Commodore Amiga 600

[alexh]

The A600 advert was on terrestrial ITV/C4 well before the pre-cd32 ads. Targeted around kids tv and saturday evening.

CBM UK marketing, especially in the later years, was very good compared to the rest of the world.

[Magno Boots]

I've never seen a Commodore commercial either.

I do remember an episode of Bullseye that had an A600 on the prize board.

It was described by Jim as a 'Top of the range, nitrogen cooled personal computer'

I knew this was a wind up because the A600 wasn't top of the range at the time.

[FOL]

Originally Posted by alexh

The A600 advert was on terrestrial ITV/C4 well before the pre-cd32 ads. Targeted around kids tv and saturday evening.

CBM UK marketing, especially in the later years, was very good compared to the rest of the world.

Well obviously they were crap at it around the A600 time, cause I was no different from any average kid back then.

We would all gather round the tv on satuday nights and I used to watch CITV when I got home from school.

Never once seen 1 until CD32 as I said. I only knew about the A500, as it was the show piece of my dads computer shop.

Originally Posted by Magno Boots

I've never seen a Commodore commercial either.

I do remember an episode of Bullseye that had an A600 on the prize board.

It was described by Jim as a 'Top of the range, nitrogen cooled personal computer'

I knew this was a wind up because the A600 wasn't top of the range at the time.

See im not the only 1.

[Paul_s]

Originally Posted by Akira

Yes, I remember this too, it was some modifier keys and the normal number keys.

I *never* seen an intro! :O I got to check this game again!



All the A600 bashing in this thread always resorts to the same lame poor arguments. I am glad Alex is here to team up and debunk Everybody is like "A600 was shit A1200 was better", and as we all said, many times, timing was bad on Commodore's side, but if it wasn't for the fact that the A1200 was almost immediately available after the A600 launch, the A600 would have looked much better.

Expansions on the A500? getoutta'ere!

I'm not bashing the 600 Well I hope I don't seem to be

What I meant with expansions is that the 500 series has far greater options available - some of the 600 expansions which were produced back then are a pain to get hold of - accelerators a prime example.... Sure a lot of these expansions on the 500 may be obsolete or HUGE and not much use/relevant these days but it did have a longer run... you can't deny that

The 1200 was a more rounded/complete machine than the 600 and again had far greater expansion options available... the AGA chipset along with the faster CPU made it a better proposition. I'm not saying the 600 is a bad machine though!

Actually, I wouldn't mind owning a 600 some day, the 8mb expansion that has been produced would be cool alongside a IDE/CF mod with an accelerator (if i can find one).

[Bamiga2002]

Originally Posted by gordonbennett

ive owned all the AMIGA keyboard systems over the years and the CD32. But the 600 is my favourite. it was my 1st amiga so that probably explains why i have such affection for it.

reason for the thread is i just wanted to disuss all thing 600! is there anyone else around that loves the 600? and even uses as there main system now?
i would also like to hear from people who DIDNT like the 600 and why.

I used to have an A600 but it went bust. It was a cute little machine, i made a game menu to it for my little brother and used it myself occasionally too. I was surprised how easily it broke.

[Bamiga2002]

Originally Posted by gordonbennett

ive owned all the AMIGA keyboard systems over the years and the CD32. But the 600 is my favourite. it was my 1st amiga so that probably explains why i have such affection for it.

reason for the thread is i just wanted to disuss all thing 600! is there anyone else around that loves the 600? and even uses as there main system now?
i would also like to hear from people who DIDNT like the 600 and why.

I used to have an A600 but it went bust. It was a cute little machine, i made a game menu startup-sequence for it (with add21k ) for my little brother and used it myself occasionally too. I was surprised how easily it died.

I always felt a little fondness for it.

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Paul_s

What I meant with expansions is that the 500 series has far greater options available

Name some.

Originally Posted by Paul_s

some of the 600 expansions which were produced back then are a pain to get hold of - accelerators a prime example....

Now maybe, because their owners keep hold of them. But back then there was a range of makes at prices only a little bit more than their A500 counterparts.

Originally Posted by Paul_s

but it [A500] did have a longer run... you can't deny that

Sure, A500 was in production longer, there are more (in quantity), expansions available today. However most are covered by A600 base features.

