But you are taking about current Amiga Hardware innovations and advanced. Not sure what that has to do with AGS.

AGS isn't anything to do with Amiga hardware. It's a plug and play USB stick solution that instantly creates a bootable environment to access a frontend to launch its collection of 5000+ Amiga games, demoscene productions, magazines etc.

It's f.ex. for someone who has just bought an Amiga A500 mini and wants more than the builtin 24 games. You download the AGS image, copy it to a usb stick, plug it into the Amiga mini, boot it up and away you go.

It is literally a foolproof way to obtain a near complete set of game roms already tested, setup and easy to just load and go. And for most that's all they want a they haven't touched an Amiga since the 90s.
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It's similar to AmigaVision which I posted some time ago, which was formerly known as MegaAGS.
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Yes very similar idea behind both projects, but I think AGS has recently become better supported by its community and is the go to solutuon for owners of the A500 Mini, which is the reason I've looked at it. Especially as it does now integrate Pandory and Amiberry OS. It's pretty much plug and play.

AmigaVision seems to aim now ata technical side of fan running things like a MiSTer.
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I understand that H. - Not sure you understand what the guts of the mini Amiga 500 are though!

From the link above:

"A compact reimagining of the Amiga 500 home computer, featuring perfect emulation of not only the original A500 but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) of the A1200."

Oh yeah... Chipset Emulation....
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Yes I'm fully aware it's emulating an Amiga using hardware similar in power to a RPi3 or 4. The whole point of the mini isn't Amiga performance. It's just a plug and play device focused on gaming.

I like to collect all the mini systems that come out and mess around with them. Just a bit of great fun.

The AGS project is busy a free to download package provided as a Torrent and well supported so people can just copy it to a uab stick, plug it in and play some games and look at some demos. Nothing more.
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Slow typing in RAGE to save Spelling mistakes..... usb, not uab.....It's Chipset Emulation H.....

It plays like a bag of shit on an Emulated chipset....

CPU Emulation is something else entirely & yet, AmigaVision is better DC....

AGS is just pooey bs 4 me.
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Aw, low blow.... Pointing out spelling mistakes is only fun if you can make a pun or manipulate it into a humorously ironic misunderstanding.

I really don't think you are the target market for this, Kin. Some people just want the quick hit of nostalgia without diving deep into the actual innards of the device. I haven't been fussed with any emulation malarky since before 2010 when I pissed about a bit with winUAE, but I applaud the efforts of folk that have made it easy to play the games we loved as youngsters, just as I applaud the passion of those that really do want to preserve Amiga hardware. There's room for both!
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