game just plays. First time. And on the very rare occasions when it doesn't a right click, edit and a few changes to the configuration tab - where everything is written in English not "muggle speak" and the navigation is "Right click opens. Click box to active options - press "Ok" to close and save" and you have an R9 format files that just work.
Every time.

More annoyance follows when you realise that although the Pi400 is cheap-sort of.
You can pick up a 6 year old laptop - that comes with its own screen, and is more powerful and plays everything just sweet - for less cash
And through Amiga Forever rather than through the Retropie "Designed with people with 4 PhD.s in computer science" is


Playing console games on Retro pi is simplicity itself. Easy. Almost all are click and run.
Setting up old 8 and 16 bit computers on Retropie for my money just isn't worth the time and effort.
To the point I bough an original Amiga 1200, cleaned it up, added an accelerator card, replaced the the Gayle chip.. and soldered a faulty PSU connector.
And found that far FAR easier than messing with setting up Amiga on the Retropie platform

I just do not get why they only gave it 4GB when they already have the 8GB PI 4 (bar soap size) model.

I have been having fun with my 400 but the HDMI cable is rubbish and way too short. I just wish that they just had just left it with one full sized HDMI port as I have many long HDMI cables laying around plus maybe include composite output for the ultimate retro experience.

ok it can play doom. But....but.. CAN IT PLAY CRISIS?

Matching colour spudgers. Very tasteful.

Dear Matt, Thank you for taking the time to produce such an in-depth discovery of this unique multi-role open-source hardware device. I feel people do not fully appreciate this very low cost package with endless boundaries. I enjoyed your adaptation to run Amigo. Yours Truly, Dr. Thomas Miller of Anubis, Egypt.

+1 for the BOM mug

Wow, that's amazing. Thanks for showing it off - I've only seen others do unboxing.

If only they were readily available to purchase in Australia. Still no stocks on hand.

Dang. You beat me to it. I just got mine and want to do something similar. Great video!

You could get far better boot times booting from a SSD instead, unless the 400 isn't capable of that, for some backwards reason?
Honestly, I don't understand all this hype about the Pi400 in the first place.
"OMG it's a ready-to-go computer!"
....that leashes you to the device itself with a corded mouse.
I guess what I'm confused about is how this is somehow so much better and more cost-effective than just buying up one of the hundred dollar range 4B+ starter kits in the first place?

Looks about the same size as my ZX Spectrum.

Can emulate a working Atari ST or STE?

I'm surprised they still bundle Minecraft Pi Edition... It is ancient.

So I did pay for the private access to the Amibian extended edition, and I must say I have been quite disappointed that there is no pi400 version yet. The work around is to run it on a regular pi 4, update then run on your pi400. Ridiculous. Was also saddened to see BM64 is not doing a pi4 version. I did notice that your screen was stretched vertically a touch when you were in piOS. Could that have been your monitor?

whoa, Matt has become a dark wizard.

I also wanted a 'nearly bare metal' quick boot into Amiga so I installed Dietpi which has an option to install and boot straight into Amiberry. I set up a 1200 with HD (and WHDload) and it works amazing, really quick boot. I use an Arduino pro micro as an adapter to plug my old c64/Amiga DB9 joysticks in, which completes the experience :)