Originally Posted by Paul_s

The 1200 was a more rounded/complete machine than the 600 and again had far greater expansion options available.

But it was almost 2x the price!

[Paul_s]

Originally Posted by alexh

Name some.

Oh gawd I dunno take ram expansion cards for example - lot more in terms of models etc. Obviously there will be more with the run time it had... Everything is catered for though I guess in terms of what it can cope with - both 500/600

I agree on the other points, it is a good machine to go for in terms of cheapness if you're happy with OCS/ECS type stuff

[Gordon]

Did you ever have one paul? a600 is not a machine you can appreacate from a far, its something you have to experience. Add it to your great collection I can see in your sig.

On a spereate note, i think I may have a go at fiting a 1200 mobo in a 600. Sounds intresting

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Paul_s

Oh gawd I dunno take ram expansion cards for example - lot more in terms of models etc.

Erm you can get lots of RAM expansion cards on the A600 by many different people. A601 by CBM, M601 by Marpet etc. etc. 10's of different makes of PCMCIA SRAM cards.

You could (in 1992) upgrade your A500 and A600 with RAM expansion cards both equally well. An A501 and an A601 were about the same price. An A590 + 2MB of RAM would have been slightly cheaper than 50MB 2.5" hard drive + 2Mbyte PCMCIA SRAM, but not by much.

Time to dig out some adverts of the time and take a look at prices.

[Paul_s]

Originally Posted by gordonbennett

Did you ever have one paul? a600 is not a machine you can appreacate from a far, its something you have to experience. Add it to your great collection I can see in your sig.

On a spereate note, i think I may have a go at fiting a 1200 mobo in a 600. Sounds intresting

No, I've never had one. I started out in 1990 with a 500... which lasted well until 1993. Although saying that I was looking this morning at the prices 600's go for on fleabay

I see Amigakit still do 600 ram expansions too - this is all that puts me off them, I'd like to try an Apollo or some other form of accelerator on a 600 but people keep hold of them with the 600! arrgh... someone make a new one

When the 500+ came out I remember holding onto my 500 as there wasn't much point (and there ware quite a few games that wouldn't work with it back then)... remember the same with the 600... and then the 1200... which I upgraded to.... whilst more expensive had a bigger change in terms of technology etc...

Do I really need more Amiga's? People think I'm nuts at work.

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Paul_s

I see Amigakit still do 600 ram expansions too

I don't think they do.

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by alexh

features.
But it was almost 2x the price!

After the drastic price cut, not from the beginnung.

[Paul_s]

Originally Posted by alexh

I don't think they do.

There's this one for extra chip mem....

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...0438a2b69ddd0f

Oh and the fastram option from that russian site - are they still taking orders for those?

[Gordon]

ive only come across 1 game that needs fast ram to run and thats swos. all my other HD games run on 2mb chip

[JACK98]

Originally Posted by Magno Boots

I've never seen a Commodore commercial either.

I do remember an episode of Bullseye that had an A600 on the prize board.

It was described by Jim as a 'Top of the range, nitrogen cooled personal computer'

I knew this was a wind up because the A600 wasn't top of the range at the time.

There was an A500 on prize board one night!.krypton factor in the 90s they used A600!

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Paul_s

There's this one for extra chip mem....

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...0438a2b69ddd0f

Which is sold out. (and has been for at least a year)

Originally Posted by Paul_s

Oh and the fastram option from that russian site - are they still taking orders for those?

Nope. Sold out.

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by Paul_s

some of the 600 expansions which were produced back then are a pain to get hold of

We are talking about BACK THEN, not NOWADAYS.
And if we talk NOWADAYS, the A500 is a machine nobody uses, expansion options are EVEN MORE RARE AND EXPENSIVE and still a bulky piece o shite. Best to stick to an A1200 rather than an A500.

This thread goes on and on in the circles of always.

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by Akira

And if we talk NOWADAYS, the A500 is a machine nobody uses, expansion options are EVEN MORE RARE AND EXPENSIVE and still a bulky piece o shite. Best to stick to an A1200 rather than an A500.

This thread goes on and on in the circles of always.

I don't think so. There are still a lot of A500 disk only users. They have no interest to use a HD or other hardware add-ons, besides a memory expansion or a second floppy drive.

[Amiga1992]

I would like to see statistics and pie-charts of that assumption, Retro-Nerd