"Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind THESPECTRUM and THEA500 Mini, has started accepting pre-orders for its full-size Amiga 1200 replica, THEA1200. It's not quite as snazzy as Valve's upcoming Steam Frame, but under the hood, they're both Arm64 computers running Linux and relying on emulation of a totally different CPU to run existing games. In July 1985, two much-loved franchises launched."
"The original Back to the Future movie was first. Later the same month, the original Amiga 1000 was announced. Marty McFly only went 30 years backwards, but now, 40 years after the movie came out, a new Amiga-compatible computer has been announced. Youtube Video THEA1200 - the lack of spacing there is intentional, to avoid any old Commodore trademarks - is a new full-size Amiga-compatible device, designed to be the same size and shape as the original hardware that inspired it."
Retro Games Ltd has begun pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size Amiga 1200 replica built to the original case dimensions and fitted with a working full-size keyboard. THEA1200 runs on an Arm SoC with Linux and relies on CPU emulation to run classic Amiga software, following the same broad approach used in RGL's earlier recreations. The device is presented as less ambitious than AmigaKit's A1200 NG, which installs a new motherboard into vintage cases and can control a physical floppy drive. RGL previously used a modified OpenSE BASIC ROM called TokenSE for THESPECTRUM.
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