Launching pre-orders Nov 2025

Release June 2026

Workbench is included!
Beneath a Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, Ruff ’n’ Tumble, Defender of the Crown I & II, the Turrican trilogy and The Settlers II, all pre-loaded and ready to play

A full size working keyboard
25 classic carousel games
Four save-slots per game
Play the games you own via USB-stick
Integrated workbench desktop
Multi-region HDMI video
Classic mouse and game controller

£149 / $189
https://retrogames.biz/news/thea1200-announce/

No word on the specs of the system, (highly likly Arm based and highly likely same kinda of specs as the A500 mini ) but the price does seem very good, considering you can’t get a A1200.net case and keyboard for that much and this come with that and the games and mouse/controller.

Interesting it comes with workbench, they don’t say AmigaOS, so again maybe legally they still can’t use Amiga in the branding but some how cleared up the use of workbench name.

Still a shame of lack of serious titles and maybe some love / show case of the demo scene.

Last edited by amigang on 24-Oct-2025 at 05:15 AM.

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amigang wrote: Launching pre-orders Nov 2025 Release June 2025

Wow, they figured out time travel. So come November, I will already have had it?

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Interesting it comes with workbench, they don’t say AmigaOS, so again maybe legally they still can’t use Amiga in the branding but some how cleared up the use of workbench name.

I guess they made a deal with Amiga Corporation after all... There was never AmigaOS, only Workbench

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There was never AmigaOS, only Workbench

Yes, they seem to have told Hyperion to go stick OS3.2.x and licensed Workbench 3.1 from Amiga Corp. Fair play!

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agami wrote: Quote: Launching pre-orders Nov 2025 Release June 2025 Wow, they figured out time travel.

Launching: June 2026

Well I think they have not much now, the competitors in the "Amiga Retro Market" will have time to react ...

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it is a rebuild of A1200 so it makes more sense to install plain 3.1 than to license updated versions that came later like 3.2

@BigD

Why would they want to license 3.2 from Hyperion?

Reasons for them not to license 3.2.

1) 3.1 is suffient for their needs.

2) Licensing 3.2 would probably cause legal problems.

3) 3.2 would likely cost more than 3.1.

4) If customers want 3.2 they can easily obtain it from another vendor.

Last edited by Rob on 25-Oct-2025 at 09:09 PM.

Load of pics and details
https://amigang.com/the-a1200/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Retro-Games-THEA1200/dp/B0G1L9Q7WK - Amazon Order Page

https://retrogames.biz/products/thea1200/ - direct from Retro game

I do wonder if the Caps lock will light up, plus it looks likely the Keyboard only going to be UK/US standard, QWERTY.

Side rant, I do find it odd that keyboards have some many different layouts, I get custom things like Pound symbol replace with Dollar and things like that but why on German keyboard are Z & Y move or AZERTY french layout. I visit my brother who lives in Belgium and I just cant use his bloody keyboard and same when he comes over now, he finds it hard to go back, why was this a thing!!

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https://amigang.com/the-a1200/

The article makes a lot of assumptions! How do we know know the Side Hacks/Software Mods will work?

Also, the Mini didn't run Amiga software like a high end Amiga "with ease"! Some blitter/copper intensive games run like on a 030/25 whereas others like Jim Power and Fast Food 2 never quite got there compared to a stock A1200, though the tweaks made by AGS 2.7 allowed the Arm SOC to get close! Other RTS games like Napalm run like an 060/100 AGA again on AGS 2.7, so I'm not surprised The Setllers 2 can be optimised to work quite fast!

5 USB ports and a 3A USB-A slotted (assuming that's right) power brick included out of the box would have sweetened the deal!

Still interested though!

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Pre-Order has started:

Be among the first to own THE A1200!
This is a pre-order item, with release and shipping starting 16th June 2026.
Order now to secure your unit — payment will be taken at checkout, and all pre-orders will ship as soon as stock arrives.

Last edited by OneTimer1 on 16-Nov-2025 at 07:41 PM.

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Why do they need the cash up front? They are treating this like a Kickstarter! There's a UK budget coming up....and Christmas!

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BigD wrote: Why do they need the cash up front? They are treating this like a Kickstarter! There's a UK budget coming up....and Christmas!

Possible reasons (IMHO):

Christmas business (but no new product)
Fear of competitors (A1200NG with case+keyboard)

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Not good enough IMHO! Why should we have to pay up front to shield them from the competition from AmigaKit?

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Why should we have to

We don't have to.

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Well they really should get the prototype finished and confirm the line up before they eat IMHO! Seriously, this feels more like a Kickstarter for a large case and keyboard for THEA500 Mini mobo!

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Your proberly right.

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We need to drill down on two aspects of this product:

1) Is there a SoC update from THEA500 Mini?

2) Does it actually have four USB slots for peripherals and controllers as advertised everywhere right now (one extra compared to the Mini) or have they just added the USB-C power slot to the roster to inflate the specifications?

I'm ready to buy this but I would be irresponsible to my church retro games club syndicate not to wait for this to be cleared up!

If my suspicions are correct, the use of the pre-order money to finish the prototype is reprehensible considering the economy! For all we know they are using the money to finish the A1200 full size case, to buy a large stock of custom keyboards/caps and to buy the remaining bundled game licenses while still using the original THEA500 Mini mobo without ANY upgrades!

We need clarification! THE400 Mini mobo upgraded to four game ports so there is no reason that this machine shouldn't have at least four USB-A slots out of the box. The A4000NG has been seen to run Jim Power with next to no slowdown despite the difficulty in emulating the copper/blitter for that game and THEA1200 needs to be able to do the same! This won't happen without a bump to the SoC used!

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