The first-born: AMIGA 1000

Following the discussion on Libretro thread, I decided to test some ‘ambient’ solutions with the Amiga 1000 Retroarch Overlay.

My tipical design for the background layer is a top-down view: many beloved Commodore machines have embedded keyboards (A500, A600, A1200) and top loaders (ACD32) so all of the interesting elements are seen from a top perspective!

This is not the case for some of the PC-like models with a frontal customizable plaque and detached keyboard (A1000, A2000, A3000, A4000) so I preferred to avoid these, for design reasons and for their minor resonance (and diffusion) in the gaming fanbase.

Well, until now.

Of course I had to go creative to fill the gaps in the sides, but I think the final result is quite nice and works well with the horizontal responsive feature.

This design also includes the external A1010 floppy disk drive, as it was the perfect match for the Amiga 1000 (in fact they were interchangeable).

Some IRL photos for reference

Coming soon in Release Candidate 3 😉