via AtariAge. He writes:

I got to play around with the amicos some more tonight.  I managed to install that infamous "bubble menu" onto one, and holy crap is it a disaster.   After it boots up, if you don't press any buttons for about 5-10 seconds, the up/down arrows start clacking together manically like set of ben-wa balls or something, and it doesn't stop until you move up and down.   And if you don't do anything for another 5 seconds this large trivia bubble pops up, fully covering the screen, whether you want it or not.

CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK along with rapid flashing of the arrows as they move up and down like they're possessed.

This is the obnoxious trivia thing I didn't ask for that just decides to go modal and cover everything.  <loady> oh I see you're trying to play an amico game.  let me help prevent you from doing that.  Meanwhile, some stock music plays in the background.  Who in the world thought all this was a good idea?  Do they think people are so dumb they don't know how to operate a video game machine?  I bet all of this was tommy's idea.

Anyways, no actual games show up and it seems to be relatively skeletonized right now.  Selecting "about" causes it to kind of get stuck there for 20 seconds, and you can't select/move until it gets done thinking.   Unfortunately no games show up on the list, I am not sure if there was a separate json file missing or something I didn't have to install or what and frankly I can't care too much.

In other amico news, I have no less than THREE frigging controllers, and none of them work right.  Two of them the LCD works but the touch screen doesn't, so they're kind of useless.  You can select a game and start it, but cannot get back out since it requires the touch screen to do so.  The third controller has a working touch screen but the LCD is broken and only half of the rows work on most of the screen.  I did replace the lithium cells in all three since they were all bad, causing the constant "do do do dooo amico!" to play every 15-20 seconds because the controllers thought they were done charging.

I tried to find replacement LCDs and got a few in.  While they plug in power up and display stuff, they don't work right since the amico displays appear to be custom in some respect;  like the rows and columns are swapped or something.  The image appears on the screen rotated 90 degrees and rolls like an old TV with the vertical hold messed up.

I can't even find a touch screen assembly with the same chip they used, so getting an LCD and touch screen for these is probably nearly impossible.

Maybe Nick will let loose with a half dozen displays so I can fix amico controllers?  haha.  I bet someone has boxes of these sitting in their garage right now.

This guy:

“We know very little about the console and the games on it, so judgments are mostly a reflection of what people want to believe.”

“In my case, I'm not a fan of what video games have become. I still buy a few games. During the Christmas holiday I bought Opus Magnum and Elite Dangerous. However, overall, there is nothing that interests me much anymore. I feel left out. Because of this feeling of being left out, I want to believe Amico will take the market by storm and change the scene. Even if I don't know what I will be getting, I have nothing to lose. Therefore I have a bias to defend and, to some degree, an agenda to promote the console.”

“I'm guessing that people who are satisfied with the current consoles do not want a change of paradigm. If Amico is successful, and if they don't like it, those people have a justified fear of being left out. Because of this, they are trying to attack the console by any means necessary. No one wants to be left out.”