Commodore Amiga 600

[Reynolds]

I had 3 until now, the last is still on my desk at my parents. Found a spare one yesterday... I love how compact it is, with an A601 ram expansion and two CF cards (on e on the IDE, another with the PCMCIA) it's priceless. And noiseless too :P

[8bitbubsy]

EDIT: oops, I didn't notice these posts were one and a half years old...

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

I hope you don't really think that

Given that I was six when the A600 came out

I was 2 when the A600 came out

The guy I quoted below was almost -3 years old when the A600 came out

Originally Posted by sanDae

i stole the ks from my a1200 and tryed it in a600
clock dont work

That's nonsense. The A1200 has got two slots for the kickstart, and kick 3.x for the A1200 consists of 2x 256kB (2048 kilobit) ROMs while the A600 is 1x 512kB (4096 kilobit)... Which means that if you put the first part of the kick 3.x in your A600, the A600 would only address ... that chip! And that chip is half of the whole 3.x kickstart. Maybe it was enough to load up the very important modules, but I doubt it
Also the A600 kickstarts are 16 bits... Not sure about the A1200 ones, but I *think* they are 8 bits..?

[Jope]

It won't be enough to do anything, as the data is interleaved into the two rom chips.

[mikele]

A600 was first Amiga computer (X-mas gift in 1993). This Miggy was considered such a disaster since its early days, Amiga magazines gave it such a bad publicity, criticizing it for being outdated and so on. Remember having seen it on the top of "The worst amiga ever" list. My friends who owned A500/A500+/CDTV at the time ridiculed my Miggy just because of its lack of numeric pad, incompatibility with some old Kickstart 1.3 games, no upgrade options - "who needs this PCMCIA thing? haha".

Sure it was an epic win for me when one day I equipped it with Apollo accelerator, fast ram, cdrom and it outperformed my friend's plain vanilla A1200. Nowadays A600s are being sought here by former Amiga users who want to rekindle nostalgic memories - as these machines are fun to tinker with. You can install cheap CF disks, pcmcia lan cards and do some lite internet tasks like checking your mail, newsgroups, while most of aforementioned glorious A500's and CDTVs are gathering or biting dust. Who's laughing now? I always root for underdogs, hence this A600 dedication.

[Jimbo]

Originally Posted by alexh

I'm going to have a quick test but I could have sworn there are keyboard/Mouse alternatives for both Civilisation and F19

Long test this, are you loading from floppies?

[Retro-Nerd]

For Civilization: Yes, it works indeed with mouse right clicks in diagonal steps. Railroad Tycoon: No chance for buildings tracks in diagonal steps, you need the numpad.

[Amigaman]

I never had a 600 when they came out, but I always liked the look of them.

I think of them as commodores testbed for smt, more a sort of proof of concept. I have a couple now, and I use them as test machines for my cheapo hacks and tinkerings before I wreck a 1200. Its good fun trying to squeeze in a cd rom, card flash, and speakers.

I remember picking one up from a cash converters once. was in the pile of scrap (which didn't stop them charging me £10 for it!) on its own. worked just fine, and I used it as a basis for doing a tower conversion. My brother had whole load of old 2.5 hard drives from work they had chucked, 250mb each. That was a cool little project, had to wire up my own plug for the AT power supply.

Great littel machine imho.

[Cammy]

I wonder who else has an A600 with a working numeric keypad?

Here's an older photo of mine, I don't use an Acorn RiscPC as a monitor stand anymore though.

[Mad-Matt]

if I recall right, the A600 came with a version of Dpaint 3 which includes a Numpad emulator on the disk. This worked system for conform games too.

I tried to d/l some versions from the tosec archive on eab server, but the A600 versions doesnt seem to be among it. I wondered if it was included on the A600 version of f1gp too, but that versions isnt in that tosec archive either (3 disk carries 4 disk version labels which isnt right).

I wish I had made Images before my A600 headed for the skip :/

[Retro1234]

Theres a couple of numeric pad tools on aminet -I remember one that that redirected then to the normal numbers.

might help with some system friendly games.