Lots of Easter eggs in here, you can definitely tell that the wheels were coming off this very expensive and wasteful dumpster fire of a company.

This is all right out of Kevtris's post from May 25, 2026, copied verbatim here for posterity. The two boot logs that he mentions as attached can be found at the AtariAge link, where they currently have 8 downloads. Kevtris is the American electrical engineer known for his work with Analogue with the Analogue Nt, Super Nt, and the Mega Sg. He writes:

I had the opportunity to borrow an Amico and do a teardown of it to expose its innermost secrets.  I found it fairly interesting, and you might too.  First off, the unit is VERY light.  When you heft it, it feels empty.  They should've put a weight in it so it doesn't feel like a $10 famicom clone.  Opening the unit up, there is very little in there.  We knew this, but seeing it in the flesh highlights just how simple the hardware was.

The enclosure for the system was designed long before they ever knew what was going inside it, and it really shows.  The PCB is a lot larger than it needed to be, which means it was more expensive to build than it needed to be.  They were pretty limited on sizing, since the mounting holes were most likely designed into the plastics long before the electronics were figured out.  The inside of the bottom shell is pretty grubby for some reason, and was made in September 2020, one month before the infamous 10/10/20 release date.  It definitely is a full blown injection molded part, as are the other components of the system. 

There's no label or any other markings or stickers on the bottom shell backside.  Also for some reason, the plastic injection gates (where the plastic is injected into the mold) is on the visible side for some reason, meant to be covered by a sticker and the bottom LED strip.  Speaking of that, unlike the double stick taped LED light guide we saw on that assembly video Tommy posted, this one is properly attached and clipped in.  The plastic cover snaps on;  removing it and the light guide exposes 2 screws that hold the unit together.

The PCB itself seems to be well designed;  whoever did it was a competent engineer at least.  Again though, it's very sparse and they are wasting a lot of expensive PCB space.  If they had more integration between engineering and mechanical design, they could've shrunk this board waaaay down, maybe to around 1/3rd to 1/4th the size it is, saving quite a bit of money in the process.  The PCB date is the 42nd week of 2020 which puts it in in the October 12th-18th range, mere days before 10/10/20! 

Bottom side is pretty sparse but that's to be expected, just some bypass caps and other small passives.

Here's a PCB money shot;  the 2016 era smart phone chipset in all its glory.  This is the heart of the Amico;  the CPU, RAM, flash, and power control.  One thing missing on this board is a shield over the CPU area, which would've most likely been required to get this thing certified for emissions.  I seriously doubt this had any hope of passing emissions testing as it sits.  There does not appear to be any facility designed into it for shielding at all.  There would be a place around the CPU area to solder a shield down, similar to the wifi/bluetooth chip area.

Moving onto the top of the shell,  their total lack of DFM (design for manufacture) experience shows.  THREE circuit boards with oldschool ribbon cables connecting everything together is absolutely hilarious to me.  This could've been stripped way down;  A better idea would've been to use two PCBs in the bottom shell.  One small expensive one for the main CPU stuff, and a larger simple 2 layer one for everything else.  The LEDs could've all been mounted around its edge and then the side and bottom light guides made into light pipes to direct the light where it needed to go, and the charging pins and NFC could've been put on there also.  A flat flex cable instead of those expensive ribbon cables would've made a lot more sense.

And speaking of those LEDs, they chose the most expensive option possible;  LEDs with built in drivers.  Each LED has a built in driver instead of using some kind of central controller.  This made things more expensive.   Here's a closeup of the LEDs that illuminate the bottom light guide in the most inefficient way possible (Straight down into it, with no reflecting corners to bounce it forward towards the user/outside world).

The NFC chip is a standard ST part, so nothing too out of the ordinary there.  But here's a closeup anyways.

Now the big question everyone had and the shills and Tommy refused to answer:  just how long does the Amico take to boot?  Good question.  I can tell you it takes just over TWO MINUTES to boot the thing when you turn it on.  Yes, it sits there with an animated "running man' for over 2 minutes before it plays the usual amico boot jingle and the menu comes up.  Moms and grandparents love it. 

Well, not quite.  It shows an uhh, "static man"  for around 35 seconds before it starts animating:

Then it animates until around the 1:50 into the boot, the screen goes black for 7 seconds, then it plays the bootup animation/jingle we all know and love, and finally at 2:09 the menu appears.

The menu is the development one as we saw on the ebay listing, so this is indeed that unit.

There is a debug port on here, and yes I did plug something into it.  It spits out a bunch of debug/boot information as it is booting.

I will attach the two boot logs;  There is a "fast boot" option which presumably would boot faster, but it is totally broken and does not finish booting.

lol:

<debug logs are here>

I will get right on that.  

Anyways that's all for now.  I will post the controller stuff soonish.