At the time it was possible to buy the Amiga ROM files via the Android store for 1€ (if memory serves me correctly), but we wanted to buy 1000 licenses at a time as well as Workbench – so that the device would be legally secure and ready to rock out of the box. ![]() Amibian running on a PI-top, it makes booting into Workbench on a Raspberry PI like it was a real Amiga easyĪt the same time, Gunnar contacted Cloanto. I contacted a person I know in China and got a rough estimate on case prices (per 1000 units), and I also contacted the Raspberry PI foundation about buying 1000-by-1000 units and what sort of discount they could offer us. We spent the next few weeks defining our goal and concretize what exactly needed to be done with regards to hardware, case design and software. As we started talking it became clear that we both wanted to create a ready to use Amiga device, more or less the exact same thing as the Amiga mini that is now being sold (except ours would cater to both gamers and the creative type equally). ![]() Back in 2018 myself and my good friend Gunnar Kristjansson (the man behind the Amibian Linux distro for Raspberry PI) had a little Amiga meetup at my place. Before we get into the device itself, I feel I have to give a full disclaimer.
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